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Check out the news headlines and listen to the latest update for Wednesday, June 12.

A Georgia-based company that makes cedar shingles is planning to locate a manufacturing plant in northern Maine that will create 78 new jobs.

An accident involving a logging truck and a passenger car on Route 1 near Madawaska has claimed the life of an 83-year-old woman.

The cause of a fast-moving fire that destroyed a home across the street from the University of Maine at Presque Isle is under investigation.

RCMP say speed and alcohol were likely factors in a weekend ATV crash in western New Brunswick.

A bill that would allow Maine residents to carry a concealed firearm without a permit has been defeated in the state House of Representatives by one vote

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