The House and Senate both approved the bipartisan package by wide margins, sending it to President Biden, who signed it just before midnight. All four members of Maine's congressional delegation backed the measure.
Hard-right Republican holdouts rejected the package, despite its steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions, calling it insufficient.
During a 15-minute hearing in Kennebec County Superior Court, Justice Micheala Murphy granted a request for negotiating assistance and asked the parties to update the court 30 days after their initial meeting.
The American journalist and Bowdoin grad has been detained by Russian authorities for 6 months. His parents left the country 38 years earlier to escape repression.
The incident, which involved a minor carrying an airsoft gun on school property, was unrelated to the South Portland teenager currently charged with promoting a scheme to kill people at the high school, according to Superintendent Tim Matheney.
Feinstein, the oldest sitting U.S. senator, was a passionate advocate for liberal priorities important to her state but was also known as a pragmatic lawmaker who reached out to Republicans and sought middle ground.
The message will serve to acknowledge the growing risk that millions of employees may stop receiving pay, unless lawmakers can avert a government shutdown.
Jason Billingsley, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old Pava LaPere, was released from prison last October after serving a shortened sentence for a 2013 rape.
The Education Department issued a report Thursday promoting strategies to increase diversity in the wake of a Supreme Court decision barring colleges from considering the race of applicants in the admission process.
Pamela Rackliffe of Farmington was trimming branches Thursday in front of her house on High Street in Farmington. Her 18-month-old Yorkshire Terrier, Bently, stood by to keep an eye on her.
The Bath Golf Club, established in 1932, hasn't been profitable since the mid-1990s and sees the project as a way forward, according to its managing member.
Maine has enough funding to keep aid flowing for most of October, but a DHHS spokesperson says the state would likely halt new enrollments in the federally funded WIC program.
Max Barber and his brother and co-owner will put their culinary expertise to use by introducing a selection of prepared foods, sandwiches, and house marinades to the market.
The handpicked board passes a $194.5 million budget to oversee the entertainment company's huge property in Florida and to continue a lawsuit – against Disney.
Marina Kinney, 30, was driving south in the northbound lane of Interstate 295, near Brunswick, when she became involved in a crash that injured two, according to officials.
The Red Sox on Thursday said Schilling, on a podcast, said Tim Wakefield has brain cancer and his wife, Stacy, has pancreatic cancer, 'without their permission.'