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Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim downing U.S. Reaper drone, release footage showing wreckage of aircraft
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Two hospitalized after ATV crash near Solon
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From New York to Arizona: Inside the head-spinning week of Trump’s legal drama
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Hamas reviewing Israeli proposal for cease-fire in Gaza, as possible Rafah offensive looms
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Tornadoes collapse buildings, level homes in Nebraska and Iowa
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Vintage, collectible store to open on Main Street in downtown Waterville
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Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions
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Mills vetoes bill requiring developers of clean energy projects to work with unions
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West Gardiner man pleads guilty to child pornography charges
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Mills hopes money for Maine ‘co-working’ businesses will help bring, keep remote workers
MORE STORIES FROM MAINE, THE NATION AND THE WORLD
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April 26Officials in Augusta want to consider prohibiting or regulating a cannabis extraction process that uses flammable materials.
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April 26Police say Stephanie Lamoreau, 28, allegedly set fire to a vehicle on Alexander Road in Dresden on Thursday and was arrested Friday.
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April 26The bill aimed to reduce the tax burden for middle-income residents while also raising taxes on the wealthy, but Gov. Janet Mills said it would not provide meaningful relief and could create challenges for state budgeting.
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April 26Ancora Holdings Group is pushing for a new CEO at Norfolk Southern – but not because it wants the railroad to spend more on safety initiatives.
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April 26Most economists say the underlying momentum of the U.S. economy remains strong. But growth and jobs – which have been surprisingly sturdy – have generated little tangible benefit to Biden’s hopes for reelection.
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April 26Richmond School Board members decided against eliminating a position, but approved further budget cuts to get below a 4% increase.
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April 26Augusta- and Waterville-area arrests for April 19-26, 2024.
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April 26Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on 3 charges of producing child porn and 3 charges of enticement of minors for sex.
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April 26After 12 years in the Legislature, Sen. Matt Pouliot, an Augusta Republican, is looking forward to fatherhood, and to helping end Maine's housing shortage.
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April 26Maine state House majority leader says if Nebraska tries to help Donald Trump, Maine may act to boost Joe Biden
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April 26A portion of Farmington Falls Road, also known as U.S. Route 2/state Route 27, was closed after the crash.
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April 26David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, returned to the witness stand for a fourth day.
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April 26The newly signed law, which the governor proposed in the wake of the Lewiston mass shooting, expands requirements for background checks to include private, advertised sales and also updates the existing yellow flag law.
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April 26The Evening Sandwich Program in the basement of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville is a lifeline for Terri Cashman, 42, and her husband, who live in a garage.
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April 26Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.
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at 9:07 AMA 53-year-old woman from Albion was killed in the 4-vehicle pileup that brought southbound traffic to a standstill Friday morning.
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April 26Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, got a mixed welcome before speaking to party faithful, many of whom displayed support for former President Donald Trump.
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April 26A report released Friday by the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development says the state has hit some of its 2030 targets but has fallen short of 'where we need to be.'
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April 26The Manhattan district attorney's office isn't giving up, which means his accusers could be forced to retell their stories on the witness stand.
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April 25Reginald Collins, 59, turned himself in Wednesday after learning there was a warrant for his arrest.
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April 26Moving the station from its current location at Thompson's Point would reduce travel time and improve efficiency of the Downeaster service between Boston and Brunswick.
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April 25Wilton boys ages 15 and 16 were charged with assault Sunday.
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April 25The law, a watered-down version of the original legislation, requires health care facilities to post signs to let patients know that facility fees are being charged.
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April 25Two U.S. officials say Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia.
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April 26Travel to the state during the shoulder seasons accounted for 44% of the visitors, up 3.4 percentage points from 2022, according to a report from the Maine Office of Tourism.
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April 25A senior U.S. military official said Thursday the U.S. is on track to begin delivering aid using the new port and pier by early May.
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April 25It's hoped that political change will help quell the gang violence that has killed thousands.
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April 25The bill mirrors almost the same language from a so-called “anti-abortion trafficking” proposal Tennessee Republican lawmakers approved just a day prior.
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April 25Protests against the Israel-Hamas war continue to spread; dozens of students are arrested on other campuses.
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April 25Students search for salamanders and wade through a vernal pool during annual field trip
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April 26The park has been closed to the public since the Dec. 18, 2023 flood which damaged the park's bandstand, washed away benches and took chunks of earth as it went.
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April 25The Middle Bridge, which is being evaluated for rehabilitation or replacement, will be closed to address a piece of metal that's hanging down from the bridge deck.
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April 25A group of emergency medical personnel challenged the 2021 vaccine mandate, but the Maine Supreme Judicial Court says a state board had full authority to impose the rule.
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April 26Superintendent Jim Hodgkin is expected to present the budget to the Town Council in mid-May, and a public vote on the spending plan is scheduled for June 11.
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April 26A project to improve water quality for years to come at the popular lake is going swimmingly, the Worromontogus Lake Association reports.
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April 25Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan says the new rules are targeting pollution that's 'pushing our planet to the brink.'
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April 25The president is visiting the Syracuse, New York, site where Micron Technology plans some factories.
