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Pro-Palestine group demands Colby College cut ties with Israel
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Maine ‘American Idol’ contestant Julia Gagnon asks for kindness on Instagram
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Portland man pleads guilty to misdemeanor charges from Jan. 6 riot
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Lawmakers return next week to consider veto overrides, leftover spending bills
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Photo Album: Auburn school celebrates Top 10 seniors
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Auburn School Committee approves changes to transportation policies
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Francelina "Fran" Pratt is honored as Livermore Falls oldest resident.
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Regulators decided Wednesday that U.S. fishermen will be allowed to harvest a little less than 10,000 pounds of the eels per year. That quota will stand through at least 2027.
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The park featuring several monuments sustained heavy damage due to flooding in a December storm. Those behind the effort to renovate the park hope to have most of the work complete by July 4.
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Hobbs said in a statement that she looks forward to quickly signing the repeal into law.
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Republicans in Congress have denounced the protests and demanded action to stop them, thrusting university officials into the center of the charged political debate over Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.
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The Fed chair stressed, as he has before, that the central bank's decision on when to cut rates will depend on the latest economic data.
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Jack D. Teixeira, the airman convicted of leaking classified U.S. secrets on the chat app Discord, faces military criminal proceedings this month.
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A break near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge onramp has northbound traffic down to one lane, according to a city Facebook post.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly railed against several rounds of U.S. and Western sanctions, claiming last year that they are 'illegitimate sanctions' on his country.
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The decision covers 317,000 borrowers who attended the defunct for-profit chain of schools from January 2004 to October 2017.
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell also is signaling he will continue to oppose the marijuana banking bill. McConnell has previously helped block the bill.
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Russia provided almost a quarter of the enriched uranium used to fuel America’s fleet of more than 90 commercial reactors, making it the No. 1 foreign supplier.
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Tax credits aimed at cultivating a domestic EV and battery manufacturing industry were a key element of Biden’s signature climate bill.
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Since word got out, owner Carrie Clark has been sharing her cat's story, with advice to microchip your pets and to double-check your Amazon boxes before returning them.
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The new ban has an exception for saving a woman's life, as well as in cases involving rape and incest. But health care workers are still prevented from performing an abortion on a nonviable pregnancy that they know may become deadly.
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Johnson has come under heavy criticism from some Republicans for moving forward with aid for Ukraine as part of a $95 billion emergency spending package that passed this month.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland recommends loosening restrictions on marijuana, a historic shift in federal drug policy.
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Mason's new brewery initially was projected to be completed and ready to open by last summer.
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Poland Spring parent company BlueTriton announced the aluminum bottles are part of a long-term sustainability plan.
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Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support the war in Gaza have spread across the country in a student movement unlike any other in the 21st century.
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Babies in dispensaries, ID checks at registers and free samples: Businesses say a new law will improve the 'weird' cannabis shopping experience, reduce the stigma and make it akin to buying alcohol.
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The program, which is set to expire at the end of May, helps people with limited means pay their broadband bills.
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Double-check your Amazon boxes before returning them.
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Councilors did not discuss the proposed $111.19 million school budget.
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From Kuwait to Lebanon, Egypt to Ramallah, students have occupied central locations on campuses and protested in solidarity.
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A new report co-authored by a Colby College professor includes a climate scorecard for movies that found only about 1 in 10 of the last decade's top films even mention the topic.
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The Israeli prime minister says stopping the war before the nation's goals are achieved is 'out of the question.'
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Selectperson Keith Swett stressed to Event Coordinator Renee Woodard on Tuesday, April 23, to keep barricades up and manned until all the foot traffic has cleared.
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As Maine leads the country in workplace injury rates, labor advocates are calling on the government to strengthen safety protections and enforcement.
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Critics of the new law hope to block it in court, saying it is unconstitutional. Supporters of the waiting period are confident it would be upheld.
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Town officials award job to lowest of six bidders.
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The proposal is $3.7 million more than this year.
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The Buzz: Mason's Brewing Company suspends plans to build brewery in Auburn; Poland Spring switching to aluminum bottles; Auburn law firm closing after 93 years.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed a motion to vacate last month and told reporters she's laying the groundwork for future consideration.
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Former Sports Minister Fritz Bélizaire replaces Michel Patrick Boisvert, the former minister of economy and finance.
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An osprey brings a fish Tuesday to its nest atop a transmission line in Leeds.
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Contractors working at Rent-A-Center smelled an odor of propane.
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Still to come are votes on the core of the bans on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage in church law and policy.
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The measure, if enacted, would not instantly legalize marijuana at the federal level but could broaden access to the drug for medicinal use.
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The executive editor for the Tribune Publishing and MediaNews Group papers said the tech companies shouldn't be allowed to steal 'our work to build their own businesses at our expense.'
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Corson was chair of Guy Gannett Publishing, the company founded by her grandfather, until it sold its newspapers, including the Press Herald, to the Seattle Times Co. in 1998.
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Skowhegan residents do some fishing at Clearwater Pond in Industry.
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Jay lost $600,000 in state revenue-sharing because it used undesignated funds to cover its lower valuation.
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Thomas College will hold the in-person commencement on May 11 at the Alfond Athletic Center.
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Breast cancer death rates have fallen as treatment continues to improve. But breast cancer is still the second-most common cause of cancer death for U.S. women.
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Methylene chloride, also called dichloromethane, is a colorless liquid that emits a toxic vapor that has killed at least 88 workers since 1980, the EPA said.
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After court adjourned, the former president called the gag order 'totally unconstitutional.'
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Officers have taken protesters into custody after Columbia University called in police to end the pro-Palestinian occupation on the New York campus.
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Service expansions by Breeze, Frontier and other airlines could push summer passenger numbers to 2 million.