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Health, Maine, News

Northern Light Mercy Hospital confirms employee tested positive for coronavirus

by Dennis Hoey March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

The employee works off campus, and the Portland hospital is contacting anyone who may have been exposed.

Business, Maine, Maine Cannabis Report, News

Maine issues first round of conditional marijuana licenses

by Penelope Overton March 13, 2020March 13, 2020

Among them are four manufacturing facilities, 11 growing operations and 16 retail outlets in 10 communities, with five of the stores in Portland.

Maine, News, Politics, Times Record

Cumberland County sheriff, U.S. attorney at odds over immigration detention

by Dennis Hoey February 12, 2020February 13, 2020

U.S. Attorney Halsey Frank says law enforcement agencies in ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ are ‘imperiling the public,’ but Sheriff Kevin Joyce calls that misleading and says he won’t comply with immigration detainer requests without probable cause.

Cops & Courts, Maine, News, Times Record

Woolwich man indicted in accident that killed skateboarder in Portland

by Dennis Hoey February 10, 2020February 11, 2020

Ernest M. Patti will face as much as 5 years in prison if he’s convicted of leaving the scene of the accident last summer in which Wayne Harwood was killed.