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Maine’s public advocate criticizes state’s tentative settlement with Electricity Maine
Under the agreement, thousands of customers who were overcharged for electricity would be reimbursed anywhere from $10 to $4,000. But Public Advocate Bill Harwood says stricter sanctions are needed.
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Local & State
Man who died at Wiscasset jail was struggling with mental health, family says
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Arts & Entertainment
Cumberland singer Julia Gagnon advances to top 8 on ‘American Idol’
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Nation & World
Putin likely didn’t order death of Russian opposition leader Navalny, U.S. official says
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Lewiston-Auburn
Condemnation order lifted for Ramada Inn in Lewiston
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April 28The veteran anchorman left in bitterness in 2006, following a discredited report on then-President George W. Bush.
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at 7:11 AMThe attacks have caused fear and anxiety among LGBTQ people across the country, some of whom said they are now too anxious to use their local Planet Fitness or set foot in the locker room.
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April 28He has become a prominent voice for Arab American and Muslim voters, not just in Dearborn but across the country, who say that Biden has betrayed and dehumanized them.
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April 28The former president and the Florida governor have been on chilly terms for years and had not spoken since the primary season ended.
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April 28As more outages occur because of bad weather, a federal grant may help the grid better contain disruptions.
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April 28The university’s statement said the activities of the protesters had grown to a level that the school 'cannot tolerate.'
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April 28Students have dug in at dozens of pro-Palestinian encampments around the country.
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April 28Dozens of reported tornadoes have wreaked havoc in the nation's midsection since Friday.
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April 28An Israeli delegation is expected in Egypt in the coming days to discuss the latest proposals in negotiations.
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April 28Qatar, which hosts Hamas headquarters in Doha, has been a key intermediary and was instrumental, along with the U.S. and Egypt, in helping negotiate a brief halt to the fighting in November.
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April 28An evening normally devoted to presidents, journalists and comedians taking outrageous pokes at scandals and each other often seemed this year to illustrate the difficulty of putting aside the election and the troubles in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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April 28The jokes are the latest attempt to crack the code on how to clap back at Trump, whose own insult comedy schtick has redrawn the boundaries of what is acceptable in modern politics.
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April 28Since last year, a woman known as Magdalyna, has built 150 first-person view drones (commonly known as FPVs) and repaired hundreds of others, including Russian drones that Ukrainian troops collect after they crash on the front lines.
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April 28Earlier this month, the California character performers and the union organizing them, the Actors’ Equity Association, said they had filed a petition for union recognition.
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April 28Officials in Ukraine say Russian drones struck the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, setting a hotel ablaze and damaging energy infrastructure while ammunition shortages continue to hobble Kyiv’s troops in the more than 2-year-old war.
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April 28Others honoring her included Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Zoe Saldana and Mike Myers, who came on stage in disguise in one of the eerie orgy masks from 'Eyes Wide Shut.'
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April 28For China, Musk is a welcome antidote to the tough talk from U.S. officials, which played out most recently during a visit by the U.S. secretary of state. Li's remarks also reflect China's efforts to attract foreign investment to boost its flagging economy.
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April 28On Sunday, a group of neo-fascists marched through Dongo and placed 15 roses in the lake in memory of the ministers and officials from the Mussolini government who were killed there, according to video of the event by LaPresse news agency.
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April 28Employees increasingly find that robust workplace volunteer programs meet their desires for in-person connections, professional growth and altruistically inclined employers.
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April 28With over 60% of the world’s uncultivated land, Africa should be able to feed itself, some experts say. And yet three in four people across the continent cannot afford a healthy diet.
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April 28'Biden is the worst president in the history of our country, worse than Jimmy Carter by a long shot,' Trump said in a variation of a quip he has used throughout the 2024 campaign.
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April 28Some approved legislation still awaits action by the governor, and lawmakers will return for at least one more day to address vetoes.
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The Spring is in the AiR benefit was also a celebration of the Portland nonprofit's fifth anniversary.
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After the foodie favorite announced the closure of its Portland and South Portland shops, people were lining up to place orders. But one can't help but ask: Where were those customers before?
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Plus, the differences in how the Portland Museum of Art and preservationists are interpreting it.
