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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
VOL. 5 NO. 54
PORTLAND, ME
PORTLAND’S DAILY NEWSPAPER
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Active shooter training pits officers against the unknown — Portland police run simulations. Story, photos, pages 8-9
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Spice now in crosshairs of Maine Legislature See page 3
Moms, lessons and loss The Portland Police Department held active shooter training at the Portland Ocean Terminal on the Maine State Pier on Tuesday, with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and support from the Maine Emergency Management Agency. The Tuesday exercises were the last in a string of 10 active shooter trainings conducted by the PPD that included all the department’s officers. (CRAIG LYONS PHOTO)
Kids pick up the pace with Maine’s biking, walking initiatives
Tale of an Irish famine ship
— Walking School Bus a hit;
see story, page 6
See Natalie Ladd, page 4
The Bicycle Coalition of Maine staged its Bike Swap at University of Southern Maine. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)
See page 15