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Posted inMaine, News
Victims of fatal crash in Clifton identified
Two cars collided head on after one crossed the center line Wednesday, the sheriff’s office said. One car rolled and caught fire.
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Posted inMaine, News
Portland mourns roughly 50 homeless people who died in 2024
More than 100 people carried electric candles, glowing with orange and white flames, in a vigil for those who died this year in Greater Portland.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
House approves funding bill and sends to Senate hours before shutdown deadline
The bill was approved 366-34 and now goes to the Senate, for expected quick passage.
Posted inElection 2024, News, Politics
Maine delays enforcement of campaign donor limits
The voter-approved restrictions on political action committees were to take effect on Dec. 25, but the state agreed to a 5-month delay as a legal challenge works its way through the court system.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Gov. Mills establishes task force to study potential impact of AI on Maine
The 21-member group will look at how to prepare the state’s economy and workforce for opportunities and risks related to the technology.
Posted inMaine, News
Top Maine Republicans renew calls to overhaul child protective services
Republicans leaders in the House and Senate seized on Thursday’s letter of no confidence in the Office of Child and Family Services director to criticize the Mills administration.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Westbrook student accused of making threats taken into protective custody
Police are investigating after several high school students were named in ‘threatening messages written by another student.’
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Man accused of killing Westbrook couple waives right to jury
Marcel LaGrange has entered an insanity plea in the slayings of Brittney Cockrell and Michael Hayter and has asked to be tried by a judge instead of a jury of his peers.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
Central Maine woman charged with murder of teen
Police say the body of a 14-year-old was discovered outside a Sidney home, after a woman reported in Androscoggin County that an incident had taken place at her home.