SOUTH AROUND 10 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF RAIN 40 PERCENT. BREAKING NEWS NOW... JUST RELEASED BY THE MAINE C-D- C...THE NEW NUMBERS JUST RELEASED... á14á NEW CASES OF CORONAVIRUS TODAY, FOR A NEW TOTAL OF 29 - HUNDRED AND 71 CASES. THERE ARE NO NEW DEATHS....LEAVING THE TOTAL AT 1- HUNDRED AND 2.…
PORTLAND, Maine — The Maine GOP submitted petitions Monday designed to stop the use of a ranked voting style for president, setting up an Election Day fight over the future of the method. Maine became the first state in the country to adopt ranked choice voting when residents approved of it in 2016. The rollout…
Maine reported 37 new COVID-19 cases on Friday and one additional death, as the state moves further toward a reopening of its economy and social activity. Meanwhile, all seven employees who worked at the Maine Emergency Management Agency tested negative for COVID-19, the Maine CDC reported on Friday. They had called in sick on Thursday…
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April 17, 2020 | 9:03pm Enlarge Image An image of a coronavirus scam text message posted by Thomaston Police Department. Thomaston Police Department A police department in Maine is warning the public against a text message-based coronavirus scam. Cops in the Maine port town of Thomaston have posted a photo on their Facebook page of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…