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Rare orange lobster caught off coast of Maine
The lobster was caught by Gregg Turner, a Scarborough fisherman.
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Books
Women of letters: Gov. Mills and her pandemic pen pal inspire new book
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Local & State
Coal pile in Portland raises environmental, health concerns as dust spreads to other properties
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Local & State
Two injured in head-on collision on Route 1 in Woolwich
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Local & State
‘Class of 2023 … we need you’
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June 4A U.S. official confirmed to the Associated Press that the military jet had scrambled to respond to the small plane, which later crashed.
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June 4The far-flung county with high poverty rates is searching for solutions to a lack of a comprehensive public transportation system.
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June 4The developments have prompted concern in the U.S., which has dispatched a slew of senior officials to counter Putin’s advances in an OPEC member that European governments are courting as a potential alternative to Russian energy.
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June 4The photo-sharing platform removed Kennedy's account in 2021 for 'repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,' and later in 2022 took down the account of his nonprofit, Children's Health Defense, for spreading medical misinformation.
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The decision by Arizona in the past week to limit residential construction in some parts of the fast-growing Phoenix suburbs is another major warning about how climate change is disrupting lifestyles and economies.
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June 4The Directors Guild of America (DGA) said its 'historic' three-year contract with studios and streaming services recognizes that AI cannot replace members' work.
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The announcement of Saariaho's death was posted by her husband, composer Jean-Baptiste Barrière, son and daughter.
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June 4Kristen Walker, a former chief White House correspondent who has been at NBC News in Washington since 2011 will replace Chuck Todd.
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June 4The massive Pride Month gathering marked a show of defiance this weekend in a state where librarians have been pulling gay-themed books off the shelves, teachers are no longer allowed to discuss gender identity or sexual orientation and many LGBTQ families feel under attack.
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As other Ukrainian units were fighting to expel the Russian occupiers from the country's east and south, the brand-new 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade was preparing for the next phase of war from a classroom at a NATO base in Germany.
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June 4With Republicans holding a nine-seat edge in the House, speculation about McCarthy’s vulnerability to ultraconservative House members intensified as the debt-ceiling accord emerged.
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June 4Sony Pictures' “Across the Spider-Verse,” the multi-verse spinning animated Spider-Man spinoff, sailed way past expectations, according to studio estimates Sunday, riding terrific reviews.
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The back-and-forth between the U.S. and China at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue was always expected to be fraught, particularly after President Biden’s administration declined to remove sanctions placed on Li in 2018 over his role in purchasing a Russian missile defense system.
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June 4Authorities worked to clear the mangled wreckage of the two passenger trains that derailed Friday night in Balasore district in Odisha state in one of the country’s deadliest rail disasters in decades.
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June 4The man, Jamie Bell, 42, was seen fleeing a home in Franklin on Saturday afternoon, Assistant Attorney General Adam Woods said.
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Among other legislation, the House has passed the Small Entity Update Act, to require the Securities and Exchange Commission to update, every five years, its definition of 'small entity' for the purposes of regulation.
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June 4The bill, by Rep. Jessica Fay, was voted unanimously out of committee
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June 4
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June 4Seasonal hiring is ramping up in the state, and wages are high. But young workers don't always take the top-dollar jobs.
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The Portland writing program held its 'Show & Tell' variety show fundraiser at the State Theatre.
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Families with medically fragile children hope that a bill awaiting votes in the Maine House and Senate will pass and allow parent caregivers to receive the same MaineCare compensation that hired caregivers get. Heather Johnson and Andrea Dole are mothers of children who need constant care and, as a result, can’t work themselves. Here’s a look at a small part of their lives. Photos by staff photographer Sofia Aldinio
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June 4For about as long as the clipping has been shared on social media, people have been trying to figure out if it’s true.
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June 3The City Council is scheduled to act Monday on a proposal to close a block of the Old Port street to cars on Sundays June 16 to Sept. 23.
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June 3The Ukrainian interior ministry said through its press service Saturday that of the 'over 4,800' shelters it had inspected, 252 were locked and a further 893 'unfit for use.'
