Some worry the move might spur more commercial sex in Maine as pimps tell young exploited women ‘you won’t get in trouble because it’s legal in Androscoggin.’
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Lewiston immigrant staffing agency, Topsham foodie website win Top Gun LA pitch-off
They’ll head to the statewide finals in two weeks, pitching again for a $25,000 grand prize.
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Bates students support Palestinians, denounce college
Bates College student government and others decry decision to call police over anti-Israel graffiti as ‘a censure of student voices.’
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Alaska courts stymied by cyberattacks, delay hearings in Auburn man’s murder case
Pretrial hearings in Steven Downs’ cold case were postponed after breach in Alaska court system’s cybersecurity.
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Lewiston first in state to close schools Thursday for Eid
School superintendent says at least 40% of the city’s 5,000-plus students are from immigrant families, most of them Muslims.
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Androscoggin River upgrade delayed for at least a year
Rep. Ralph Tucker, a Brunswick Democrat, called it “a great idea” to put off consideration of the proposal in part because he would like to see upstream towns and industries included in the discussion about what ought to be done.
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Anti-Israel graffiti at Bates College sparks state investigation
Slogans were written in chalk on the side of at least one building on the Lewiston campus.
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Maine trial or error? Defendants finally going to face juries
Facing 10,000 more court cases than normal, Maine courts are gearing up for the return of jury trials after more than a year’s hiatus under the pandemic.
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Students want answers after St. Dom’s principal dismissed
Marianne Pelletier, superintendent of Maine Catholic Schools, said Tim Gallic was let go because of budget cuts that eliminated his position.
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Bates students seek ‘to defund and disarm’ campus security officers
A Friday rally aims to push college administrators to go further than this week’s decision to take away the batons carried by otherwise unarmed security personnel.