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Union officials are urging city councilors to consider banning the driverless trains from moving hazardous materials and operating on tracks that connect with Amtrak passenger service.
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July 26Gardiner police and Kennebec County Sheriff's deputies were seen at the South Gardiner home Friday afternoon before they were joined by investigators from the Maine State Police.
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July 26Artists, dancers, musicians converge on downtown Lewiston Friday night.
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July 26The ship was en route from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago, Illinois, when it sank in Lake Michigan during a storm on Sept. 30, 1893.
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July 26The medical community is divided about whether instant information empowers patients or harms them.
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July 26Water-quality testing at Ocean Park in Old Orchard Beach and Mackerel Cove in Harpswell found bacteria levels several times higher than what the EPA considers safe.
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July 26A man was arrested in connection with California’s largest fire this year, after a woman saw him push a burning car down a ravine.
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July 26Police swarmed on a Dill Street home after receiving a report of a gunman there. No problems were found at the home.
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July 26The emergency food pantry and soup kitchen is now a nonprofit organization under the town of Mexico.
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July 26The 36-year-old Black woman was fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fired sheriff’s deputy charged in her death.
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July 26Wood pellet production skyrocketed across the U.S. South. It helped feed demand in the European Union for renewable energy, as those countries sought to replace fossil fuels such as coal.
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July 26A spokesperson for Western Maine Transportation Services, which operates Citylink, said the company "is continuing to bargain in good faith with the union."
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July 26Military veterans have spent years lobbying for the use of psychedelic drugs to treat PTSD, but a sharply critical review of the club drug MDMA has put the therapy's approval in doubt.