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Strikes on Gaza’s southern edge sow fear in one of last areas of refuge
Two months into the war, the grinding offensive has set off renewed alarms internationally.
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December 6Kyle Secor posted a thank you on his Facebook page to the hospital staff and community for their care and support.
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at 6:22 AMThe wife and father of shooting victim Arthur "Artie" Strout attend the National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence and meet hundreds of others whose lives have been inextricably altered.
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December 6Three members and 6 student representatives are sworn into office.
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December 6Experts in political messaging say the context in which Trump uses 'guard the vote' primes his supporters to not only expect fraud – without reason – in diverse Democratic cities next year, but to intervene to ensure Trump wins.
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December 6An indictment filed in federal court in Virginia detailed what officials said are the first war-crimes charges filed by the United States arising out of the Ukraine war.
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December 6Erin Searles received cash and drugs for being a "straw" purchaser of handguns for a Lewiston man, prosecutors say.
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December 6Annabelle Hartnett has never named the man who shot her in Portland last April, but prosecutors say other witnesses will identify Damion Butterfield as the gunman.
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December 6Maine's highest court hears an appeal by Nicholas P. Lovejoy, who pleaded guilty to murder in the 2019 shooting death of Melissa Sousa.
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December 6The Food and Drug Administration has spent years developing a plan to eliminate menthol, estimating it could prevent 300,000 to 650,000 smoking deaths over several decades.
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December 6The Treasury Department, which is expected to make its guidance public by year's end, declined to comment.
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December 6The debate went just as former President Donald Trump would hope – the candidates fought each other rather than him.
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December 6Industry profit is forecast to reach $23.3 billion this year, the International Air Transport Association said Wednesday, more than double what the trade body expected in June.
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December 6Israel’s government is accusing the international community, particularly the United Nations, of ignoring the pain of Israeli victims.
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December 6The suspected shooter also was found dead at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus.
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December 6Deng Malual, 36, is accused of killing Clarence James Pearson last month in Westbrook. He appeared in Cumberland County Superior Court on Wednesday.
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December 6Jeanne Lambrew acknowledges problems within the child protection office during testimony before the Legislature's Government Oversight Committee.
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December 6Lawmakers on the Government Oversight Committee are appealing a lower court's decision that barred them from access to confidential child protective records.
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December 6Also on Wednesday, Nevada became the 3rd state to criminally charge fake electors, following Georgia and Michigan.
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December 6'Republicans in Congress are willing to give (Russian President Vladimir) Putin the greatest gift he could hope for,' President Biden said.
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December 6Maine is working with Parton's Imagination Library literacy initiative to expand the program across the state.
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December 6His departure will leave the already paper-thin House Republican majority even tighter, with just a few seats to spare.
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December 6Police responded to a robbery at a residence on Airport Road shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday and the search for the suspects ended around 1:30 p.m., according to Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster.
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December 6The suspect, Shane James, is a former U.S. Army infantry officer who served from 2013-2015, and has a history of mental health problems and a prior arrest on charges of assaulting family members.
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December 6The judge had agreed to consider a new trial after finding Foster Bates' last attorney waited too long to request a hearing for new evidence in the murder and rape of Tammy Dickson. But the judge didn't find the evidence strong enough to reopen the case.
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December 6Some 1.87 million people – over 80% of the population – have already fled their homes, and much of the north has been completely destroyed.
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The challenge by a Washington state couple is widely viewed as an effort to preemptively block Congress from establishing a wealth tax.
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Billions in additional aid to the embattled country is stuck as Republicans push border, walk out of classified briefing.
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December 5'We cannot let him win,' President Biden said of Donald Trump at one of 3 fundraisers he attended in the Boston area on Tuesday.
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December 6The Capital Region Public Defender's Office started accepting appointments for indigent clients on Nov. 27
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December 5The ex-New York congressman joined the video messaging platform Cameo days after he was expelled from the House for alleged criminal and ethical breeches.
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December 5It is the second time in less than a week that someone has driven the wrong way on a major highway in Maine.
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December 5Legislators called the Child Development Services agency 'broken.' Education Commissioner Pender Makin said little to ease their concerns.
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December 6Arthur Barnard and Kristy Strout, the father and wife of Arthur 'Artie' Strout, are meeting with other families from all over the country who have lost loved ones to gun violence.
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December 5Maine's Public Advocate accuses Central Maine Power of hiring too many storm repair crews, inflating costs. The utility questions its critic's cost calculations and says electricity was restored quickly.
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December 6David Poto said he was shooting to stop – not kill – the man in Sanford on Friday evening. Prosecutors have not determined if they will file charges against Poto or the victim.
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December 5The budget adopted Monday allows transmission service agreements to be renegotiated and additional costs to be passed along to Massachusetts ratepayers.
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December 5Lorenze Labonte, 25, was charged last week with murder in the death of Ahmed Sharif, but he wasn't allowed to see the affidavit supporting his arrest until Tuesday.
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December 5A warrant for the arrest of Daniel Banyai, who built a large firing range without permits, was first issued in July, but it expired with no action taken.
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December 5The investigation – focused on the business dealings of Biden family members – has yet to produce evidence of wrongdoing by the president.
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December 5President Biden, who said he is not alone in sounding the alarm, noted that Trump is the 'only losing candidate' in U.S. history to not accept the results.
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December 5The pharmacy giant says its new formulas will better represent the 'true net cost' of medications.
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December 5ChatGPT came in at number one with 49,490,406 pageviews.
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December 5The initiative is funded with pandemic relief money and quantifies for the first time the number of educator vacancies in Maine: over 850.
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December 5Bombardment has grown fiercer across the territory, including areas where Palestinians are told to seek safety.
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December 5A former UNE football player and a current student were in the Honda Civic traveling the wrong way on the highway when it hit a Rav4 driven by a Portland resident.
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December 5The Somerset Woods Trustees purchased the parcel, located next to the north inlet of Lake Wesserunsett, from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
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December 5They criticize what they called a global failure to support women and girls who were raped, sexually assaulted and, in some cases, killed in the Hamas attack in Israel.
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December 5Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama had been under pressure to end his holds as senators complained about the toll it was taking on service members and their families, and on military readiness.
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December 6Six privately funded shelters around the state are facing a collective shortfall of about $4.1 million.
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December 6With winter at hand, officials Tuesday packed up several makeshift memorials before ice and plows could destroy them. The items will be incorporated into an exhibit at the Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning and Labor in Lewiston.
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December 5If she does not run for the White House, Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman and a daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is not ruling out voting for Biden or campaigning for him.
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December 5The money comes from the governor's Clean Energy Partnership program, one of many created with Maine's share of American Rescue Plan funding.
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December 5The court has dismissed a case involving a Wells hotel that could have made it harder for people with disabilities to learn in advance whether hotel accommodations meet their needs.
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December 5U.S. employers posted 8.7 million job openings in October, in a sign that hiring is cooling in the face of higher interest rates yet remains at a still-healthy pace.
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December 5Draft protocol will be finalized after public comment period ends; payout of funds expected early 2024.
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December 5Somerset County Deputy Michael Lyman 'reasonably believed' that Trevor A. Caouette posed an imminent threat before the officer shot and wounded the man, the Attorney General's office found.
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December 5Rescuers are contending with bad weather and terrain constraints, as the scouring wind brings heat from the eruptions.
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December 4The administration is certain to take a close look at Alaska Air Group's $1.9 billion bid to acquire Hawaiian Airlines.