When back-to-back mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, jolted the nation earlier this month, President Donald Trump again spoke of “building new facilities” for the mentally ill as a way to reduce mass shootings.
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Fierce Category 4 Dorian menaces Bahamas on its way to Florida
But forecasters are still uncertain whether the hurricane will make a direct hit on the state’s east coast or inflict a glancing blow.
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Officials are investigating 11 suspicious deaths at a VA hospital. Two have been ruled homicides.
The deaths have the potential to become a significant challenge for Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie. “People at VA have been what looks like the victim of a crime,” he said.
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Noel and Betty Stookey performing at Church of Universal Fellowship
This program will support the Maine MultiCultural Center based in Bangor.
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Maine farmers feeding Maine children
18 percent of Maine children live in poverty, and one in five Maine kids is food insecure.
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Old Town mill has second fire in six weeks
Two firefighters suffered minor injuries as they helped to extinguish a fire at the newly reopened Nine Dragons Paper mill in Old Town.
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Put the cellphones down now while driving
More than 6 percent of drivers on Maine roads were talking on a phone or manipulating a device, according to a 2018 survey of almost 13,600 vehicles
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MFLM starting Donnell Mill restoration project
Donnell’s mill is the only known saw to cut 8 foot clapboards.
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Women of the World announces 2019-20 schedule
Women of the World (WOW) is a group of international women, including Americans, who gather once a month at the Church of Universal Fellowship, 12 noon, 82 Main Street in Orono, to share their cultural heritages.
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Bill Berlinghoff performing at Tuesday Forum Luncheon
Bill is a folksinger with more than half a century of performing experience, appearing in almost every east-coast state from Maine to Virginia and as far west as Colorado and Oregon.