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at 2:08 PMHeather Gammon was driving while impaired when she hit a utility pole on Powell Road about 11 a.m. Friday, police say.
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at 12:42 PMAuthorities were still searching for the four people reported missing.
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at 2:58 PMMore than 2,500 people have been killed or injured across Haiti in the first three months of the year as gang violence continues to surge.
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at 4:00 PMWho would and wouldn't show up was a point of intrigue about a meeting that critics said would be pointless without the presence of Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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at 12:19 PMTemperatures in the Mid-Atlantic and New England will likely peak in the mid to upper 90s next week, which is “nothing to sneeze at even in the middle of the summer, let alone this early in the summer,” said National Weather Service meteorologist William Churchill.
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at 12:12 PMA burst of corporate pledges to address emissions had sent a niche market, still only worth about $1 billion today, into a full-fledged rally.
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at 9:46 AMThe state has enacted the first state law requiring fossil fuel firms to pay for damages caused by climate change. Will it survive a near-certain legal challenge?
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at 9:34 AMRepublican senators’ embrace of the former president comes after years of ups and downs.
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at 9:24 AMKate disclosed in March that she was undergoing chemotherapy for an unspecified form of cancer.
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Running Tide, which raised more than $50 million from private investors since it was founded in 2017, fell victim to a collapse in voluntary carbon market prices, its CEO says.
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at 2:55 PMLeein Amos Hinkley, 43, was shot dead by police during the hourslong standoff on Russell Avenue in Auburn early Saturday morning.
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Although AI is increasingly used in agriculture in large swathes of the developed world, from China to the US and Europe, its emergence in poorer nations and for subsistence farmers is relatively new.
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June 14The woman suffered 'unknown injuries' in the fall from the seaside trail, a fire official said.
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June 14District Judge Sarah Churchill likely became the first jurist in the state to dismiss charges because a defendant's right to counsel had been violated.
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June 14The person on the scooter was transported to the hospital for treatment of injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
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June 14Record-breaking heat could affect millions across the Ohio Valley and East Coast with heat indexes over 100 reaching as far north as Canada’s Hudson Bay.
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June 14Many were happy to have good weather for the first day.
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June 14New Hampshire state officials have warned people not to swim in Tuftonboro and in Wolfeboro along Lake Winnipesaukee because of cyanobacteria readings.
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June 14Las Vegas shooting survivors alarmed at U.S. Supreme Court’s strike down of ban on rifle bump stocksThe Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a rapid-fire accessory that allows a rate of fire comparable to that of machine guns, was nixed in a 6-3 majority opinion.
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June 14His African National Congress party will now co-govern South Africa, marking the nation's first coalition in which no party has a majority.
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June 14In a letter earlier Friday explaining the decision not to prosecute Merrick Garland, a DOJ official cited the agency's 'longstanding position' to not prosecute officials who don’t comply with subpoenas because of a president’s claim of executive privilege.
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June 14White House officials say the 2 leaders work together well despite Meloni's views on abortion and her other conservative political views, which align more closely with Republicans in the U.S.
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at 8:53 AMThe building made famous by a 1965 Muhammad Ali fight was last sold in 2020, prior to the addition of dormitories for the Nordiques Academy and other renovations.
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June 14The vast majority of it went to replace income lost at 4 Maine farms struggling to overcome contamination, but the the Fund to Address PFAS Contamination will not release any details.
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June 14'We are working together and with others to address the pressing challenges of our time,' the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations said on the summit's last day.
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at 8:24 AMMembers of the National Shattering Silence Coalition, including former state legislator John Nutting, have urged the commission investigating the shooting to promote expanding use of Maine's progressive treatment program.
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June 14However, the House version of the defense bill, which cleared the House in a partisan vote on Friday, does not contain the Blast Overpressure Safety Act.
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at 10:31 AMDerek Pierce and Casco Bay are almost synonymous – he was its first and only principal, and the community-focused school was born of a vision he shared with an adventurous crew of founding educators.
