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HOOP DREAMS: Portland Red Claws player Tony Bobbitt jokes with Devin LeBrun Monday during a clinic before a preseason Red Claws game in Augusta.
HOSPITALS RESTRICT VISITORS
MaineGeneral Medical Center is restricting visitors to its Waterville and Augusta inpatient hospitals due to the spread of the H1N1 virus throughout Maine.
Signature battle over tax reform
AUGUSTA -- Challengers seeking to stop the people's veto of a new tax reform law asked Monday for a list of the 56,107 names the state certified.
Waterville coke raid hits popular business
WATERVILLE -- Police and officials from several agencies searched four buildings in Waterville and one in Madison Monday, seizing documents and arresting five people on cocaine-related charges.
MONMOUTH Police panel mysteriously drops forum
MONMOUTH -- A meeting between the town's new public safety committee and beleaguered police chief was canceled Monday just hours before it was to occur.
BINGHAM School may close
BINGHAM -- Confronting decreases in state funding and declining student enrollment, Bingham and Moscow school board members will decide tonight whether to close Quimby Middle School.
BRIEFS
AUGUSTA -- The Planning Board meets tonight for a workshop session to continue working on rewriting the city's Land Use Ordinance.
Detecting a move from police officer
SKOWHEGAN -- Veteran police officer Kelly Montminy Hooper traded in her uniform blues on Monday for street clothes -- black slacks and a green blazer.
DISTRICT COURT
AUGUSTA -- The following cases were closed Nov. 12-18 in Augusta District Court:
Orchard would remain farmland with sale
READFIELD -- There's no guarantee it will remain an orchard.
POLICE
AUGUSTA -- An Augusta man is facing charges after allegedly entering a Gage Street home Sunday and causing a fight.
Driver hospitalized after crash on U.S. Route 202
MANCHESTER -- One person was taken to the hospital Monday after a crash between a tractor-trailer and a game warden's pickup truck.
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