May 2018
Kushner given security clearance
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s son-inlaw, Jared Kushner, has been granted a security clearance after a lengthy background check, a move that ensures the key White House adviser with a broad international portfolio can have access to some of the country’s most closely held secrets. Kushner, who serves as a senior adviser on the Middle East […]
Lawmakers to get briefing on Russia probe
WASHINGTON House and Senate lawmakers from both parties are set to meet with top intelligence officials today as President Donald Trump raises new suspicions about the federal investigation into his 2016 campaign. Trump is calling his newest attempt at discrediting special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation “spygate.” In recent days, he has been zeroing in […]
Irene L. Berube
BRUNSWICK — Irene Lydia (Poliquin) Berube died unexpectedly at her home on Thursday May 3, 2018. She was born in Portland, on August 16, 1946, the daughter of Roland Albert Poliquin and Sophie Marie Richards. Irene moved to CT in 1963 and made her home there for 53 years. She returned to Brunswick in the […]
Helen “Jean” Brigance
Helen “Jean” (Fowlie) Brigance, 68, passed away on May 13, 2018 at her home in Woolwich, Maine. Jean was the daughter of Helen D. (Colby) Fowlie and Albert A. Fowlie. Jean is survived by her husband and country dance partner, Dickey Leon Brigance, her brother Roy and his wife Kathy, and many nieces and nephews. […]
Off-book sales shut down Maine’s elver season early
State regulators are shutting down the lucrative elver fishery two weeks early after Maine Marine Patrol investigators concluded that off-the-books sales of the valuable commodity have pushed the statewide catch beyond the legal limit. Elver dealers and fishermen are supposed to use an electronic swipe-card system that allows accurate, real-time tracking by state regulators, but […]
Texas governor meeting with students, shooting survivors
AUSTIN, TEXAS The focus of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s meetings on school safety and mass shootings is shifting to those who have been closest to the recent violence, including students, surviving victims and even one person who grabbed a gun and fought back. Abbott called for the meetings after last week’s attack at Santa Fe […]
North Korea slams Pence as summit with Trump grows shakier
TOKYO North Korea has lobbed another verbal salvo at Washington ahead of an increasingly embattled plan for its leader, Kim Jong Un, and President Donald Trump to meet next month, calling Vice President Mike Pence a “political dummy” and saying it is just as ready to meet in a nuclear confrontation as at the negotiating […]
N. Korea demolishes nuke test site with series of blasts
PUNGGYE-RI, NORTH KOREA North Korea carried out what it said is the demolition of its nuclear test site today, setting off a series of explosions over several hours in the presence of foreign journalists. The explosions at the nuclear test site deep in the mountains of the North’s sparsely populated northeast were centered on three […]