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- Neighbors at odds over new purple house in New Hampshire
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 06:00 AMEPPING, New Hampshire — It’s the color of royalty, richness, grapes and wine. And in Epping, it’s the color of controversy.
The lilac Victorian house on the corner of Main and Academy streets is raising eyebrows and chuckles.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Maine police departments facing statewide officer shortage
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 01:00 AMWESTBROOK, Maine — If you’ve been on social media lately, you might have come across a job posting by your local police department. A police officer shortage is hitting departments hard across the state.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Basketball relationships a blessing for injured Hall of Fame-bound Gaudet
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 01:00 AMMatt Gaudet’s induction into the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday is a no-brainer.
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From his origins in the sport as a youngster at the Greater Rumford Community Center, Gaudet developed a propensity for leading teams to championships. - Man arrested following standoff in Sidney
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 04:26 PMState Police say a man has been arrested after a standoff on Richard Road in Sidney.
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More than a dozen state police cruisers were seen parked in the area on Friday afternoon, according to the Morning Sentinel. - Maine joins lawsuit against Trump administration over immigration rule
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 04:49 PMMaine and three other states on Friday filed the latest court challenge to new Trump administration rules blocking green cards for many immigrants who use public assistance including Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Six displaced after Westbrook fire
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 05:28 PMWESTBROOK, Maine — Six people have been displaced after a fire in Westbrook Thursday night, according to the American Red Cross.
The fire happened around 10 p.m. at 35 Lamb Street at a three story multi-unit apartment building.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Maine judge’s refusal to halt Trump ‘gag rule’ is appealed
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 06:18 PMPORTLAND, Maine — The Center for Reproductive Rights is appealing a federal judge’s rejection of a request to block new rules for family planning grants.
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The appeal to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston was filed on Thursday, just days before the new rules take effect on Monday. - ‘Easy Rider’ star and writer Peter Fonda has died at age 79
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 06:58 PMLOS ANGELES — Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right both writing and starring in counterculture classics like “Easy Rider,” has died.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Medical examiner confirms Epstein death a suicide
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 07:19 PMNEW YORK — Jeffrey Epstein’s prison death has been confirmed a suicide by hanging, the medical examiner’s office said Friday.
Epstein, 66, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on Aug.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hartford pulls 5-3 win over Portland
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 08:52 AMHARTFORD, Connecticut — Mylz Jones hit a two-run homer in the second inning, leading the Hartford Yard Goats to a 5-3 win over the Portland Sea Dogs on Thursday.
The home run by Jones, part of a three-run inning, gave the Yard Goats a 2-0 lead before Manuel Melendez hit an RBI single later in the inning.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- NFL conditionally reinstates Patriots WR Josh Gordon
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 07:43 PMNEW YORK — The NFL has conditionally reinstated Patriots wide receiver Josh Gordon.
Commissioner Roger Goodell notified Gordon on Friday that on Sunday, Gordon can rejoin the team for meetings and conditioning and individual workouts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Belfast mayor takes a job 4 hours away but maintains hold on her gavel
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 01:00 AMBelfast residents have grown accustomed to Mayor Samantha Paradis ruffling feathers for what she says and does, including the way she has run City Council meetings and for her frequent assertions at those meetings that her voice be heard.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A border agent’s hateful career and the crime that finally ended it
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 01:00 AMIt was late November 2017, and Matthew Bowen, a veteran Border Patrol agent, was seething. A fellow Border Patrol agent in Texas had just been found dead in the field, and Bowen was certain someone who’d been crossing the border illegally was responsible for murdering him.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Charges against Rockland man who heard voices tell him to ‘do a school shooting’ dismissed
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 04:29 PMThe criminal charges against a Rockland man who heard voices tell him to “do a school shooting” last year have been dismissed.
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Brandon M. Luzzi, 62, complied with the conditions of a six-month deferred disposition — including seeking mental health treatment — that was reached with prosecutors in January, according to court documents. - Maine jury says anti-abortion activist violated state’s civil rights law
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 05:10 PMA Superior Court jury has found that an anti-abortion activist from Lisbon violated the Maine Civil Rights Act by yelling so loudly outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Portland that he disrupted patients and workers inside.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- UMaine senior associate athletic director joins former boss at Denver
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 05:30 PMLynn Coutts, who was promoted by former University of Maine athletic director Karlton Creech from head softball coach to a senior associate director of athletics, will be rejoining Creech at the University of Denver.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Coast Guard: 4 hurt when ferry ran aground in Boston Harbor
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 06:42 PMBOSTON — A commuter ferry ran aground in fog in Boston Harbor on Friday, injuring four people on board.
