Immigration officials target Vt. farms
MONTPELIER (AP) -- Federal immigration officials are cracking down on Vermont dairy farmers asking them to provide records to prove their workers are legal.
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Maine high court rules against ATV rider
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Maine’s highest court has overturned a lower court judge’s ruling that a state law that authorized game wardens to stop all-terrain vehicle operators without cause was unconstitutional.
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BOSTON (AP) -- The Massachusetts unemployment rate fell last month for the first time in nearly 21Ž2 years as the job market was spurred by expansion in the science, health and business services sectors.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York’s top court ruled Thursday that gay couples legally married elsewhere are entitled to some government benefits, boosting stalled legislative efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.
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BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick urged the Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday to suspend its rules and stay in session as long as needed to pass an education-overhaul bill, but the House speaker balked.
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UNDERHILL -- The former captain of the Maersk Alabama says he has nothing to say about the second pirate attack in seven months on his former ship.
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CONCORD, N.H. -- New Hampshire health officials said Wednesday a child in the Pelham area has died from complications from swine flu, the third such death in the state.
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4 sickened in Maine by recalled beef
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine officials are reminding consumers to check their freezers for recalled ground beef after four people were hospitalized for E.
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VINALHAVEN, Maine (AP) -- Residents of this and a neighboring Maine island are now getting their electric power from three windmills that comprise what’s believed to be the largest community-owned wind farm on the East Coast.
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BOSTON -- Gay married couples suing the government over a federal law that doesn’t recognize same-sex unions say there is "no legitimate or plausible" reason for having a federal definition of marriage that excludes gay couples.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A federal grand jury in West Virginia has linked five more people to an international scam that allegedly tricked government agencies in several states, including Massachusetts, into paying at least $3.
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Vonage settles with Vt., 31 states
MONTPELIER (AP) -- Vermont’s attorney general says the state will receive $45,000 as part of a $3 million multistate settlement with Vonage Holdings Corp.
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