Here are the news headlines for Maine and New Brunswick for Friday, July 12.

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Police believe speed and alcohol were factors in a crash that killed two women near the Canadian border in western Maine.

Gov. Paul LePage is directing the state to examine the safety of Maine’s rail infrastructure in the wake of a deadly oil train derailment in eastern Quebec.

The Canadian government is denying allegations that it did not do enough to secure the release of a New Brunswick potato farmer who languished for more than a year in a Beirut jail after he was accused of shipping rotten potatoes to Algeria.

After a record breaking 58 pharmacy robberies in Maine last year, the federal government is stepping in to help.  18 Maine law enforcement officers were sworn in yesterday as special federal agents.

 

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