Maine jail frees wrong inmate named Ismail
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | yesterday
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Maine police are searching for a maximum-security inmate who was mistakenly released from the county jail....
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Maine jail frees wrong inmate named Ismail
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
PORTLAND, Maine -- Maine police are searching for a maximum-security inmate who was mistakenly released from the county jail.
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Rain, winds, record heat hit Northeast on same day
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
PORTLAND, Maine — A storm packing blustery winds and driving rain knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in the Northeast on Thursday before giving way to sunny skies and record high temperatures — all in the same morning.
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Rain, winds, record heat hit Northeast _ in 1 day
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A coastal storm with strong winds and driving rain has knocked out power to thousands in the Northeast, only to be followed hours later by sunny skies and record warmth....
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Rain, winds, record heat hit Northeast _ in 1 day
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
PORTLAND, Maine -- A coastal storm with strong winds and driving rain has knocked out power to thousands in the Northeast, only to be followed hours later by sunny skies and record warmth.
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Guard at Maine jail releases wrong inmate
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
PORTLAND, Maine - Maine police are searching for an inmate who was mistakenly released from the Cumberland County Jail in Portland. Police say 23-year-old Ahmed Ismail...
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Henry Rollins: Henry Rollins Announces Frequent Flyer Spoken Word Tour
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Henry Rollins may have slowed down his music career, but his duties as a spoken word performer haven’t abated. The former Black Flag singer has released countless spoken word albums and toured relentlessly, offering a mixture of amusing stories and poignant reflections on life. Rollins has assembled another set of dates for early 2010, dubbing them the Frequent Flyer tour. Never one to shy away...
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Anti War Protesters Prepare to Confront New War President
Tennessee Guerilla Women (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The women for peace at Code Pink are preparing to confront the new war president. Anti war protesters will gather at the White House tonight. Yet more anti war protesters will be at West Point when the new war president shows up to peddle his war tonight. Protests are scheduled at 40 cities including Allentown, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Columbus OH, Detroit, Eugene OR,...
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NCR: Fifty Catholic Dioceses Donated To Repeal Maine Marriage Law
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
From National Catholic Reporter's Chuck Colbert comes an utterly damning breakdown of Portland Roman Catholic Diocese Bishop Richard J. Malone's activities this year, as well as the increasingly visible political proclivities of the Catholic Church in the United States: Gathering money from 50 U.S. dioceses , the Portland, Maine, diocese contributed more than $550,000 to the campaign to rejected Maine's...
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Portland, Maine to hold tree-lighting ceremony
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The showcase holiday tree in Maine's largest city will be lit up Friday in a tree-lighting ceremony that marks the beginning of the holiday season.
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'Ghost' traps, long lost, keep catching lobsters
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
PORTLAND, Maine - Beneath the cold ocean waters off the coast of Maine, the nation's lobster breadbasket, lie hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of old wire lobster...
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'Ghost' traps, long lost, keep catching lobsters
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Beneath the cold ocean waters off the coast of Maine, the nation's lobster breadbasket, lie hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of old wire lobster "ghost traps." Lost over the years to storms, boats - even the knives of fishermen who've cut them from their buoys to settle scores - many of the traps continue catching lobsters....
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'Ghost' traps, long lost, keep catching lobsters
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
PORTLAND, Maine -- Beneath the cold ocean waters off the coast of Maine, the nation's lobster breadbasket, lie hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of old wire lobster "ghost traps." Lost over the years to storms, boats - even the knives of fishermen who've cut them from their buoys to settle scores - many of the traps continue catching lobsters.
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As fish move farther north, a focus is warming waters
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
PORTLAND, Maine - Fishermen have known for years that they have had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock, and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates in New England.
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50 U.S. Catholic Dioceses Contributed To Maine Marriage Battle
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A report just published by the National Catholic Reporter reveals that while half of the $550K donated by the Catholic Church to Maine's marriage equality battle came from the Portland Diocese, the rest came from 50 dioceses around the country. Portland Bishop Richard Malone brought in $86,000 in one fell swoop, from that infamous second collection take at Mass statewide. Across the nation, Catholic...
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