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Politics
Maine lawmakers discussing whether budget committee will meet again to fund more bills
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Politics
Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature
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Local & State
Skowhegan selectmen change planned baseball field surface to artificial turf in hopes of moving project forward
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Business
Google fires more workers who protested its deal with Israel
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Nation & World
NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet
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Local & State
Colby College plans a new residence hall on campus to house 217 students
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Nation & World
What to know in the Supreme Court case about immunity for former President Trump
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Nation & World
Tennessee lawmakers pass bill to allow armed teachers, a year after deadly Nashville shooting
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New England
Maine lawyer defending New Hampshire in youth center abuse trial attacks plaintiff’s credibility
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Local & State
State police investigating inmate’s suicide at Wiscasset jail
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Local & State
Maine reaches milestone for school-required vaccinations
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April 23The 22-year-old victim was allegedly chopped at multiple times by another man with an 18-inch rusty machete.
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April 23The House and Senate will come back to vote on any vetoes, which require two-thirds support to overturn.
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April 23Hannaford supermarket officials say to throw out Hannaford-branded 85% lean ground beef purchased between April 6-18 or return to the store for a refund.
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U.S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors under a rule approved by a federal agency, though the rule is sure to be challenged in court.
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More people are using so-called Earned Wage Access apps to get money to pay bills and buy groceries in between paydays.
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April 23Critics say the minimum staffing levels are unrealistic and an unfunded mandate that will further burden the state's nursing homes, many of which are at risk of closing or downsizing because of worker shortages.
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April 23The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce's 61st annual awards ceremony will be held Thursday to a sold out audience at the Waterville Elks Banquet Center where eight other awards will be presented.
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April 23If approved by voters, the district's budget would increase to just over $20 million next year, which officials say is fueled by rising inflation and the high cost of labor.
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April 23The printer's frame fills up the large building in which it’s housed on the Orono campus, and can print objects 96 feet long by 32 feet wide by 18 feet high.
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April 23If the court sides with Starbucks, it could make it tougher for the federal labor board to step in when it alleges corporate interference in unionization efforts.
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April 23The proposal drew significant debate in the Legislature this session as well as opposition from out-of-state Republican attorneys general who called it 'constitutionally defective.'
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April 23Prosecutors called the messages a 'deliberate flouting' of the court’s prohibition and requested a $1,000 fine for each one.
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April 23The Bowdoin College graduate has spent over a year behind bars.
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April 23Schools struggle with where to draw the line between allowing free expression while maintaining safe and inclusive campuses.
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April 23David Pecker is the first witness in Trump's historic hush money trial in Manhattan, where he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with payments meant to prevent harmful stories from surfacing.
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The measure passed the Senate in a bipartisan 22-8 vote but was never taken up in the House. 'We could have at least had the conversation,' said the bill's sponsor.
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April 23Aaron Skolfield defended his actions in an interview Monday and said Robert Card's Army superiors misled him about the threat he posed.
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A $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction.
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A tipline set up 26 years ago to combat online child exploitation is 'enormously valuable' but hasn't lived up to its potential.
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April 23Acadia Healthcare is under contract to buy 2 Old Point Ave., the former Taylor’s Drug Store, where it plans to open a behavioral health clinic offering medication-assisted treatment and other services.
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April 22After advancing to the Top 12 on Sunday, Gagnon sang 'Something in the Orange' by Zach Bryan on Monday night, earning a place in the top 10.
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April 23The budget bill includes funding for storm relief, investments in affordable and emergency housing, a new minimum wage for education technicians and school support staff, and more.
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U.S. health and weather officials are unveiling a new color-coded system to warn Americans about heat danger, and it will set magenta as the most dangerous level.
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Assaults on transit workers have tripled over the last 15 years, according to research from the Urban Institute, making it more difficult for public agencies to recruit and retain their workers.
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The 2 victims were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through Libby, Montana.
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April 23Clinton police said Damon Bickford, 40, had been missing since about 10 p.m. Sunday.
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April 22Chairman Lance Harvell of Farmington issued a verbal apology and a written apology to Keith Amato of Wilton on April 16.
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The federal government is for the first time requiring nursing homes to have minimum staffing levels after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed grim realities in poorly staffed facilities.
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April 22The final letter that George Mallory wrote to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago has been digitalized.
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April 22The opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former American president provided a clear roadmap of how prosecutors will try to make the case that Donald Trump broke the law, and how the defense plans to fight the charges on multiple fronts
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Her accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the 'Sex and the City' TV series.
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April 22Maine's programs are intended to bring solar power to renters and homeowners, rural and urban households and others that may not be well-suited for on-site solar.
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April 22Threats to election offices that have been an alarming consequence of Trump's false claims about his 2020 loss loom as a perilous wildcard for the thousands of local government workers who will oversee the election this fall.
