A judge finds that a member of the Penobscot Indian Nation was subjected to workplace harassment based on his race.
2018
Posted inNation & World, News
British police say Russian ex-spy, daughter poisoned with nerve agent
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are in critical condition, along with an officer who treated them.
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Watchdog report: Failed VA leadership put patients at risk
Secretary David Shulkin told government investigators that he did ‘not recall’ ever being notified of problems.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News, Politics
Maine critics throw cold water on Trump administration’s offshore drilling plan
The proposal to open 90 percent of the nation’s coastline – including the North Atlantic – to oil and gas exploration draws widespread opposition at an event held by federal officials in Augusta.
Posted inNation & World
Putin praises Trump as ‘balanced,’ says ‘it’s possible to negotiate with him’
But the Russian president also says the U.S. political system is ‘eating itself up.’
Posted inNews, Outdoors, Sports
Maine wildlife biologists propose 20 percent increase in moose hunting permits
Biologists cite excellent survival rates among the moose herd in northern Maine.
Posted inForecaster Sports, The Forecaster
Brunswick boy wins squash title
Gus Silverman, an eighth grader at Brunswick Junior High School, joined by his coach, Marilu Fortson, won the championship of the boys’ U-15 division of the first U.S. Squash Tournament last weekend at Portland Community Squash.
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Falmouth legion post wants to know: Who’d steal a WWII vet’s burial flag?
The flag was supposed to be delivered to the veteran’s widow.
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EU ready for a ‘stupid’ trade war if Trump insists on tariffs
Countering Trumps assertion, the EU Council president says ‘the truth is quite the opposite: trade wars are bad and easy to lose,’
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SMCC students hold vigil in S. Portland for school shooting victims
SOUTH PORTLAND — More than 50 students gathered on the Southern Maine Community College campus March 1 to pay tribute to the victims of the Parkland, Florida school shooting that killed 17. At the vigil, which was organized by the student senate, the names of those killed were read aloud and the tolling of a bell […]