MAINE:
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) - Senator Angus King has gotten a look at destruction caused by three fires that destroyed nine buildings. King says he thinks Lewiston residents will bounce back from the string of fires that put residents on edge and led to the arrests of 2 men and two 12-year-old boys accused of setting the fires. The fires over a span of just over a week in late April and early May displaced nearly 200 people.
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - Maine law enforcement officials are seeking the public's help in finding a 15-year-old girl who was last seen over the weekend outside her Glenburn home. Officials say they want anyone who may have seen a black Ford Ranger pickup or similar truck near Nichole Cable's home between 8 p.m. Sunday and 2 a.m. Monday to contact police. The area of interest is Route 221 between the intersections of Pushaw Road and Route 43.
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 sentence yesterday on 45-year-old Bernie Subocz of Manchester.
BOSTON (AP) - The top regulators of New England's flagging fishing industry are asking fishermen not to take out their frustrations at the onboard observers who monitor what they catch and what they throw back. The request came in an open letter to fishing permit holders Thursday, a little over two weeks into a fishing year that saw the fleet take painful cuts in catch limits.
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - State Senate Republican leaders remain skeptical about expanding Medicaid in New Hampshire under the federal health care overhaul law. Senate President Peter Bragdon told Medicaid chief Katie Dunn yesterday that the federal government made promises before to share costs with states for programs and didn't keep its word. Bragdon said he isn't sure he wants to gamble on expansion for fear the state will be stuck with a bigger share of the bill.
GREENLAND, N.H. (AP) - The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department has some new tools for groups working to eliminate invasive plants on the Seacoast. The Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, which is part of Fish and Game, is setting up a storehouse of specialized "Weed Wrenching" tools that groups can borrow. The tools are designed for manual removal of woody stemmed invasive plants such as glossy buckthorn, autumn olive, multiflora rose and honeysuckles.
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 sentence yesterday on 45-year-old Bernie Subocz of Manchester.
BOSTON (AP) - The top regulators of New England's flagging fishing industry are asking fishermen not to take out their frustrations at the onboard observers who monitor what they catch and what they throw back. The request came in an open letter to fishing permit holders Thursday, a little over two weeks into a fishing year that saw the fleet take painful cuts in catch limits.
VERMONT:
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Several Vermont hospitals are saying they'll to 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. And the new law is to take effect immediately.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - In a victory for open-government advocates, a new Vermont law will require police agencies to release records of their investigations. Governor Peter Shumlin tells the Valley News he will sign the bill into law soon. It will take effect in July.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that a man who has multiple drunken driving convictions can sue the state's largest hospital for drawing his blood at the request of police. Kelley O'Brien was brought to Burlington's Fletcher Allen Health Care after a 2009 incident in Shelburne. After surgery to remove a police-fired bullet, a recovery room nurse drew O'Brien's blood. He consented, thinking it was for medical purposes, but the nurse turned the sample over to police.
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.
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