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2 more Mainers have died and another 415 coronavirus cases reported across the state

By Christopher Burns on Aug 28, 2021 08:28 am
That brings the total number of coronavirus cases reported across Maine to 75,381 and the death toll to 930.
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Man arrested after armed confrontation outside Brewer Walmart

By Christopher Burns on Aug 28, 2021 07:14 am
Patrick Mullen, 51, faces charges of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and creating a standoff.
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UMaine field hockey player competing for Canada in international championship game

By Larry Mahoney on Aug 28, 2021 01:00 am
University of Maine field hockey forward Julia Ross will be playing for a gold medal during the Junior Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, on Saturday.
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Lobster fishing cooperative wins more than $1 million in dispute with former CEO

By Judy Harrison on Aug 28, 2021 01:00 am
Lobster 207 LLC sued Warren Pettegrow and his parents, who own and operate the Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound, in December 2019 in U.S. District Court in Bangor.
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In Bangor hospital’s ICU, ‘We have a lot of people who are ready for this to be over’

By David Marino Jr. on Aug 28, 2021 01:00 am
Staff is stretched thin, with some forced to isolate due to getting the coronavirus themselves and others sick from exhaustion.
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Staff COVID-19 exposures blunt Maine hospitals’ ability to fight critical case surge

By Jessica Piper on Aug 28, 2021 01:00 am
Staffing shortages are limiting the ability of Maine hospitals to adapt to a surge of critically ill COVID-19 patients as officials begin to consider contingency plans that were not needed earlier in the pandemic.
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Only 1 bomb blast in Kabul on Thursday, Pentagon clarifies

By Tribune Content Agency on Aug 27, 2021 08:13 pm
The Pentagon said it had determined there was just one suicide bomber and a single blast — not two explosions as it first reported. Because of the enormous crush of people thronging the Kabul airport entry, the death toll was unusually high.
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Biden promise to strike extremists faces new Afghan reality

By The Associated Press on Aug 27, 2021 08:03 pm
By promising to strike the extremists who killed 13 Americans and dozens of Afghans, President Joe Biden now confronts the reality of finding and targeting them in an unstable country without U.S. military and intelligence teams on the ground and no help from a friendly government in Kabul.
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