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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

$1.1B Maine transportation budget proposed

Maine's motor fuel tax will remain at 30 cents per gallon under a proposed $1.1 billion budget to pay for state highways and other transportation expenses, but the plan calls for elimination of dozens of open jobs. Full story

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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,