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April 22The 60 funded recipients, including the Maine Governor's Energy Office, will serve 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities.
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April 22The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday put legislation requiring ByteDance to divest its ownership stake in TikTok on a fast track to become law.
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April 22A 3-year-old is expected to survive after falling from a Pierce Street residence, police say.
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April 22The proposed $13.7 million spending plan cuts a couple of positions, but adds some, too, Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said.
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April 22Randall J. Weddle, 61, failed in his appeal after the state's highest court affirmed his sentence as reasonable and not excessively harsh.
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April 22A group of 9 boys broke out of the building in South Portland in January but never left the grounds, police said.
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April 22Environmentalists say that in 5 years, regulators have adopted only 2 rules aimed at Maine’s Climate Law’s requirements, and not a single rule to scale back pollution from tailpipe emissions.
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April 23Nicholas Eckert, 32, of Norridgewock was charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon and criminal threatening for his role in the incident, which drew a heavy police presence, officials said.
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April 22Scarborough, Brunswick and Wells are among the communities in Maine that will get funding to conserve areas affected by climate change.
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April 22At issue is a federal regulation that changed the definition of a firearm to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun, so they can be tracked more easily.
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April 22Aharon Haliva, head of military intelligence, handed in his resignation. He’s the first senior Israeli official to step down over the assault by Hamas.
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April 22Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and could face four years in prison if convicted, though it’s not clear if the judge would seek to put him behind bars.
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April 22In California and other Western states, courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelter space is lacking.
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April 22The $18 million pilot initiative is meant to curb evictions. About 2,400 people and families will qualify.
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April 22UMaine schools are part of a national trend where acceptance offers are made to select students who never officially applied. So far, nearly 300 students who received the UMaine offers have enrolled.
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April 22On the strength of a Whitney Houston song, Gagnon inches one step closer to making the top 10.
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April 21The globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent became one of America’s longest-held hostages.
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April 21Xisen Guo, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, faces charges after a bust in rural Penobscot County. A detention hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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April 22Joy Cumming, 53, and her mother, Jean Robinson, 76, were found dead in December 2023 at the home they shared on Red Schoolhouse Road.
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April 21After an initial crackdown and decline, the rate of the powerful medications given to nursing home residents has ticked back up in recent years.
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April 21Embers from the lodge's large stone fireplace apparently ignited the roof Thursday night.
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April 21The decision, expected as soon as Monday, would mark the first time the U.S. has ever imposed sanctions on a unit inside the Israeli military and further strains relations between the two allies.
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April 22The mural, titled 'How Humanity Managed To Save the Planet,' was developed by high school students working with a local artist and completed Sunday by community members.
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April 21Vacation rentals are a popular alternative to hotels for those seeking kitchens, lower costs and opportunities to sample everyday island life.
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April 21The House swiftly approved $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies in a rare Saturday session as Democrats and Republicans banded together after months of hard-right resistance.
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April 21Analysts believe both Iran and Israel, regional archrivals locked in a shadow war for years, are trying to dial back tensions following a series of escalatory attacks between them.
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April 21Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from fighting elsewhere.
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April 22Districts such as Scarborough and others in southern Maine – where residents have balked at tax hikes – have few alternatives when they need to fund large construction projects.
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Lamont Flanders, 28, was stopped by a police dog after he fled from police who found that he had broken into a home on East River Road in Skowhegan, police said.
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April 22The driver and passenger of a pickup truck were seriously injured when their truck crashed into a ditch, hit a rock and struck a tree, according to the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office.
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April 22The competition was part of the 42nd annual State of Maine Sportsman’s Show held this weekend at the Augusta Civic Center.
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April 22A 3-year-old fell out of a third-story window at 116 Pierce St. on Saturday afternoon, according to police.
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April 20Maine's senior senator extended her unbroken voting streak – which dates back to the very beginning her entire Senate career – with her 9,000th straight roll-call vote.
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April 20The modified measure now goes to the Senate after negotiations that produced a compromise.
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April 20White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden 'will swiftly sign the bill.'
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April 20She plans to attend a fundraiser Saturday for the Log Cabin Republicans, an advocacy group for LGBTQ+ members of the Republican party.
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April 20The man, who police said recently traveled from Florida to New York, had not breached any security checkpoints to access the park.
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April 20The situation remains a delicate one for Biden as he gears up his reelection effort in the face of headwinds in the Middle East, Russia and the Indo-Pacific.
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April 20Israel's war against the Islamic militant group Hamas has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East, notably between Israel and Iran in recent weeks.
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April 20Russia’s Defense Ministry said that it had shot down a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet. It provided no details and the claims couldn't be independently verified.
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April 20A wave of interest in physical records, especially LPs, has helped keep the independent stores going, Chris Brown a co-founder of Record Store Day said.