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LePage: Eliminate Maine's income tax

Gov. Paul LePage says he wants to completely eliminate Maine's income tax. Full story

Maine university tuition rates to be frozen

University of Maine System trustees voted Monday to freeze tuition rates for the upcoming school year at 2012 levels for in-state undergraduate students. Full story

Maine gas prices rise more than 3 cents

The price of a gallon of gas in Maine is rising, but not as fast as prices are going up nationally. Full story

Maine budget committee holds meeting

Some members of the Maine Legislature's budget-writing committee said Sunday they were surprised by the projected funding shortfall at the Department of Health and Human Services but Gov. Paul LePage was rebuffed when he tried to address the panel. Full story

Video: Sen. Snowe from outside the Capitol looking in

The long-time senator from Maine engaged in Congress' fight outside the institution because she didn't think there was a way to alter the political equation from the inside, she said during an Afternoon Mo Joe web-exclusive interview. Full story

Analyses paint portrait of aging Maine population

Newly released analyses of census data paint a portrait of a graying Maine population that will have fewer people entering the labor market in the years ahead. Full story

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$1.1B Maine transportation budget proposed

Canadian lobster protests revive memories of 2012

Maine wind turbine fire under investigation

Maine gas prices up 2 cents

Maine panel airs bipartisan tax overhaul bill

Robotic Devices to Measure 'Red Tides' off Northeast

Navy to award contract for up to 10 destroyers

Maine gas prices down a penny

Lewiston, Maine, call center to expand, add jobs

Bipartisan group showcases Maine tax overhaul idea

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  Olympia Snowe: A five-day work week in Congress is essential

Fmr. Sen Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book "Fighting for Common Ground," why it was important for her to leave the Senate and why a five-day work week for Congress is key to getting things right in D.C.

  4 affordable trips for your family

Laura Begley Bloom from Travel + Leisure shows off eight trips that you can enjoy with your family during summer vacation, including Jekyll Island in Georgia, Hidden Pond in Maine, and a beach escape in Saint Lucia.

  Daycare worker finds loaded gun in 4-year-old’s bag

Police say a worker at a family day care and pre-school in Maine went into the bag of a four year old boy looking for some clothes and discovered a loaded gun. NECN’s Marnie Maclean reports.

  Make a Maine meal: Scallops, berry frappe

Mark Gaier and Clark Frasier, chefs and owners of Arrows Restaurant in Maine, show Kathie Lee and Hoda how to prepare a scallop dish with pappardelle, marjoram, and roasted garlic, topped off with a fresh berry frappe for dessert.

  Sen. Collins latest to change position on gun control

Up for re-election in May, Sen. Susan Collins says she is being “besieged” by all sides in the gun control debate. She is expected to back gun control measures, which she acknowledged won’t be popular among some of the people in her state of Maine. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports.

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Chickens stand in their cages at Maine Contract Farming, Thursday, July 1, 2010, in Turner, Maine. New England's largest egg farm is taking steps to show it has improved care of its hens after reaching a settlement over allegations its birds were mistreated. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Christopher Knight
Christopher Knight

This April 2013 booking photo released by the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office in Augusta, Maine, shows Christopher Knight, arrested Thursday, April 4, 2013, while stealing food from a camp in Rome, Maine. Authorities said Knight, known as the North Pond Hermit and who lived for 27 years in the woo

Kennebec County Jail booking photo of Christopher Knight
Kennebec County Jail booking photo of Christopher Knight

Christopher Knight, 47, is shown in this Kennebec County Jail booking photo following his arrest on April 4, 2013. After almost three decades of living like a hermit near a pond in central Maine, where he supported himself by stealing food from nearby camps, a 47-year-old man was arrested last week,