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At the request of the Executive Branch, courts routinely dismiss private suits against sitting heads of foreign states. Congress has never ...
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AUGUSTA -- The head of the state workers' union said Wednesday that attacks against organized labor from Gov. Paul LePage and the Republican-controlled Legislature were pushing his membership to the brink of protests now unfolding in state houses in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana.
We're on the precipice," Chris Quint, executive director of the Maine State Employees Association, said. "We get flooded with calls everyday from our members asking us when we're going to take to the streets.
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Francis Achampong's parents spent most of their money making sure he and his six siblings received an education.
Their investment took him from his native Ghana to England and finally to the United States, earning advanced degrees in law along the way.
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Several Maine race car owners are hauling cars out of state in order to find a place to race this season.
This Saturday night, Jacob Dore of Sanford and Josh Cantara of Alfred will be among the field racing in the LATICRETE SBM 125 Tour- Type Modified Open at Star Speedway in Epping, N.H.
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West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Joe Miller is spearheading planning sessions today and Saturday for a June conference that will bring 300 top motor vehicles administrators and their families to Charleston.
Miller is president of the 17-state Southeast Region of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, or AAMA. The region stretches from Texas to Virginia.
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The documents leaked to The New York Times in March were shocking.
A collection of internal church papers outlined how, over the course of 24 years,...
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COLUMBUS -- Gov.-elect John Kasich on Thursday appointed state Inspector General Tom Charles as his new public safety director and announced Maj. John Born as superintendent of the Ohio Highway Patrol.
Kasich, who noted that the patrol had been infiltrated by politics in recent years, said, "My message to the patrol is: Get it together. You have a legacy. This is a pride-driven operation that represents the best of what we have in the state of Ohio.
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Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Tuesday that Ken Lund, the chief legal counsel in the Governor's Office, will become executive director of the Office of Economic Development and International Trade on Aug. 1. He will replace Dwayne Romero, who will return full time to the private sector as president of the real estate company Related Snowmass.
When Romero was named executive director in January, he announced that he planned to continue working part time at Related Colorado. That arrangement allowed Romero to keep his family in Aspen, while also fulfilling his new duties in the Hickenlooper administration.
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She said, 'Boo, I got cancer,'" [Melody Spann-Cooper] continued. "I was just devastated. I held it together to be strong for her, but when I got home I just hit the floor and lost it. She would go for ultrasounds, but didn't go for 14 months because the lottery kept her so busy. I know the lump kept getting bigger.
"I am convinced that she would have left here sooner, but she was so about planning her son's birthday party," Spann-Cooper said. "And I think that after she saw her son's birthday party went okay, she was like, 'it's okay, I can go home now.'
"You know, she would often say, 'we live great lives.' And we would say that to each other so often. [Lyn] was the brightest light I ever seen from day one that we met. She had an aura about herself that that you felt when she walked i...
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Resigns: In 2005, state ranked 15th in U.S. for infant shots
When Steve Nickell was hired as the immunizations-program manager for the New Mexico Department of Health in 2002, the state was next- to-last in national rankings for infant shots.