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The captain of the MV Lightning was forced to take evasive action to avoid a collision after being “cut off” by a sport fishing boat, said Joe Pesaturo, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. - Audit shows why fatal motorcycle crash suspect’s license not revoked earlier
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 06:58 PMBOSTON — A new audit finds that a Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles employee missed an opportunity to revoke the license of the driver accused in a crash that killed seven motorcyclists because he did not know how to add convictions to driving records.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Customs computer outage leads to slowdown at international airports across US
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 07:35 PMLong lines formed at international airports across the United States on Friday after U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s computer system broke down and dramatically slowed the processing of thousands of people arriving from abroad, including U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- An unidentified Portsmouth woman was seriously injured by a hit-and-run
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 09:26 AMPORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire — Police say a woman suffered life-threatening injuries after an apparent hit-and-run in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, early Friday morning.
Police are looking to identify the woman.
Police say they got a report about an unconscious woman lying in the road on Woodbury Avenue around 1 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Burned out Sanford mill torn down a year after fire
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 06:30 AMSANFORD, Maine — And then there was one.
For nearly a century, the twin towers of the Stenton Trust Mill complex at 13 River St. were a familiar and iconic sight in downtown Sanford.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Martha Stewart is living her best Maine summer
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 01:00 AMWhile we common Maine folk are destined to languish this summer in our pool floats shaped like toucans, cold ones in one sunburned paw and fishing pole in the other, Martha Stewart spends her Maine summer at Skylands, her 12-bedroom, 71-acre estate in Seal Harbor on Mt.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- White pine tree has long tradition of military symbolism in Maine
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 01:00 AMAs Maine celebrates its 200th birthday, the bicentennial flag has been raised in communities across the state — blue, featuring a white pine tree and a north-seeking star. The eastern white pine has long stood as a symbol for Maine, but it has special meaning for Maine’s state military forces.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Robert Indiana’s caretaker denies he neglected his duties to the late artist
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 04:40 PMA Vinalhaven man who cared for pop artist Robert Indiana during the final years of the artist’s life is denying allegations made by Indiana’s estate this week that he neglected his duties as a caretaker.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Game warden cleared for firing weapon in 2017 Gouldsboro standoff
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 05:00 PMA Maine game warden acted in self-defense when he shot at a Gouldsboro man during a 2017 standoff, the Maine Attorney General’s office says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Widow’s wedding rings among $100,000 in jewelry stolen in central Maine
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 05:43 PMPORTLAND, Maine -– Police say $100,000 worth of jewelry was stolen in central Maine.
Investigators say the Farmingdale store owners reported a burglary earlier this month.
Now, some customers are learning the sentimental items they’d dropped off for repair are also gone.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Greenland to Trump: Thanks, but we’re not for sale
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 06:35 PMTASIILAQ, Greenland — Greenlanders are giving Donald Trump the cold shoulder.
Although amused, they’re definitely not warming up to the U.S. president’s talk of buying the semiautonomous Danish territory.
“We see it as an expression of greater interest in investing in our country and the possibilities we offer,” the Greenland government said Friday in a short statement.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Officer resigns after 2 hurt by truck at Rhode Island immigration protest
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 07:11 PMPROVIDENCE, R.I. — An officer at a detention center resigned Friday amid investigations into a truck that drove through a group protesting federal immigration policies.
The resignation of Capt. Thomas Woodworth from the Donald W.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Unemployment rate dips to 3 percent in Maine
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 07:25 PMAUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Department of Labor says the state’s unemployment rate dipped to a record low based on preliminary figures for July.
Officials say the seasonally adjusted rate was 3 percent.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What is a market garden?
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 10:00 AMAfter years of successfully and deliciously self-sustaining, some homesteaders explore avenues to sell their harvest. A market garden — a small-scale production of produce usually sold directly to customers — is one way to do so.
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