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Emergency officials in Stanley, New Brunswick ordered around 35 people out of their homes and businesses last night because of flooding caused by a fast-forming ice jam on the St. John River.

A closed-door hearing is being held today for an 11-year-old girl -- the youngest person to be charged with homicide in Maine in at least three decades.

The RCMP detachment in Gagetown, New Brunswick is the first of possibly a dozen to be closed as a cost-saving measure.

A legislative transportation panel is set to consider a proposal to raise the speed limit to 75 miles-an-hour along a section of Interstate 295.

A South Portland lawmaker faces opposition as he presses to raise Maine's minimum wage to $8.50 per hour.

Maine is the first and only state to provide laptop computers to public school students statewide. Now Maine is negotiating a new contract that could be used by other states interested in following suit.

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