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Maine lobstermen are talking about tying up their boats, and dealers are suggesting they haul fewer traps to get prices back up as the global economic crisis sends shivers through the state's signature industry. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

Wright Express Corp. is the latest Maine company to announce layoffs. The company says it is laying off 22 of its 730 employees. Twelve of the people work in the company's headquarters in South Portland. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

Gov. John Baldacci says he had a productive meeting with the owners and managers of the Katahdin Paper Company in Millinocket, which has been shut down indefinitely. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

Ralph Nader has opened a campaign office in Maine. Nader, a consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate, has opened an office in downtown Portland. His campaign says it is one of 22 offices being opened nationwide as part of its get-out-the-vote effort. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

Officials are investigating a hunting accident that left a 10-year-old boy with non-life threatening gunshot wounds after his father accidentally discharged a shotgun. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

A judge has denied a Canaan man's motion for a new murder trial. Shannon Atwood's defense attorneys had sought a new trial saying Justice Nancy Mill's guilty verdict could have been tainted because she knew a woman who previously had been abused by Atwood. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

Congress should help bring cell phone and high speed Internet service to rural communities across northern New England and New York as part of a wide-ranging plan to improve the area's weak economy, a study recommended Wednesday. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

An expert on smoking and health said Wednesday that R.J. Reynolds relied on suspect data to support its claim that smokers of its Eclipse cigarettes may face less risk than smokers of conventional ones. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

Police say a toddler found wandering near a busy road in Maine was quickly reunited with his mother, but the incident remains under investigation. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for his role in trafficking crack cocaine. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

(A $700 billion bailout for wall street, are you #$@&*% kidding me! These companies took a gamble and lost thats the way it is, they made there bed let'em sleep in it. Whats next does congress now reimburse everyone that loses in Vegas? How about a bailout for us taxpayers that are being pushed closer and closer to the poverty line by high taxes. Here is a question for you...

Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co. cleared another legal cloud hanging over its top-selling drug Zyprexa when it announced a $62 million settlement Tuesday, but several other storms are still brewing for the antipsychotic medication. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

Is Maine in Play or is John McCain Wasting His Time? The state of Maine is certainly a democratic leaning state in a normal election so given Barack Obama's decent lead in national polling one would think he could count on the electoral votes from the state of Maine. Through much of the summer the leads that Barack Obama had over John McCain were in the 15 or 17 point range, suggesting a...

Both Maine senators voted with the majority on the 74-25 roll call by which the Senate approved a $700 billion rescue package for Wall Street aimed at preventing a credit crisis. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

Westbrook police say a pair of 12-year-olds are suspects in the shooting of a school bus filled with children earlier this week. No one was hurt in Monday's shooting. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

A coalition of public health groups says Maine's immunization rates in 2007 fell to a new low, 82 percent. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.

A new specialty license plate with proceeds going to breast cancer research and programs is now on sale in Maine. Read more... Source: Boston.com -- Maine news Continuously updated Maine news from Associated Press and Reuters.