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Maine’s pool of money from taxes on home sales is growing. How is it being used?
A tax generated by property sales helps power Maine’s various affordable housing initiatives, including a program that assists first-time home buyers and another to prevent foreclosures. Lawmakers are considering adding a new initiative to the list: funding homeless shelters. But deciding how to allocate the money is complicat ... (full story)
Tiger Woods says he'll seek treatment after pleading not guilty to DUI
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods said March 31 he is stepping away to seek treatment, four days after his vehicle crashed in Florida and he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. He will miss the Masters for the second straight year.
“This is necessary in order for me to prioritize my well-being an ... (full story)
Founder of 'orgasmic meditation’ company gets 9 years in prison in forced labor conspiracy
NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” was sentenced March 30 to nine years in federal prison for a scheme that a judge said exploited vulnerable women and coerced them into performing sex acts with the company's clients and investors.
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A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons
The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line.
Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dicti ... (full story)
How one family's bipolar disorder experience led to more than $1 billion for the Broad Institute
NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Stanley considers himself fortunate among bipolar disorder patients. He eventually responded to the right drug cocktail after self-described “full-brained mania” almost 40 years ago left him naked in a New York City deli, convinced electricity coursed through the floor.
Others face a longer ... (full story)