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Remains of missing Windham man allegedly murdered by Leeds man found in New Hampshire
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Maine to extend solar power to low-income communities, helped by $62 million from Washington
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Attempted breakout at youth prison illustrates recent turmoil within understaffed facility
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Environmental groups sue Maine, claiming state has failed to comply with climate law
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Photo Album: Butterfly wings lift up Lewiston
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Gendron pulls out of plans to develop Auburn land into housing
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The 2 victims were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through Libby, Montana.
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The hearing will resume Wednesday morning with testimony and closing arguments.
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Make a Difference Day will involve all students and staff for the first time.
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Chairman Lance Harvell of Farmington issued a verbal apology and a written apology to Keith Amato of Wilton on April 16.
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The federal government is for the first time requiring nursing homes to have minimum staffing levels after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed grim realities in poorly staffed facilities.
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The final letter that George Mallory wrote to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago has been digitalized.
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The opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former American president provided a clear roadmap of how prosecutors will try to make the case that Donald Trump broke the law, and how the defense plans to fight the charges on multiple fronts
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Arrests listed from April 2 through April 18.
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Threats to election offices that have been an alarming consequence of Trump's false claims about his 2020 loss loom as a perilous wildcard for the thousands of local government workers who will oversee the election this fall.
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Several people removed trash from the sides of the roads and other areas.
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The 60 funded recipients, including the Maine Governor's Energy Office, will serve 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday put legislation requiring ByteDance to divest its ownership stake in TikTok on a fast track to become law.
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A 3-year-old is expected to survive after falling from a Pierce Street residence, police say.
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Developer plans 377 market rate apartments, commercial spaces and restaurant space for the massive mill complex.
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Twenty-nine nonprofits each received $63,000 from a $1.9 million fund created with donations after the Oct. 25, 2023, mass shooting.
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Scarborough, Brunswick and Wells are among the communities in Maine that will get funding to conserve areas affected by climate change.
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At issue is a federal regulation that changed the definition of a firearm to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun, so they can be tracked more easily.
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Soboleski questions House passage of foreign aid bills and why his primary opponent has remained mum on the issue.
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Health officials said rules would protect the privacy of women seeking abortions from Republican prosecutors who have threatened to crack down on the procedure.
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Two bottles of cherries, buried for about 250 years, have been found at Mount Vernon.
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Aharon Haliva, head of military intelligence, handed in his resignation. He’s the first senior Israeli official to step down over the assault by Hamas.
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Fire crews battled two fires Monday morning, one a 3-story home on Main Street and the other a spreading garage fire on Bisbee Street.
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Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and could face four years in prison if convicted, though it’s not clear if the judge would seek to put him behind bars.
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In California and other Western states, courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelter space is lacking.
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The $18 million pilot initiative is meant to curb evictions. About 2,400 people and families will qualify.
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UMaine schools are part of a national trend where acceptance offers are made to select students who never officially applied. So far, nearly 300 students who received the UMaine offers have enrolled.
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Greater Portland Health's medication-assisted treatment program offers shelter guests access to Suboxone in an effort to treat addiction and reduce deadly overdoses.
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A Boston native, he was a resident of Cape Elizabeth at the time of his death.
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On the strength of a Whitney Houston song, Gagnon inches one step closer to making the top 10.
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The globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent became one of America’s longest-held hostages.
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Xisen Guo, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, faces charges after a bust in rural Penobscot County. A detention hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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Joy Cumming, 53, and her mother, Jean Robinson, 76, were found dead in December 2023 at the home they shared on Red Schoolhouse Road.
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After an initial crackdown and decline, the rate of the powerful medications given to nursing home residents has ticked back up in recent years.
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Embers from the lodge's large stone fireplace apparently ignited the roof Thursday night.
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The main sticking point involves access to vital information about new threats that may emerge – and to the vaccines and medicines that could contain that threat.
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A coalition of charitable organizations is embarking on the dangerous trip to highlight the lack of aid reaching Palestinians.
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Robberies were reported Sunday morning at churches in Parsonsfield, Cornish and Baldwin.
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The family rallied behind Biden last week in Philadelphia with a full-throated endorsement of his reelection campaign, pointedly choosing him over one of their own.
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The jury selection process for Trump’s hush money trial created something akin to a national focus group.
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None of the signatures collected by the PAC, including completed petitions for Michigan, Arizona, South Carolina and Georgia, were given to the campaign.
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He said Ukrainian forces lack long-range weapons of their own, as well as adequate air defenses.
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Both the Biden and Trump campaigns have seen 60% declines in their average engagement per Facebook post.
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His political committees have spent at least $16.7 million on legal bills so far this year.
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The mural, titled 'How Humanity Managed To Save the Planet,' was developed by high school students working with a local artist and completed Sunday by community members.
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The three greenhouses put out over 2 million heads of organic lettuce a year, and the farm raises about 150,000 pounds of tilapia
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Sun Journal photographers select some of their favorite images from last week.
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Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from fighting elsewhere.
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Districts such as Scarborough and others in southern Maine – where residents have balked at tax hikes – have few alternatives when they need to fund large construction projects.
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As one resident put it: 'I have to apologize to my car at least 10 times a day.' We asked readers and public officials about navigating potholes this season, and what — if anything — can be done to help this 'wheel-shaking' problem.
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Have you been personally victimized by a pothole this season? You're likely not alone.