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Several environmental groups have filed suit against the Maine Department of Environmental Protection for failing to slash carbon emissions as required by state law ..read more
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Oxford County commissioners say they're concerned about a pattern of troubling behavior by Wainwright in recent years, and are asking Governor Janet Mills to remove him ..read more
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A Penobscot County man is the first person to be federally charged in an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into illegally grown marijuana. Xisen Guo is accused by the U.S. State Attorney's office of maintaining a drug-involved premises at his home in Passadumkeag ..read more
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3d ago
Dechaine has been serving a life sentence for the killing of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry in 1988, and is asking for a new trial based on DNA test evidence released two years ago ..read more
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At issue is new and enhanced testing of DNA on several items recovered from the crime scene in Bowdoin, Maine more than three decades ago ..read more
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The operations are the latest in a string of illegal marijuana busts across rural Maine ..read more
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1w ago
On Tuesday night the Belfast City Council will hold a public hearing to allow residents to weigh in on the city's move to take a parcel of intertidal land by eminent domain and nullify a conservation easement on that property ..read more
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Attorney General Aaron Frey is seeking unspecified damages for injuries and for the cleanup of 400 miles of Maine rivers and 1.8 acres of ocean that are currently identified as impaired by PCBs ..read more
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1w ago
The independent commission investigating the Lewiston shootings pressed U.S. Army Reserve Captain Jeremy Reamer about what actions he did and didn't take after fellow reservist Robert Card was hospitalized for psychosis and threatened acts of violence ..read more
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3w ago
Maine has tried to send fewer teenagers to prison, emphasizing rehabilitation programs instead. But the rural north of the state shows the effort has played out unevenly ..read more