A recreational vehicle headed south Tuesday afternoon on the Maine Turnpike went into the median and demolished about 100 feet of guardrail in the median.A recreational vehicle headed south Tuesday afternoon on the Maine Turnpike went into the median and demolished about 100 feet of guardrail in the median. LITCHFIELD — A Florida man driving […]
August 2017
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Caribou: Motorcycle rider killed in collision with school bus
CARIBOU (AP) — Police say a motorcycle rider was killed in a collision with a school bus in Caribou. Police say the school bus was turning when the two collided Tuesday afternoon along Access Highway, Route 89, in Caribou. WAGM-TV reports that the motorcycle rider wasn’t immediately identified. The crash remains under investigation, and more […]
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Landowner appreciation and clean up day is September 10
In the last two years, thanks to the efforts of many volunteers and staff from staff from Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, the state has collected nearly a half of a million pounds of illegally dumped trash and litter from the fields and forests of Maine! On September 10, you […]
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Deadline approaching for any-deer permit lottery
The deadline is fast approaching for the 2017 any-deer (anterless) permit lottery. Applications will be accepted online until 11:59 p.m. on August 15. It is free to apply for the any-deer permit lottery. The drawing will be held on September 8, 2017 and results will be posted on the Department’s website. Applicants are reminded that the department does not mail […]
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Legislature tackles Gov. Paul LePage's vetoes today
The Legislature is finally headed to Augusta for what may possibly be its last day of session for 2017, though don’t count on it. There is talk about a special session later this year, but for now, let’s concentrate on today. The Legislature, which by law was supposed to adjourn for the year on June 21, […]
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Paul LePage took his spat with Collins and King to WSJ op-ed pages
Gov. Paul LePage took his fight with Maine’s U.S. senators to the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The governor has been hammering Republican Susan Collins and independent Angus King since their Friday votes against a Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but he ramped it up on Tuesday with a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined […]
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Trump's fundraising prowess a boon for Republican candidates
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators are bucking President Donald Trump’s calls to revive the health care debate. And Trump just ousted his only top White House aide with deep links to the Republican Party. But the president and his party won’t be calling it quits any time soon. They remain tightly linked by a force […]
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Cornish man assaults family members, arrested trying to fight police
CORNISH (AP) — Police in Maine have arrested a man who they say tried to fight police after causing a neighborhood disturbance. York County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a man who was outside screaming in a Cornish neighborhood Tuesday morning. When police arrived on the scene, the yelling man refused to submit and […]
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Christopher Wray easily wins Senate confirmation to lead FBI
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly confirmed Christopher Wray to lead the FBI, replacing James Comey, who was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump amid the investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election. The vote was 92-5 for Wray, a former high-ranking official in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department who […]
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Lawsuit: White House, Fox News worked together on fake story
NEW YORK (AP) — A new lawsuit lays out an explosive tale of Trump allies, the White House and Fox News Channel conspiring to push a false story about Democratic leaks and an unsolved killing in order to distract attention from the Russia investigation that has been swirling around the president The lawsuit was filed […]