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A Maine couple  whose daughter was killed in a violent home invasion is in Washington, D.C. to meet with lawmakers to advocate for what organizers call "common-sense gun law reforms."

Former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna says developing the shale gas industry could generate more than $7 billion in royalties and tax revenues, bringing an end to the province's debt and deficit problems.

Mainers who shop online won't get off the hook on paying state sales tax. The legislature's Taxation Committee has killed a proposal to exempt the first one-thousand dollars of Internet purchases from out-of-state companies from Maine's five-percent sales tax.

The Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library in Presque Isle is launching  phase two of a major renovation project, after private donors raised  over $1.3 million.

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