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Deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders sickens 49 people in 10 states
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Infections were reported in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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Election 2024
Harris outraised Trump nearly 8-to-1 in Maine last month
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Cops & Courts
As the Supreme Court considers federal ghost gun rules, legal experts say Maine should get on board
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Sports
Travis Lazarczyk: Portland is a minor league city, in all the best ways
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October 22Stefanie Damron was last seen walking into the woods on West Road in New Sweden in late September. At the time, she was 13.
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October 22Officials want a developer to turn 1125 Brighton Ave. into an affordable housing development to help meet the city's desperate need for housing. Neighbors vow to fight it.
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October 22Record-setting turnout includes Republican voters, who appear to be responding to former president Trump’s pivot from trashing early voting to encouraging it.
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October 22Community came together to remember, grieve and honor the 18 lives that were lost in a mass shooting in Lewiston last year. One of the victims, Joshua Seal, was a faculty member at the University of Southern Maine's American Sign Language program.
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October 22The artist said the mushrooms depicted in the painting are part of her mushroom-rich diet due to an autoimmune disorder, and are not psychedelic mushrooms.
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October 22Hashem Safieddine was killed in Beirut earlier this month in a strike that killed 25 other leaders.
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October 22The discussion is being held at the Benjamin Mays Center at Bates College.
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October 22Top-secret documents, which surfaced on the Telegram messaging app, contain intelligence on Israel’s potential plans for a retaliatory attack on Iran.
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October 22The Portland Fire Department says the PFAS-free foam should be fully installed in the airport's 3 trucks by mid-November.
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October 22Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea 'Shaye' Moss, won a $148 million judgment over Giuliani’s false fraud claims against them related to the 2020 presidential election.
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October 22Stealing political signs can be penalized with fines from $250 to $1000 and up to 6 months in jail.
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October 22The North Atlantic right whales are the most critically endangered large whale species on the planet.
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October 22Solar energy customers have been advised that Maine does not require homeowners to convert to solar and that the state does not offer incentives, grants, rebates or tax credits to install home solar panels.
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October 22The town is advising water residents to flush all water lines and faucets in their homes and discard food, beverages and ice made during the boil order.
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October 22The carbon monoxide leak occurred at a house in the Waldo County town of Freedom that had been raided by law enforcement agencies earlier this year because it was the site of an illegal marijuana growing operation, officials said.
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October 22The trend is forcing American automakers to reassess their sales and production strategies.
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October 22The aircraft take off and land vertically, like helicopters, but fly like fixed-wing planes.
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The trove of more than 2,500 silver coins that lay buried for 1,000 years will go on display in British museums.
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In its latest assessment of the global economy, the International Monetary Fund predicted that worldwide inflation will cool from 6.7% last year to 5.8% this year and to 4.3% in 2025.
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October 22They did so by traveling out of state or by having prescription abortion pills mailed to them, according to the #WeCount report from the Society of Family Planning, which advocates for abortion access.
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October 22Jeffries, his romantic partner and a third man were arrested Tuesday on charges of luring men into sex parties held around the world.
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57 mins agoThe Kiwanis Pool closed in August for construction, but a $5 million funding gap delayed the project. Now, the plan is fully funded.
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October 22It's rising to $15,000, up $400 from this year.
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at 6:42 AMThe Arundel Select Board met Monday night to discuss a recall election date for Kirstin Shapiro.
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October 22Sears Island is Maine's preferred site because the state owns a 100-acre property where a wind port would be built, avoiding lease payments at nearby Mack Point.
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October 22Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, is facing a tough election of her own, but is raising and funneling hundreds of thousands into other key races that could determine which party controls the Maine House.
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October 22Central Maine Medical Center staff came together to provide the most efficient care to those wounded in Maine's deadliest shooting.
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October 22Here's a look at the races attracting the most outside spending in each chamber.
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October 22The museum, which saw a surge in attendance this summer, has hired an architecture firm to study its space, so it can better accommodate programming and people.
