MAINE:
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Governor Paul LePage says the Department of Health and Human Services will run out of money to pay Medicaid providers in three weeks, and he's blaming the Democratic-led Legislature for inaction on his budget proposal. Democrats, meanwhile, are accusing the administration of financial mismanagement.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - A new memorial is being erected to honor Maine emergency medical services personnel. A groundbreaking ceremony is being held in Augusta today for the new EMS Memorial, which will be located between the law enforcement and firefighters' memorials along State Street. Construction begins next week.
BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - It's a busy day for college commencements in Maine. U.S. Senator Angus King is the keynote speaker at the University of New England's commencement at the Biddeford campus today. The university will award 1,450 degrees at the event. Commencement ceremonies are also scheduled today for Unity College, University of Maine campuses at Farmington, Fort Kent, Machias and Presque Isle, the University of Maine School of Law, and Husson University's Portland campus.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for bank robbery, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle and interstate transportation of stolen property. U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen in Portland, Maine, imposed the 188-month sentence yesterday on 45-year-old Bernie Subocz of Manchester, New Hampshire. He was accused of a pair of bank robberies in Wells and York in Maine in November 2011. He pleaded guilty.
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for bank robbery, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle and interstate transportation of stolen property. U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen in Portland, Maine, imposed the 188-month sentence yesterday on 45-year-old Bernie Subocz of Manchester, New Hampshire. He was accused of a pair of bank robberies in Wells and York in Maine in November 2011. He pleaded guilty.
HOLLIS, N.H. (AP) - Police say two men and a woman from Massachusetts are charged with attacking a man with a hammer and knife following a roommate dispute in Hollis, New Hampshire. Police say three people connected to 1 of the roommates returned to the home, identifying themselves as police officers early yesterday before attacking the victim in his RV. Police charged 53-year-old Ralph Doucette, 43-year-old Paul Carbonneau 57-year-old Cynthia Nagele, all of Lowell, Massachusetts. All three remained jailed today.
DURHAM, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire police say a motorist who presented herself as a good Samaritan who drove an injured pedestrian to the hospital is the same person who caused the injuries. Durham police say 38-year-old Michelle Blain of Barrington drove an injured University of New Hampshire student to a hospital Thursday night and explained that she'd happened upon the injured pedestrian. The student, 22-year-old Hieu Nguyen of Plymouth, Massachusetts, was treated and released. He told police he had no memory of the episode.
HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) - Two Connecticut River communities, one in New Hampshire and the other in Vermont, are celebrating the 250th anniversary of their founding. Haverhill, New Hampshire and Newbury, Vermont, were founded on May 18, 1763. And Founders' Day events today include re-enactors from the Revolutionary War in Haverhill and music, poetry and discussion in Newbury.
VERMONT:
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Several Vermont hospitals are saying they'll put off implementing the state's new aid-in-dying law, at least for now. And an official with a statewide hospital association says that's likely the case with most or all of them. Governor Peter Shumlin is scheduled to sign into law on Monday the bill allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it.
FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) - A 31-year-old Vermont woman arrested after a fatal crash in upstate New York has been convicted of drunken and reckless driving. But a jury acquitted Cassie Earley of Arlington, Vermont of manslaughter and homicide. Prosecutors say her blood alcohol level was 0.18% when she crashed into an oncoming car on July 29 in the town of Hebron, New York. That's more than twice the legal limit. The crash killed 83-year-old Vincent Muro Sr., of West Rutland, Vermont.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont's unemployment rate continues to decline. The seasonally adjusted rate dropped a 10th of a percentage point in April to 4%. That's the third lowest in the country. The national average was 7.5%, also down a 10th of a percentage point from March. In the state's 17 local labor market areas, the non-seasonally adjusted rates for April ranged from 2.9% in the Hartford area to 7.3% in Newport.
HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) - Two Connecticut River communities, one in New Hampshire and the other in Vermont, are celebrating the 250th anniversary of their founding. Haverhill, New Hampshire and Newbury, Vermont, were founded on May 18, 1763. And Founders' Day events today include re-enactors from the Revolutionary War in Haverhill and music, poetry and discussion in Newbury.
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