The column appeared in the Wall Street Journal Thursday, and Kavanaugh acknowledged there were “a few things I should not have said” during the hearing.
October 2018
Pot shop owners say recent break-ins illustrate security concerns
WATERVILLE — Daniel Hall went to his medical marijuana store last week and walked into what he described as a nightmare. A back window had been shattered with a rock and jars of marijuana and medical marijuana products — about $10,000 worth — were missing. “I was doing my thing and I was like, ‘Why […]
Lobster industry blasts proposed regulations intended to protect whales
Maine officials and members of the state’s lobster industry are blasting a new federal report on the endangered right whale, claiming it uses old science to unfairly target the fishery for restrictions. The Maine Department of Marine Resources, the agency that regulates the $434 million lobster fishery, and the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, the trade group […]
Maine news in brief: Police shooting justified, body found near tracks, more
Attorney General rules August police shooting justified ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The Attorney General’s office ruled Thursday that law enforcement officers were justified in shooting dead a New Hampshire man who led them on a brief chase before crashing his car. In dramatic dash cam video and footage from a private cellphone of the August […]
Police find a body near Kristin Westra’s home in North Yarmouth
UPDATE: A spokesman for the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office says a body has been found in North Yarmouth. This story will be updated. NORTH YARMOUTH – Police on Friday morning put up crime scene tape at a house half a mile from the home where missing teacher Kristen Westra lived. State police and Maine Game […]
Bath approves TIF spending to pay debts, improve roads, parking
BATH — Bath is pumping the more than $2 million it brought in through tax increment financing agreements into debt payments, roadwork and parking and traffic studies. The city has three tax increment financing agreements: the Bath Iron Works agreement, the Wingfarm agreement and the Downtown agreement. TIFs are a common financing tool municipalities use […]
Former busboy who comforted a dying RFK dies at 68
Juan Romero was 18 years old when Robert F. Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and died in Romero’s arms.
Fake Craiglist ad prompts crowd to loot Greene man’s property
The bogus ad said the everything on the property belonging to George Stanley was free, so people showed up to strip it, right down to the landscaping.
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to 2 fighting sexual violence worldwide
Denis Mukwege, a Congolese doctor, and Nadia Murad, a former captive of the Islamic State, were awarded the prize for their work to eliminate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
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