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Despite Success In Polls, Gay Marriage Still Facing Trouble

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 05.28.2012

NEW YORK -- Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in a...

Fire Aboard Nuclear Sub Injures 6

Patch | Robert Cook | Posted 05.24.2012

Six people have been injured in a fire on a nuclear submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine....

Launched by Australian Visionary, U.S. Peace Index Hits Year Two

Jim Luce | Posted 05.15.2012

Jim Luce

The U.S. Peace Index was launched last year with the aim is to further understand the types of environments that are associated with peace and its economic impacts at a more specific regional level.

Review: Dark Shadows Irritates

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.11.2012

Carole Mallory

Chaos, confusion and irritation best describe this forced gothic nightmare, based on the vampire soap opera from 1966.

PHOTOS: 5 Summer Road Trips On Half A Tank

ShermansTravel | Posted 05.11.2012

ShermansTravel

Over half of 2,500 Americans surveyed by the U.S. Travel Association said that an increase in fuel costs would make them rethink their summer road trip plans.

PHOTOS: 6 East Coast Beaches For Family Getaways

offMetro.com | Posted 05.09.2012

offMetro.com

If you feel like ditching the car and the same old beach retreats, consider staying at one of these delightful ocean-perched properties.

Owner Adopts, Outfits Disabled Dog In Pooch 'Wheelchair'

Posted 05.07.2012

Remaining active and optimistic, despite being confined to a wheelchair, Roosevelt-the-dog has proven to live up to his presidential namesake. Aft...

Maine Enacts New Mining Industry Regulations

AP | GLENN ADAMS | Posted 05.07.2012

Gov. Paul LePage has signed a new mining regulatory bill, but that doesn't mean mining is new in Maine. In fact, it has a long history in the state go...

When Global Warming Ate My Life

Shoshana Zuboff | Posted 05.02.2012

Shoshana Zuboff

A bolt of lightening crashed through the kitchen window, mowed me down like a freight train hurtling through my chest. Then came smoke. Fifteen minutes later we were out in the storm, watching in disbelief as our beloved home vanished in a towering wall of flame.

New Study Shows Violence Costing America Over $460 Billion

Michael Shank | Posted 04.24.2012

Michael Shank

The U.S. Peace Index is based on analysis of homicide, violent crime, policing, incarceration rates and availability of small arms data. With improvements in all five of these indicators from the 2011 to the 2012 USPI, the U.S. was found to be more peaceful than at any time since 1991.

In Race for US Senate in Maine, Record, not Gender, Matters Most to Women

Cynthia Dill | Posted 04.24.2012

Cynthia Dill

While you certainly don't have to be a woman to support women's rights, you do have to have a record of increasing the financial security of women and their families.

A Lifeline for Sea Life

Miyoko Sakashita | Posted 04.12.2012

Miyoko Sakashita

Sadly, the ocean's dark transformation has already started. Every hour, a million tons of carbon dioxide spewed from cars, factories and power plants rain down on the world's oceans.

Anti-Gay Group In Maine Seeks To Rebrand Same-Sex Marriage

Posted 04.10.2012

No Special Rights PAC, a new anti-gay group, has laid down roots in Maine, where its two founders are hoping to combat a pro-equality push that has le...

A Knitting Cruise

Susan Fogwell | Posted 04.10.2012

Susan Fogwell

On each sailing trip, 24 knitters gather on the 120-foot, two-masted schooner.

Steven Hoffer

EXCLUSIVE: On Missing Child's 2nd Birthday, 'It Is A Nightmare,' Her Mom Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Steven Hoffer | Posted 04.04.2012

Trista Reynolds can picture herself at this time last year, sitting around the kitchen table, eating cake and singing her daughter's first rendition o...

'More Than a Cupful' of Ayla Reynolds' Blood Found, Says Mom

Chelsea Hoffman | Posted 04.02.2012

Chelsea Hoffman

When Ayla Reynolds was abducted in December 2012, she was 20 months old. Her second birthday is in less than a month and it doesn't seem like she will be found. Sometimes in cases like these, the things that are not said are sometimes more noticeable than the things that are.

Obama: GOP Rivals Selling 'Fundamentally Different Vision Of America'

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 03.31.2012

PORTLAND, Maine — President Barack Obama accused Republicans of clinging to economic policies that preceded the Great Depression and the more re...

Amanda Terkel

Maine State Government Ad Making Fun Of Local Residents Accidentally Runs In Newspaper

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.29.2012

WASHINGTON -- The Bangor Daily News published a public notice on Wednesday from the Maine Department of Transportation (DOT) alerting the citizenry to...

Michelangelo Signorile

Fred Karger On NOM's 'Racially-Driven' Strategies And Document Leak

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 03.28.2012

The secret documents that show the divisive, racially-driven strategies of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) have received enormous media a...

Maine Senate Candidate Pushed To Pick A Party

Posted 03.27.2012

Angus King, the former governor of Maine who is running for Senate as an independent, is being pressured to announce which party he would caucus with ...

David Lohr

Man's Body Found During Search For Missing Maine Toddler

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.27.2012

A group of volunteers searching for missing 2-year-old Ayla Reynolds found the body of a man missing since 2004, according to Maine police. The dis...

David Lohr

Police Recover 80-Year-Old Man's Stolen Wheelchair

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.23.2012

Police in Lewiston, Maine said a wheelchair that was stolen from a man Sunday outside his home has been returned. According to family members, Dana...

PHOTOS: 6 Unique Small-Ship Cruises

BootsnAll | Posted 05.21.2012

BootsnAll

Small ship cruises aren't always cheap, but their prices are often comparable with big ship cruises and can offer more bang for your buck.

PHOTOS: 8 Wide-Open Road Trips

George Hobica | Posted 05.21.2012

George Hobica

Here are eight amazing shorter road trips that showcase some of the best scenery and wide-open spaces that America has to offer.

Ex-Governor Not Running For Maine Senate Seat

AP | DAVID SHARP | Posted 05.14.2012

PORTLAND, Maine — Former Gov. John Baldacci on Wednesday became the third prominent Democrat to bow out of the high-profile race for a U.S. Sena...