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On May 6, the City Council will take up the question of whether the former Children's Museum at 142 Free St. can be demolished. Working toward an ambitious expansion, the PMA hasn't said what it will do if the structure can't be torn down.
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April 28'Feathers Over Freeport: A Birdwatching Weekend' lured visitors to the state park in Pownal, where up to 1,800 hawks might pass over the mountain at the height of the season.
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April 28On the second day of the party's convention, the GOP adopts a platform that takes positions on school curriculum, foreign policy and news coverage.
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April 27The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem's soon-to-be-released book, 'No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.'
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April 27The lawyer said he's scheduled to meet with Weinstein on Monday. He added that he plans to tell a judge when Weinstein goes to court on Wednesday in Manhattan that a retrial should occur after Labor Day.
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April 28Tie-dye clad hippies poured into Mercer by the hundreds to take part in the cash-optional event that featured bartering, blacksmithing and live music.
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April 27In an interview, Corey McKenzie, a lieutenant colonel and operations bureau chief for transportation authority police, provided a few new details about the deadly disaster and its impact on officers in the often-overlooked department.
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April 27The potential of psychedelics has bloomed in recent years as a treatment for mental health disorders and addiction, with technology luminaries and investors betting hundreds of millions of dollars.
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April 27Two weeks in, the first criminal trial of a former president has been personally taxing for Trump and disruptive to his campaign.
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April 27It was the fourth “large-scale attack” on DTEK’s power plants in a little over a month as Russia “seeks to cripple supplies of energy to millions of ordinary Ukrainian homes and businesses,” the company tweeted.
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April 27The most optimistic portions of of a day-long session by the University of Pennsylvania came as the ex-lawmakers discussed how some minor changes that require no political risk could start to create better incentives for a more productive legislature.
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April 27Early Saturday, police in riot gear cleared an encampment on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston while several dozen students shouted and booed at them from a distance, but the scene was otherwise not confrontational.
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April 27The Houthis said they shot down the Predator with a surface-to-air missile, part of a renewed series of assaults this week by the rebels after a relative lull in their pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
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April 27Sean “Diddy” Combs has pushed back against a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault
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April 27Biden won independents over in 2020, the first Democrat to win Arizona’s presidential contest this century.
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April 27One man was taken from the scene by LifeFlight of Maine and both alcohol and excessive speed were factors in the crash, according to authorities.
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April 27The week began with a moment for the history books, with prosecutors for the first time presenting a jury with a criminal case against a former American president.
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April 27It was not immediately clear whether Israel’s latest response to Hamas on a cease-fire was directly related to Friday’s visit to Tel Aviv by Egyptian mediators.
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April 27A tornado has plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions.
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April 26A hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors have collectively made millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of Donald Trump's Truth Social will keep dropping despite massive buying by his loyalists.
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April 26The decision infuriated anti-smoking advocates but could help the president avoid a political backlash from Black voters in November.
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April 26More than a dozen tents and more than 100 people filled the middle of Polk Place, the central quad on the main part of campus. The tents were decorated with signs reading 'Gaza solidarity encampment' and 'free Palestine,' among other sayings.
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April 26The bill would have required companies leasing state land for clean energy projects to enter into contract with labor unions.
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April 26The protest kicked off a day of drama at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po.
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April 26The announcement after 2 days of exhaustive negotiations comes as Columbia's president faces harsh criticism from faculty.
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April 26A Colorado judge has sentenced former paramedic Jeremy Cooper to probation. He had faced up to 3 years in prison for his conviction of criminally negligent homicide.
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April 26The 75-year-old monarch has taken a 3-month break from the public eye to focus on his treatment for an undisclosed type of cancer.
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April 27Eleven communal office companies – including 6 in southern Maine – were awarded a total of $500,000 as part of the Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan.
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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 26The new funding – the largest tranche of USAI aid sent to date – also includes the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, as well as Switchblade and Puma drones, counter-drone systems and artillery.
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April 26The restaurant, displaced by a fire in 2021, had faced operational difficulties this winter because of the chef's ongoing medical crisis.
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April 27Coffee By Design and baristas who are a part of Local 327 of the Laborers' International Union of North America have reached an agreement that includes 2 pay increases within a year.
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April 28The 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 26The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has concerns about changes Tesla made to the driver assistance system as part of a December recall.
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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.