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Those revisions weaken standards for sanitation at facilities, and grant ICE officials with more authority to block access to media and legal aid organizations.
The Presque Isle High School students were among more than 1,000 sworn in to the U.S. military by International Space Station astronaut Andrew Morgan on Wednesday.
Klobuchar is a centrist who earns praise from Republicans. This should be seen as a benefit, not a drawback at a time when both political parties too often move to their extremes and gridlock is a hallmark in Washington.
The odds of passing a slate of other recommendations remain uncertain.
It was the eighth snowmobile fatality so far this season.
Fifty years ago, Rockland-based filmmaker Ben Levine was a part of a filmmaking group in New York City that used early handheld video cameras to document the lives of marginalized people and give them tools to advocate for themselves.
Newborns in Maine are five times more likely to be exposed to opioids.
At about 9 a.m. on Saturday, Layla Pickering hauled a monster white perch out of the water. The fish weighed 2.65 pounds and was 16 inches long.
The snowfall will be heaviest in the early afternoon for northern Maine before petering out later Thursday evening.
Mainers are most likely to encounter ticks while gardening and doing yard work. Don’t turn in your rake and spade just yet, though.
Similar routes taken by the Hampden Academy and Dexter boys basketball teams epitomize the depth and the unpredictability of tourney time in Maine.
Kate Kovenock, who dominated the freestyle during her career at Orono High School and was an NCAA champion at Connecticut College, is among three people selected for induction into the Maine Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame.
UMaine Presque Isle has won nine of its last 11 games since then and gone 6-1 in conference play. That includes Saturday’s 87-86 quarterfinal victory at Thomas, which advanced UMPI to the NAC semifinals on Friday night.
During the boating season, Hampden harbormaster Peter Neal is used to seeing a few vessels that have run aground in the channel between the town’s public boat launch and the Penobscot River.
Orono residents will decide in June whether to stop fluoridating their public water supply — which could end a nearly 60-year practice.
Maine’s elected leaders have been cautious to endorse any candidate ahead of the state’s March 3 Democratic primary, though Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren leads in endorsements from current lawmakers with less than a week to go.
After holding out for months, Gov. Janet Mills’ administration on Wednesday reached an agreement with tribes and lawmakers over a domestic violence bill that has been a major hurdle in wider tribal sovereignty negotiations.
A Boston-based consulting firm told lawmakers Wednesday that it should have disclosed its work on another energy-related study to Maine regulators during a bidding process, but allegations that it had a conflict of interest are “groundless.”
A Newport man accused of slaying his wife last month was indicted for murder Wednesday by the Penobscot County grand jury.
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