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Here are the news headlines for Maine and New Brunswick for Friday, August 2.

Police have charged a 43-year-old Hancock County man with the murder of an accountant who had apparently been missing for more than a year.  No one had reported the man missing.

A report by Maine State Police says a 1930 firetruck was low on brake fluid when it crashed into an antique tractor, killing its operator, during the Fourth of July parade in Bangor.

TransCanada Corp. plans to move forward with its proposed west-east pipeline project, which would send over 1 million barrels of oil per day from Western Canada to refineries and export terminals in Quebec and New Brunswick.

An Indiana state trooper is thanking workers in Maine for saving his life. Jarrod Lents was shot six times during a shootout last month, but his ballistic vest stopped the bullets.

Officials in Scarborough are cooperating with a federal investigation into whether the town should be held responsible after a dog killed an endangered piping plover chick at a local beach. Read more...

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