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Friday, January 31, 2020 at 1 pm

 

Maine schools in lockdown after threat mentioning Susan Collins


Threats made Friday that one superintendent said mentioned U.S. Sen. Susan Collins have forced schools from Machias to Bangor and in Aroostook County into a “soft lockdown.”
 
 
 

After initially overruling kids’ votes, Brunswick school board changes mascot decision


Brunswick's mascot controversy is over.
 
 
 

US advises no travel to China, where virus deaths top 200


The U.S. advised against all travel to China as the number of cases of a worrying new virus spiked more than tenfold in a week, including the highest death toll in a 24-hour period reported Friday.
 
 
 

A high-pressure acquittal vote could be looming for Susan Collins today


It looks unlikely that enough Republicans will join Maine’s senior senator to vote for impeachment witnesses, setting up a high-pressure acquittal vote.
 
 
 

This Blue Hill ‘space capsule’ will be one of fewer than 100 net-zero homes in Maine


The house has an odd look from the road, with five small narrow horizontal and vertical windows. But the house will be so airtight that its heating system, a heat pump, will only occasionally need to provide heat to the eventual homeowners.
 
 
 

Susan Collins to vote for Trump impeachment witnesses, but trial could end Friday


U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said late Thursday she will vote for calling more witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, but a Democratic-led bid for more testimony looked unlikely to pass as the Senate moved toward an imminent vote for acquittal.
 
 
 

Maine schools with Chinese students ask them not to travel home amid coronavirus outbreak


As the coronavirus was declared an international health emergency, private high schools in Maine with Chinese students were asking them not to travel home during an upcoming break and calling off administrators’ recruiting trips.
 
 
 

Jim Rice entertains Red Sox fans in Bangor, downplays sign-stealing scandal


The Hall of Fame slugger was engaging and exhibited a keen wit while interacting comfortably with almost a full house of Red Sox fans. He downplayed the sign-stealing scandal, saying “all teams cheat and all the players cheat. It’s part of baseball.”
 
 
 

Bangor police used ‘less lethal’ weapon in arresting man they say threatened to burn neighbor’s home


Few details are available about the arrest earlier this week of a Bangor man who allegedly threatened to burn down his neighbor's home — he reportedly displayed a gasoline container at the time — then barricaded himself inside his own mobile home when officers arrived.
 
 
 

Voters will decide whether to ban pesticides in Blue Hill


Voters will decide during an election in April whether to join 29 other Maine municipalities in prohibiting the sale and use of synthetic pesticides in town.
 
 
 

Belfast’s new police chief has flown fighter jets to the North Pole and broken the sound barrier


New Police Chief Gerry Lincoln has been with the Belfast Police Department since 2017 and before that spent nearly a decade working for the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office.
 
 
 

Few sexual assault cases make it to court. A Maine prosecutor wants to change that.


Case workers at Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine, say they counseled 503 victims of alleged sex crimes last year. But only 76 filed a police report.
 
 
 

Son of Hall of Famer Randy Moss commits to UMaine football team


Montigo Moss is a 6-foot-1 wide receiver who attends Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia.
 
 
 

Valley Unified voted off 3 board members citing conflicts of interest


The Valley Unified Board of Directors removed three administrators from their positions on the board during Tuesdays meeting due to potential conflicts of interest.
 
 
 

How Maine plans to shift some rural police coverage to county sheriffs


Police responses in certain areas of rural Maine are beginning to shift from the state toward sheriffs’ offices as part of a state-driven effort to curb overwork as the administration of Gov. Janet Mills prepares to ask lawmakers for more troopers.
 
 
 

Men charged in Essex Street homicide indicted for murder and arson


The two men charged in the slaying of a Bangor man in his Essex Street home on Nov. 1 were indicted Thursday on one count each of intentional or knowing murder and arson by the Penobscot County grand jury.
 
 
 

UN agency declares global emergency over virus from China


The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a week.
 
 
 

In Trump trial, Susan Collins asks if a president can ever ask foreign countries to probe rivals


President Donald Trump's impeachment trial lurched into a final day of questions and answers on Thursday before a crucial vote on calling witnesses, with U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine asking if it is ever appropriate to ask a foreign country to investigate a political rival.
 
 
 

Man charged in Bangor musician’s 2018 beating death pleads guilty to manslaughter


The 30-year-old man charged with murder in the 2018 brutal beating death of a Bangor musician pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter Thursday at the Penobscot Judicial Center.
 
 

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