PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democrat Joseph E. Brennan, whose hardscrabble childhood shaped his working-class views in a political career that included two terms as Maine’s governor and two terms in the U.S. House, died Friday evening at his home in Portland. He was 89. Brennan died with his wife at his side a few blocks […]
PORTLAND, Maine — The founder of Special Olympics Maine groomed a 9-year-old boy for sexual abuse that spanned two decades in which he encouraged the victim to accompany him on business trips and provided him with employment – and threatened him to keep it quiet, according to a lawsuit. The plaintiff, who was not a […]
Gracious goodness, this had to be something of a Green grift gut punch. The New England states, particularly those wild-eyed, unpredictable Mainers, are always ripe for a good “save the world” scheme. I know certain parties felt this was destined to be yet another. The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) met yesterday for a […]
A Democrat-led bill seeks to establish a legal right to abortions, transgender surgeries, and hormonal treatments in Maine, and protect those traveling from outside of the state to get such procedures there. LD 227 would establish a legal right to “gender-affirming health care services” and “reproductive health care services” within Maine, according to a draft […]
A United Airlines flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey was diverted to Bangor, Maine, on Friday because drunken passengers were being physically disruptive, the airline said. “United flight 883 landed in Bangor this morning after two passengers, who appeared intoxicated, became disruptive. Law enforcement officials removed the two […]
The southern border is a catastrophe thanks to Joe Biden’s deliberate dereliction of duty. While everyone has been noticing the U.S.-Mexico border, guess what is happening? The northern border is compromised, too. The U.S. northern border is slowly becoming an issue. As it turns out, illegal aliens are crossing the U.S. border with Canada at […]
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine would become the 27th state to ban paramilitary training, under a bill the House narrowly passed Wednesday. The proposal, designed to block groups hoping to create civil unrest, passed 66-60. It was sponsored by Democratic Rep. Laurie Osher of Orono. The measure comes in the wake of a rise in public […]
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine state police on Thursday defended their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared a late-night ambush. The Oct. 25 shooting at a bowling alley and a bar was the deadliest in state […]
COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine — The family behind an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as the centerpiece of a billion-dollar development honoring veterans in rural Down East Maine is abandoning the idea, an attorney said Friday. The Worcester family won’t pursue the flagpole project in Washington County or elsewhere for the time being […]
Former President Donald Trump is one step closer to remaining on the ballot for Maine’s presidential primary after a decision from the state’s Supreme Court on Wednesday — or at least, he’s no closer to being removed form it. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court dismissed an appeal from Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, […]
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