These are some of the stories central Maine is talking about today.

Today, some 30,000 runners will take part in the world's oldest annual marathon. It will be the second Boston Marathon since two bombs went off near the finish line in 2013, killing three people and wounding 260 others. (AP)

President Barack Obama is expressing condolences to families on the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, saying America will never forget those who lost their lives. In a statement Sunday, Obama paid tribute to the 168 people who died in the April 19, 1995, attack. The bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil until the Sept. 11 attacks six years later. Today is also the anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. That school shooting happened April 20, 1999 (AP)

Gov. Paul LePage's administration says the number of welfare fraud investigations and prosecutions have gone up significantly. DHHS says that it referred 81 welfare fraud cases to the attorney general in 2014, up from 10 cases in 2010. It says it has referred 35 cases to Attorney General office so far this year. The department added nine new welfare fraud investigators in 2011. It also implemented a hotline so the public can refer potential fraud cases to investigators. The attorney general's office prosecuted 27 welfare fraud cases last year, up from 12 in 2011. (AP)

The last part of the road work on outer Western Avenue in AUgusta is expected to resume tomorrow. According to the KJ, contractors on the state Department of Transportation project have been working since September 2013 to reconstruct a half-mile section of Western Avenue from Prescott Road to Edison Drive. The $3.8 million project was initially expected to be done in August of last year, but there were some delays. The project is expected completion being rescheduled until the end of June. (centralmaine.com)

Coast Guard officials are warning the public of the consequences of making hoax distress calls in the wake of a Maine man pleading guilty to the offense. Coast Guard officials say they respond to an average of 12 distress calls on a typical summer day in northern New England. They say 76 of the 464 distress calls logged in 2014 were never resolved.

The warning comes after a man pleaded guilty last week to making a hoax distress call from the shore in Vinalhaven, Maine in September. Authorities say the seven-hour search launched in response to the fake distress call involved 16 Coast Guard personal call and cost more than $30,000. Penalties for such calls are up to six years in prison and fines of up to $250,000. (AP)

Kennebec County’s proposed budget for the 2016 fiscal year would increase county taxes by 1.1 percent, according to the KJ, officials say that could balloon if the state returns jail control to Maine’s counties. Those projections are reliant on the state’s share of jail costs staying flat, something that’s in limbo as the Maine Legislature considers a bill that would dissolve the Maine Board of Corrections and return control of the state’s 14 county jails to the counties. Officials say county taxes could rise 30 percent if the bill passes.  (centralmaine.com)

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