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June 14Voters will be asked this fall whether Maine should change its official state flag from the current one based on the state seal to a simpler, pine tree design dating to 1901.
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June 14Faced with years of rising homelessness rates and failed solutions, city officials across the U.S. have been embracing rapid housing options emphasizing 3 factors: small, quick and cheap.
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June 14In a plea deal with prosecutors, a murder charge against Daniel Lafrenier was dropped to manslaughter in exchange for his guilty plea.
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June 14Concerts can increase that risk by increasing crowd density, as athletic fields are often converted into standing or seating room for ticket holders.
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June 14Boeing said the titanium was linked to shipments involving a small group of suppliers. Tests of the metal have indicated that the metal was the right kind of titanium for use in aircraft.
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June 14The Fed staying on hold raises questions around harmful foreign-exchange volatility and risks undermining progress on getting inflation down, according to analysis by Bloomberg Economics.
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June 14The event on Friday drew leaders from business, government and academia to talk about keeping Maine at the forefront of AI use and development.
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June 14The princess says she will attend Saturday’s royal Trooping the Color ceremony, which will mark her first public appearance since her diagnosis.
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at 3:15 PMThe holiday is Wednesday, but events start this weekend and run through the end of the month.
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June 14Judge Christopher Lopez approved converting Jones’ proposed personal bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation, but threw out the attempted reorganization of his company Free Speech Systems.
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June 14Francis said politicians must take the lead in making sure AI remains human-centric, so that decisions about when to use weapons or even less-lethal tools always remain made by humans and not machines.
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June 14Zacheriah Adams, 33, of Jay, was arrested after police laid down spike mats, causing the pickup truck he was driving to stop.
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at 11:09 AMNew guidelines outlining outreach to Native American Catholics was completed as details emerge of decades of widespread abuses inflicted on Native children at Catholic boarding schools.
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at 8:01 AMGov. Janet Mills vetoed a state-level ban on bump stocks earlier this year, one of several reforms passed in the wake of the Lewiston mass shooting.
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June 14Hamas is determined to end the war still standing, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to destroy the militant group before ceasing the fighting.
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June 14Such a deal appears a nonstarter for Kyiv.
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The downward trend is a reversal of the typical bump in prices following Memorial Day and the start of vacations for millions of Americans.
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Farmers are optimistic about this season after wet weather last spring hurt the crop and business.
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June 14Police have linked Timothy Riley of Westbrook and Kyle Allman of Hollis to robberies at a Waterboro bank Wednesday and a Buxton store last week.
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June 14There has been a modest increase in HIV diagnoses in Androscoggin County this year compared to the yearly average for the past five years.
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June 13The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with freight-railroad CPKC after 2 of its trains derailed with significant spillage that eventually flowed into the Atlantic Ocean.
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June 13Since Tuesday, over 20 inches of rain has fallen in some areas, with more predicted in the coming days.
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June 13The Hill summit marked a pivot point in the Republican campaign to recapture the White House, win the Senate majority and expand control of the House.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin says his committee has uncovered at least three additional luxury trips given to Thomas.
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June 13The appointment of the career Army officer, who was the longest-serving leader of U.S. Cybercom, comes as OpenAI tries to quell criticism of its security practices.
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A sweeping federal civil rights investigation says investigators found stark racial disparities in how officers in the Phoenix Police Department enforce certain laws.
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June 13The 1,600-year-old manuscript had sat unnoticed for decades. Experts say it may be the oldest written document detailing Jesus’ childhood.
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June 13Kimberly Sylvester will be on probation for a year and pay $500 in restitution.
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June 13White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the U.S. is working 'actively' to generate a path to a cease-fire deal following Hamas’ latest response.
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June 13Supporters had urged colleagues to pass the bill, suggesting that New Hampshire becoming the 25th state to legalize marijuana could be a tipping point for the federal government.
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June 13The CONNECT outreach van will start rolling on July 1.
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June 13Beyond discussing Ukraine, the war in Gaza and China's industrial policy, Pope Francis will become the first pope to address a G7 summit Friday.