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SEC orders former Cahill aide, Goldman Sachs banker to pay $100,000 civil penalty
The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered Neil M.M. Morrison, a former investment banker at Goldman, Sachs and ex-top state treasury aide to Timothy P. Cahill, to pay a $100,000 civil penalty, citing what the agency said was his role in a pay-to-play campaign fund-raising scheme for Cahill.
Can Boston be safe for bicycles?
http://imgur.com/Dkxas Forget about the mayor's race; one of Boston's toughest rivalries is the ongoing battle between bicycles and cars. The city has recently taken......
Starts & Stops
Helmet vending machines set to debut, and a cycle track in the works for the Seaport District
Last week was a big one for bike news, what with Boston Bike Week, a deluge of bike-to-work exhortations, and the release of the city's comprehensive bike crash report.
White Coat Notes
Clipboard: State’s Medicare windfall in jeopardy
A $250 million Medicare windfall for Massachusetts hospitals appears to be on the brink of expiring. The state’s congressional delegation is ...
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Tornadoes wreak havoc in US

Articles of Faith

Religious leaders working on interfaith service
Religious leaders are working with the governor's office to develop Thursday morning's interfaith service in memory of the Boston Marathon bombing victims.

In the Cards

Mohegan Sun adds Boston retail developer as partner in Palmer proposal
Mohegan Sun today announced a partnership with Finard Properties, a Boston-based commercial real estate investment and development company, to build a 300,000 square foot retail development as part of Mohegan's proposed casino resort in Palmer.

War and Peace

Top military scientist: building a cyber army with few qualified recruits
The Air Force has a message for computer geeks: send us your resumes. At least that is the word from Mark Maybury, a computer scientist at the government-funded MITRE corporation in Bedford who was tapped in 2010 to serve as the chief scientist for the US Air Force. The Lowell native and Chelmsford resident, who will return from Washington to his old job this summer, says the Pentagon is struggling to maintain its technological edge in the realm of cyberspace. And a primary reason is a lack of new talent. "If you told me I want you to hire 1,000 cyber guys tomorrow, I'd count up all my friends and might have 60 or if really lucky might find 100," he explained. "But 1,000?"

Science in Mind

Obscure University of New Hampshire math professor takes major step toward elusive proof
A soft-spoken, virtually unknown mathematician from the University of New Hampshire has found himself overnight a minor celebrity, flooded with requests to give talks at top universities as his work is debated and celebrated online by leaders in his field.
Boston-Power founder Christina Lampe-Onnerud joins hedge fund firm Bridgewater Associates
One of Boston's highest-profile energy entrepreneurs, Christina Lampe-Onnerud, is moving to Connecticut to join one of the world's biggest hedge fund managers, Bridgewater Associates. Lampe-Onnerud is a former Arthur D. Little scientist who in 2004 founded Boston-Power, a maker of lithium ion batteries for laptops and electric vehicles. The company attracted customers like HP and Saab. But Lampe-Onnerud dialed down her involvement with the company in 2012, after it raised a big new funding round and shifted much of its operations to China....
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Maine news

  • 6 Wyeth paintings fetch $2M at NYC auction

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Six paintings by the famous Wyeth family of artists have sold for just over $2 million at a New York City auction. (   05/24/2013 1:06 AM )

  • Court dismisses Nader suit against Democrats

    Maine'shighest court dismissed Thursday Ralph Nader's lawsuit against Democrats he had accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine and other states during his failed presidential run in 2004.(   05/24/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of the governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television screen. (   05/23/2013 9:08 PM )

  • Nader loses appeal of '04 ballots in Maine

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The state's highest court on Thursday dismissed Ralph Nader's lawsuit against Democrats he had accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine and other states during his failed presidential run in 2004. (   05/23/2013 8:29 PM )

  • AP, others fight for details in Maine girl's death

    BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- News organizations are challenging a judge's decision to keep the public from seeing details of how and why police believe a 15-year-old girl from Maine was killed by a 20-year-old man. (   05/23/2013 5:58 PM )

  • Veto of bill to pay $484M hospital debt assured

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- With the threat of a veto looming, the Maine Senate nevertheless gave final approval Thursday to a bill to pay off a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals while expanding Medicaid to tens of thousands of uninsured people. (   05/23/2013 5:37 PM )

  • 6 Wyeth paintings fetch $2M at NYC auction

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Six paintings by the famous Wyeth family of artists have sold for just over $2 million at a New York City auction. (   05/23/2013 5:26 PM )

  • Project would carry NY power to Mass. via Vt.

    COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) -- A Massachusetts developer is hoping to carry renewable electricity from northern New York to the New England power grid via a power line that would run under Lake Champlain. (   05/23/2013 4:13 PM )

  • Lisbon man gets 4 years for identity fraud

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A Lisbon man who used his own child's Social Security number in a scheme to illegally receive welfare benefits has been sentenced to four years in prison. (   05/23/2013 7:23 AM )

  • Winslow company accused of labor violations

    WINSLOW, Maine (AP) -- Labor groups have accused a Winslow-based aluminum trailer manufacturer of illegally firing employees for trying to unionize. (   05/23/2013 7:13 AM )

  • Maine man gets 35 years on child porn charges

    BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- A Charleston man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography. (   05/23/2013 6:05 AM )

  • Maine hermit's court appearance postponed

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- A scheduled court appearance for a man who lived as a hermit in the woods of central Maine for nearly three decades has been postponed pending completion of a mental health evaluation. (   05/23/2013 5:50 AM )

  • Signs to alert Maine motorists to turtle crossings

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Signs are being put up to ask motorists in southern York County to be aware of rare turtles crossing area roads. (   05/23/2013 5:03 AM )

  • Portland mayor meets with immigrant businessmen

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Portland's mayor is meeting with immigrant business owners to discuss the role that immigrants play in the city's economy. (   05/23/2013 4:33 AM )

  • Maine education commissioner visits Belfast school

    BELFAST, Maine (AP) -- Maine's education commissioner is visiting Belfast as part of his ongoing tour to observe innovative school programs across the state. (   05/23/2013 4:04 AM )

  • Murder suspect said to have known Glenburn teen

    A 15-year-old girl found dead in woods north of Bangor knew the man charged with killing her, her best friend said, contrary to early reports that before her disappearance she had headed outside her Glenburn home to see someone she had only recently met on Facebook. Kyle Dube, 20, of Orono, had been friends with the victim, Nichole Cable, for a couple of months, and they had made plans to see each other the weekend that she disappeared, said Tyler-Ann Harris, 16, who described herself as Nichole's best friend.(   05/23/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Maine lawmakers reject bid to repeal health care law

    The Maine Legislature has said no to a move to bar enforcement of the national health care law. The Senate agreed Tuesday with the House and voted to kill a bill that labeled the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 a violation of the US Constitution and null and void in Maine.(   05/23/2013 12:00 AM )

  • LePage vetoes Maine college tobacco ban

    Governor Paul LePage has vetoed a bill that would have banned smoking at all public university and college campuses in Maine. The Republican governor said in a veto message to the Legislature that ''Maine people can make their own decisions'' regarding tobacco. He suggested that people opposed to smoking bring forward a bill that bans tobacco altogether, rather than ''a patchwork'' of laws and regulations that dictates where tobacco can be used.(   05/23/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Bouffard named warden of Maine State Prison

    WARREN, Maine (AP) -- The acting warden at Maine State Prison has been named warden, state officials announced Wednesday. (   05/22/2013 6:49 PM )

  • Judge seals affidavit of Maine man in teen's death

    BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- Police laid out their case Wednesday against a man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in a wooded area miles from her home, but the details remained hidden from public view after a judge sealed a crucial affidavit at the request of the suspect's lawyer. (   05/22/2013 5:46 PM )

  • Path unclear if LePage vetoes Maine hospital bill

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Even though Gov. Paul LePage's office made it clear Wednesday he'll veto a bill to pay off a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals because of an amendment to expand Medicaid, Democrats professed hope the Republican governor will relent and considered passage a victory. (   05/22/2013 5:15 PM )

  • Veto of subsidy study upheld by Maine House

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- The Maine House has upheld Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a bill calling for a study of rental subsidies for people with intellectual disabilities. (   05/22/2013 5:09 PM )

  • Maine home sales jump 14 percent in April

    SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Sales of existing single-family homes in Maine jumped 14 percent in April compared to a year earlier, and the median sales price increased 4 percent, the Maine Association of Realtors said Wednesday. (   05/22/2013 3:36 PM )

  • Bill to tax political action committees killed

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- A bill in Maine that sought to raise state revenues by taxing political action committees is dead for this session. (   05/22/2013 1:22 PM )

  • Rule on lobbying for ex-Maine lawmakers enacted

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine lawmakers who look to take up lobbying after their state service would be subject to new rules in a bill approved by the Legislature is signed by the governor. (   05/22/2013 11:39 AM )