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Shenna Bellows is advising voters to return their ballots via drop boxes or in-person in order to give themselves greater certainty that their ballot will be received and to lighten the load on the Postal Service.
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October 21The Maine Community College System had 21,385 students enroll across its seven schools this year, the system said Monday. Last year, the figure was 19,477.
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October 22The district's finance director says savings from grant-funded programs and staff vacancies will cover the contract with an accounting firm to reconcile payment issues with the state's public retirement system.
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October 22The council voted instead to go ahead with a pilot needle buyback program, which will be paid for with opioid settlement funds.
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October 21The changes were previously slated to take effect in January but have drawn criticism from lobstermen who say they could give Canadian harvesters an unfair edge.
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October 21Pennsylvania has the biggest Jewish population of any swing state, and any shift could have enormous implications in a state decided by narrow margins the past 2 presidential elections.
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October 21Social Security faces a looming funding crisis in an aging country, with trustees most recently predicting that the retirement and disability program’s trust fund will become insolvent in 2035.
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October 21The proposed rule would mandate that health plans cover over-the-counter birth control – including daily pills, emergency contraceptives and condoms.
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October 21Prosecutors said Donna D. Desrosiers collected more than $90,000 she wasn't entitled to.
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October 21Argentina's public prosecution is investigating the case – which is not uncommon when a death is sudden or unexpected.
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October 22Mark Dion kicked off Monday night's City Council meeting by apologizing for his vote last month, which he called 'a betrayal' of the city's Jewish community.
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October 21Heat pump sales, critical to the transition to clean energy, have slowed in the U.S. and Europe, even as other clean energy technology continues to boom.
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October 21Hurricane Oscar made landfall Sunday before crossing the island’s eastern coast as a tropical storm Monday with winds and heavy rain, leaving at least 6 dead.
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October 21The stretch of New Gorham Road in Westbrook and New Portland Road in Gorham was closed for nearly an hour.
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October 21The Harris-Walz campaign did not provide a reason for canceling the visit Tuesday, which it announced last week.
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October 21The Westbrook woman who had been working with Kimberly Moreau's family said she had a strong feeling there was something near the defunct bowling center on Elm Street in Jay.
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October 22Roger Arsenault, chairman of the Black Mountain of Maine board of directors, said the opportunity for a longer season would add to the bottom line and 'change our financial picture. We'll be more stable.'
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October 21Experts say young players, including Jacoby Grotton, 15, have helped revive interest in chess, with many learning to play from websites or apps.
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October 21As the world grapples with plummeting levels of biodiversity, Colombia is hosting two weeks of meetings for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference.
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October 22The law firm the district hired to investigate the allegations has interviewed players, but the 'specific details have not been shared with me,' Superintendent Richard Green says.
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October 21Voters in Arizona and Massachusetts will decide whether employers should be able to continue to pay tipped workers such as servers and bartenders a lower minimum wage than non-tipped workers.
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via Portland Press HeraldRight now, health insurers must cover the cost of prescribed contraception.
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October 21The project has taken two years longer than expected and went $1 million over budget because of soft clay that created dangerous conditions for workers.
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The mayor wants to lower the needle exchange rate, but others want to use opioid settlement money to start a needle buy-back program.
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October 21Economists say the country could face declining investment and higher taxes as the war strains government budgets.
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October 20America’s housing affordability crisis is weighing heavily on the nation’s most sought-after voters in places like Wilmington, N.C., where home prices have risen 65 percent since 2019.
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October 21Maine’s other municipalities use voting tabulation devices, which studies have shown are faster and more accurate.
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October 20Two crew members who were missing following the crash of a fighter jet in mountainous terrain in Washington state during a routine training flight have been declared dead.
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October 20Georgia authorities say they are investigating the catastrophic failure of a dock gangway that collapsed, killing seven on Sapelo Island off the state's Atlantic seacoast.
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October 21A little over half of the $31 million aimed at shoring up the state's struggling emergency medical services has yet to be distributed. Some say the funds should go directly to EMS agencies while others want to support training centers.