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April 25The rule is scheduled to go into effect June 19 for prepackaged food items and Dec. 1 for other items.
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April 25The former New York Yankee performed a work he composed in his second career as a classical guitarist.
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April 25For all the ridicule the tabloid received from “serious” journalists, Enquirer reporters hustled and broke some genuine news.
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April 25The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration; under then-President Donald Trump, the FCC subsequently repealed those rules in 2017.
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April 25The decision came as Trump, the presumed Republican candidate for president, spent the day in a criminal courtroom where he is on trial for hush money payments.
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April 25Former tabloid publisher testifies about scheme to shield his old friend Trump from damaging storiesAt the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a different criminal matter involving Trump, who has claimed that he should be immune from prosecution over his efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
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April 25The legislation that U.S. President Biden signed this week could allow Washington to widen its scope to target other China-related apps, such as the popular e-commerce platform Temu.
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April 25RSU 4 faces uphill battle to secure the funding it says it needs to ensure quality education for district students.
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April 25Farmington selectmen approved the purchase of a computer and two printers for the new cruisers.
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April 25The justices on Thursday took up for the first time whether a former president has absolute immunity from criminal charges for actions he took while in office.
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April 25The state Court of Appeals ruling reopens a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures.
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April 25Daryl Reed, the soldier whom Robert Card threatened during the unit's annual training, and Sean Hodgson, who was Card's closest friend, spoke for the first time in front of the commission investigating the mass shooting.
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April 25The new rules don’t take effect immediately. And they won't benefit everyone. So what exactly would these rules mean for America's workers?
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April 25A surge in imports, which are subtracted from GDP, reduced first-quarter growth by nearly 1 percentage point.
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April 25The bill, which the governor introduced, is unlikely to overcome her veto after lawmakers amended the legislation to allow farmworkers to be able to sue their employers for violations.
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April 25The indictment names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Trump won Arizona in 2020. The identities of the seven other defendants were identifiable based on descriptions.
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April 24Four soldiers from the Household Cavalry, which patrols the grounds outside Buckingham Palace, were thrown from their saddles.
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April 24The breakthrough came Wednesday when a second Republican joined all Democrats in voting to overrule the Republican House speaker, who has steadfastly blocked repeal.
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April 24Protesters have a unified demand for their schools: Stop doing business with Israel — or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza.
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April 25A rekindled camp fire burned nearly 2 acres on Mosher Hill Road, while a power line sparked a grass fire in West Farmington.
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April 24The endorsement adds to Biden’s considerable union support. The United Auto Workers and the United Steelworkers Union have both backed him.
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The new missiles give Ukraine nearly double the striking distance – up to 190 miles – that it had with the mid-range version of the weapon that it received from the U.S. last October.
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April 25Stacey Neumann has been nominated to fill an upcoming vacancy in the U.S. District Court when Chief Judge Jon Levy retires in May.
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April 25Maine Resiliency Center staff encourage people to come Thursday in support of the victims and survivors.
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April 25Officials hope to bring new business to Bay Street, build new affordable housing and curtail the impacts of climate change as part of the town's new comprehensive plan.
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April 24On Wednesday about 60 tents remained at the encampment, which appeared calm, with students going in and out.
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April 25A 14-year-old male also was involved in the early morning capture of suspects Wednesday and is being held in protective custody, according to Fairfield police Chief Tom Gould.
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April 24The five-year plan announced Wednesday includes auctions in 2024 and 2028 for areas in the Gulf of Maine.
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April 24About 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income.
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April 24Boeing’s financial woes continue, while families of crash victims urge U.S. to prosecute the companyBoeing is reporting a $355 million loss for the first quarter.
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April 24It was unclear whether members of the conservative majority were swayed by the Biden administration's argument that federal law overrides the state in rare emergency cases where a pregnant patient's health is at serious risk.
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April 24Klimt left the painting, with small parts unfinished, in his studio when he died of a stroke in early 1918.
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April 24The proposed $24.6 million budget for Regional School Unit 73 passed by a vote of 460 to 261.
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April 24The Biden administration is laying out more of its vision for decarbonizing the nation’s freight industry.
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April 24The president immediately approved sending Ukraine $1 billion in military assistance, the first installment from about $61 billion allocated for Ukraine.
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April 24The rule will also apply to refunds of checked-bag fees if the bag isn’t delivered within 12 hours for domestic flights or 15 to 30 hours for international flights.
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April 24States’ efforts are largely focused on identifying content produced using AI as opposed to controlling that content or prohibiting its distribution.
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April 26A University of Maine professor explains the factors contributing to an abundance of eastern white pine cones that grew on trees last fall and dropped to the ground over the past few months.
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April 24The U.S. House approved the package Saturday after months of delays, and it was passed by the Senate on Tuesday.
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April 24Versant Power opposes a shift to whole-house electric heat pumps from those used in one or 2 rooms, saying affluent homeowners and developers will benefit.
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April 24The appropriations committee is estimated to have as much as $11 million that still could be allocated, but it's unclear if it will meet again and if lawmakers could then act on the bills that get approved.