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Cumberland singer Julia Gagnon advances to top 10 on ‘American Idol’
After 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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Politics
Gov. Mills signs $430 million supplemental budget into law
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Nation & World
When red-hot isn’t enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level
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Nation & World
‘Help me, help me’: Bus driver stabbed, reviving fears about safety on public transit
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Nation & World
Jury: Railway contributed to 2 deaths in Montana town where asbestos sickened thousands
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April 22The 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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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.
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April 21He said Ukrainian forces lack long-range weapons of their own, as well as adequate air defenses.
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April 21Both the Biden and Trump campaigns have seen 60% declines in their average engagement per Facebook post.
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April 21His political committees have spent at least $16.7 million on legal bills so far this year.
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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 21The 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 21The Daily Grind's owner said the perpetrator appears to have pushed in an air-conditioning unit to get inside.
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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 21It was not clear if the Proud Boys entered the event, which was subsequently canceled because of severe weather.
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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 21The price cap for Medicare recipients was part of the Inflation Reduction Act. When it passed in 2022, it was scaled back by congressional Republicans to apply only to older adults.
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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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April 22Dancing with the Dentists raised money for Maine Resiliency Center, Veggies to Table, The Root Cellar and Mainely Teeth.
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April 21Many establishments are stretching their hours beyond traditional mealtimes, aligning with shifts in pandemic-era eating habits, finding effficiences and even bringing in more revenue.
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April 21The vehicle, driven by a suspected drunken driver, crashed into the party Saturday at a boat club in Berlin Township, authorities said.
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April 20The Natural Resources Council of Maine has criticized the plan, however, saying there aren't enough protections for wildlife.
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April 21Lewiston's planning and code enforcement department condemned the 490 Pleasant St. hotel for several violations including a nonfunctional fire alarm system, according to city officials.
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April 20The ceremony will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, 79 years to the day since the USS Eagle 56 was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Cape Elizabeth.