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State police investigating death of inmate at Wiscasset jail
Two Bridges Regional Jail confirmed a resident died Sunday morning, but released no other information pending an investigation by the Maine State Police.
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30 mins agoThe Biden administration released final rules this week on minimum staffing levels, but facilities here will have 2 to 3 years to staff up at a time when recruiting and retaining workers has been a challenge.
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39 mins agoThe 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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If 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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29 mins agoThe 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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at 11:37 AMProsecutors called the messages a 'deliberate flouting' of the court’s prohibition and requested a $1,000 fine for each one.
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25 mins agoThe Bowdoin College graduate has spent over a year behind bars.
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at 3:08 PMGlenn Stanley is facing arson charges after police said he deliberately set fires at 2 homes off Stanley Mountain Road.
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at 8:15 AMSchools struggle with where to draw the line between allowing free expression while maintaining safe and inclusive campuses.
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at 2:59 PMDavid 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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at 10:30 AMAaron Skolfield defended his actions and said Robert Card's Army superiors misled him about the threat he posed.
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at 2:59 PMAcadia 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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at 2:13 PMAfter 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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at 12:28 PMThe 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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at 3:21 PMThe city will close Baxter Boulevard to cars from Vannah Avenue to Catafalque Drive for the events every Sunday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. beginning May 5 and running through Sept. 29.
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April 22The hearing will resume Wednesday morning with testimony and closing arguments.
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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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The 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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April 22Alex Jackson, 34, had been missing for nearly a year before his remains were found Friday. Joseph Chute, of Leeds, had been arrested and charged with murder following Jackson's disappearance.
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40 mins agoAt one time, John Gendron eyed a 1,100-unit development on the site, but the proposal set off a communitywide debate over water quality that included a lawsuit between Lewiston and the Auburn Water District.
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at 8:35 AMCity officials issued a cease-and-desist order on April 12 after a finding spa was violating the city's Adult Business Establishment ordinance.
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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 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 22The red-and-white striped buoy drew a crowd Monday morning as the Coast Guard worked to return it to the water.
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April 22A 38-year-old Westbrook man who matched a description given by witnesses was found near the scene and a gun was nearby.
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April 22Nicholas Eckert, 32, of Norridgewock was charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon and criminal threatening.
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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 22Health officials said rules would protect the privacy of women seeking abortions from Republican prosecutors who have threatened to crack down on the procedure.
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April 22The concert at Woodfords Congregational Church had been rescheduled because of a snowstorm.
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April 22Two bottles of cherries, buried for about 250 years, have been found at Mount Vernon.
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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 22Fire crews battled two fires Monday morning, one a 3-story home on Main Street and the other a spreading garage fire on Bisbee Street.
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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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Greater Portland Health's medication-assisted treatment program offers shelter guests access to Suboxone in an effort to treat addiction and reduce deadly overdoses.
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A Boston native, he was a resident of Cape Elizabeth at the time of his death.
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April 21On the strength of a Whitney Houston song, Gagnon inches one step closer to making the top 10.
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The 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 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 main sticking point involves access to vital information about new threats that may emerge – and to the vaccines and medicines that could contain that threat.
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April 21A coalition of charitable organizations is embarking on the dangerous trip to highlight the lack of aid reaching Palestinians.
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April 21Robberies were reported Sunday morning at churches in Parsonsfield, Cornish and Baldwin.
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April 21The family rallied behind Biden last week in Philadelphia with a full-throated endorsement of his reelection campaign, pointedly choosing him over one of their own.
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April 21The jury selection process for Trump’s hush money trial created something akin to a national focus group.
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April 21None of the signatures collected by the PAC, including completed petitions for Michigan, Arizona, South Carolina and Georgia, were given to the campaign.