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Trump now says son's meeting with Russian lawyer sought info on Clinton
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump appears to have changed his story about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is pivotal to the special counsel’s investigation, tweeting that his son met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to collect information about his political opponent. “Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about […]
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Clinton police say man strangled woman, threw her in a ditch
CLINTON (AP) — Police say they are searching for a man who strangled a woman and later threw her into a ditch in Maine. The Clinton Police Department says in a Facebook post the alleged assault happened at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. The woman told police that the 30-year-old suspect, Jonathan Petgrave, first strangled her to […]
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Clinton, Skowhegan, Winslow move forward with limiting retail pot establishments
PORTLAND — Three more Maine towns have taken steps to limit retail marijuana establishments. Maine voters in November narrowly approved a referendum legalizing marijuana. The Portland Press Herald reports Clinton, Skowhegan and Winslow have each moved forward with restricting retail marijuana establishments. Clinton’s board of selectman voted Tuesday night to put an emergency moratorium on […]
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Website posts Maine pleas to electors to stop Donald Trump
More than 340 Mainers have written open letters to members of the Electoral College, most of them pleading for electors to nullify Republican Donald Trump’s Election Day victory. Typical is one from Gracia Holt of Freeport who told electors, “You must not elect Donald Trump! He is mentally unbalanced, inexperienced, incapable of governing, guilty of […]
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Bernie Sanders could get an electoral vote in Maine
David Bright, a political activist and organic farmer from Dixmont, felt the Bern big time this year. He said Thursday he hoped U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders would wind up in the White House and confessed he is mulling one long-shot possibility that might still put the Vermont progressive in the Oval Office. Both Sanders and […]
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Sen. Susan Collins: ‘I learned so much from defeat’
LEWISTON — Four-term U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who declared in August that she couldn’t vote for Donald Trump, opted on Election Day to write in House Speaker Paul Ryan for president. The Maine Republican said she doesn’t always agree with Ryan, but he is “a person of great character” who’s not afraid to take […]
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Election results greeted with hope and doubts
LEWISTON — The election of celebrity businessman Donald Trump as president left some residents shocked and others giddy Wednesday. “I love the fact that Trump got elected,” Clinton Spence of Lewiston said. “We really need change.” Over lunch at Simones’ Hot Dog Stand, Jeff Simonton said people favored “the lesser of two evils” in tapping […]
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Voters happy that it’s all finally over
After a seemingly endless slog of insults and advertisements, voters on both sides of the political divide could agree on one thing Tuesday: They’re relieved that it’s finally over. “I’m just so tired of the whole thing,” Deborah Powell of Lewiston said. She called the election “the worst ever.” The results main event on Election […]
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GOP panel pushes Cain about backing Clinton
The National Republican Congressional Committee this week pressed Maine Democrat Emily Cain to say whether she’s still backing her party’s presidential candidate. What makes it an odd twist is that her opponent, U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, the first-term Republican from Maine’s hotly contested 2nd District, has made it clear to this point he will not […]