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BEIRUT – Syria and its Russian and Iranian allies slammed President Donald Trump’s call to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Friday, inflaming regional tensions at a time when the Trump administration is seeking to curtail Iran’s expanding influence.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

AUGUSTA, Maine — A Maine legislative committee has signed off on a proposal that requires dog owners to assist people who are attacked by their animals.
The bill requires the owner of a dog that assaults a person to get aid for the injured person, contain the dog and provide a name and contact information to the injured person.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

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A so-called “red flag” bill to allow courts to order a person deemed dangerous to temporarily surrender guns is moving forward again in the Maine Legislature and could be an early flashpoint for conservatives despite a past compromise of sorts on the issue.

A 23-year-old Vassalboro man has been charged with aggravated assault after his infant son was hospitalized with serious injuries, a state police spokesman said.
Dylan J. Wood was arrested Saturday and taken to the Kennebec County Jail, Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said in a Friday morning news release.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

As amorous embraces go, few could be more ardent than the one Beto O’Rourke got this month from Vanity Fair magazine.
The perfectly timed cover treatment was the full monty: Rugged-glam photo by the legendary Annie Leibovitz, the former Texas congressman’s earnest Kennedy-esque gaze, and the ripe-for-parody headline including this immortal quote: “I’m just born to be in it.”

She played for two Maine Sports Hall of Fame coaches and manned point guard, the most influential position on the basketball court.
Despite that background, University of Maine women’s basketball head coach Amy Vachon had no interest in coaching after she concluded her outstanding career at UMaine in 2000.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

In the week since Shane Sauer, 26, of Belfast was shot and killed in Swanville, hundreds of people have come to the car wash where he used to work to remember him.

Brewer High School student Dillan Lee put himself in a police officer’s shoes Thursday morning to understand a scenario in which an officer might use deadly force.
Lee, 18, and his classmates role-played troublemakers at a traffic stop and in domestic disturbance cases.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a powerful White House aide, is not preserving all of her official email communications as required by federal law, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee said on Thursday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A man and woman who were shot more than a year ago in Machiasport by a Marine Patrol officer have filed a civil lawsuit against the officer, alleging he used excessive force and violated their constitutional rights in the incident.