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June 3Israel and Egypt have been at peace for over 40 years and have strong security cooperation. Fighting between the sides is extremely rare.
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June 3The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru’s capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing
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June 3The U.S. has been expanding its activities around the Indo-Pacific to counter sweeping territorial claims from China, including regularly sailing through and flying over the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea.
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June 3In the ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Parker wrote that the law violates First Amendment freedom of speech protections and was 'unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad.'
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June 3In the end, Democrats warily accepted new requirements for some able-bodied recipients in exchange for food aid. Republicans agreed to drop some work requirements for veterans, homeless people, and others.
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June 3A coalition of governments and environmental groups want to end plastic pollution altogether by 2040 by slashing production and limiting some chemicals used in making plastics.
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June 4No one was injured, and the driver was charged with driving under the influence, state police say.
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June 3The parcels range from more than 2,500 acres near the Appalachian Trail in Franklin County to 155 acres in Wells for trails and to preserve habitat for the New England cottontail.
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June 3The cause of the derailment was under investigation Saturday as the death toll rose steadily throughout the night.
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The former neurophysiologist and the chiropractor are among the lower-level members charged with seditious conspiracy.
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There's no guarantee Donald Trump will attend, since candidates participating must pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee.
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Smoke continues to pour into the Lower 48 states, compromising air quality.
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June 2The base was originally named in 1918 for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton, North Carolina.
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June 2Veteran Coach Clayton Jones was told not to return to the team a day after 7 seniors walked away from the sidelines during a game in which they were benched.
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June 2While the bill sponsored by Rep. Lois Galgay Reckitt, D-South Portland, would remove criminal charges for sex workers, customers would still be prosecuted, which is a sticking point for some engaged in consensual sex work.
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June 2The campaign is part of a deal reached with the governments of Colombia and the U.S. in April.
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June 2Last month's Kentucky Derby was marred by 7 horse deaths in the days leading up the Triple Crown race at the fabled track. Five more horses have died since.
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June 2Zachary Phach was 1 of 2 men charged with murder in 2021 for the shooting death of Matthew Blanchard 9 years earlier.
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June 2Cooley joined the Phoenix department in 1958 and retired 2 decades later.
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June 2The used-jet scavenger hunt is the result of an out-of-kilter industry, where demand far outstrips supply of airliners.
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June 2State police released more than 2 dozen emergency call transcripts related to an April 18 mass shooting, but many of the documents are so heavily redacted they provide no new information.
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June 2Traders are largely expecting the Fed to hold interest rates steady at its next meeting in 2 weeks.
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June 2There were no injuries and the mill returned to full operation by early evening.
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June 2The immediate change is a reversal for the Google-owned video service.
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June 4The outside investigation of Attorney General Aaron Frey's romance with a subordinate concludes that it briefly distracted agency personnel but did not tarnish the work or reputation of the state office.
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June 2Numerous Chase customers had posted on social media that their rent or bill payments were taken out of their accounts twice.
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June 2Gatun Lake, which feeds the locks, is suffering from a severe drought, resulting in weight limits and rising surcharges for vessels.
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The company is recalling certain Lincolns from the 2015 to 2019 model years.
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June 2Mark Walker cites a relative's ownership of 30 shares of the company's stock.
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June 4Richmond will vote Tuesday on its $2,912,556 budget, a $182,634 increase from last year that uses $621,156 in the town's undesignated funds to offset the burden on taxpayers.
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June 2In Ukraine, the army's commander said air defenses shot down more than 30 missiles and drones in a new round of Russian air attacks overnight.
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June 2Ryan Scallon, who is an assistant superintendent in the Philadelphia school system, will replace former superintendent Xavier Botana.
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June 3The train derailment is one of India's deadliest, killing more than 230 people and leaving about 900 injured.
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June 2In both chambers, more Democrats backed the legislation than Republicans, but both parties were critical to its passage.
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June 2No evidence has ever emerged to suggest that Pence intentionally hid documents from the government or even knew they were in his home.