In this May 12, 2021, file photo, Jennifer Conary looks away as she receives a COVID-19 vaccination in Auburn. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Maine continues to see large geographic differences in COVID-19 vaccinations even as more than 50 percent of the state’s total population and nearly 63 percent of eligible Mainers aged 12 and older have received at least one vaccine dose.
In this April 12, 2021, file photo, Gov. Janet Mills arrives at a news conference at Maine’s mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Oxford. Credit: Andree Kehn / Sun Journal via AP
Gov. Janet Mills has largely sided with the business lobby against proposals from progressive Democrats to raise taxes on high earners and scrap at-will employment.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks during a Senate committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on April 28, 2021. Credit: Bill O'Leary / The Washington Post via AP
Katrina F. Preble, 56, allegedly left a series of voicemails on the senator’s office phones in Bangor and Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6 and 11.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins holds a model of a ship hull while posing with officials including (second from left) Martin Kao, the CEO of Martin Defense Group, in this 2019 photo provided by Collins’ office. Kao, who was charged last year with a small business loan program championed by the Maine senator, is the subject of an FBI investigation into whether he illegally funneled money toward Collins’ 2020 reelection effort. Credit: Courtesy photo
The warrant application alleges that Martin Kao, the CEO of Martin’s Defense Group, created a shell company to funnel $150,000 in funding from his company, then called Navatek, to the 1820 PAC, a super PAC created to support Collins.
Besides gambling at casinos, going on a cruise and paying utility bills, Beth Bing and her husband used the college’s corporate cards to go on cross-country trips and purchase items such as television sets and washing machines.
In this June 16, 2020, file photo, the sun is reflected on Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York. Credit: Mark Lennihan / AP
Primary Productions LLC claims the tech giant is harming millions of independent software developers with “anti-competitive business practices” in the App Store.
Mystery animal named ‘Fluffy’ turns out to be albino woodchuck
This all-white animal has been visiting the yard of Richard Koralek on the Belfast waterfront. It turns out that “Fluffy,” as he has named the critter, is a rare find. Credit: Courtesy of Richard Koralek
Some readers were convinced Fluffy was an ermine, an albino squirrel or a northern bog lemming.
