PORTLAND (AP) — Police have arrested three people in connection with the assault of a woman at a South Portland motel room that left her badly beaten. Officers were dispatched to a Main Street motel shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday following reports of the altercation. There, police found that the victim’s room was trashed and […]
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Police charge three with assaulting woman at South Portland motel
PORTLAND (AP) — Police have arrested three people in connection with the assault of a woman at a South Portland motel room that left her badly beaten. Officers were dispatched to a Main Street motel shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday following reports of the altercation. There, police found that the victim’s room was trashed and […]
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Credit union customers in Belfast report account thefts
BELFAST (AP) — Authorities are urging customers of a credit union in Belfast to check their accounts after dozens of people said hundreds of dollars were stolen from their accounts. Police say someone apparently installed a skimming device in an ATM at the Down East Credit Union branch on Saturday. Police Sgt. Daniel Fitzpatrick says […]
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Maine lawmaker targets taxpayer dollars for post-election parties
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Republican legislator wants to ban taxpayer money from flowing to post-election celebrations. The bill would prohibit candidates from using the Maine Clean Election Fund for parties following elections. The fund makes public money available to qualifying candidates and sets limits on how much money can be spent on post-election parties. The […]
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Maine DOT messaging through signs
One of the new creative signs the Maine Department of Transportation is using to get drivers’ attention and combat distracted driving. They’d like you to be safe. And if you laugh, even better. The last three months, the Maine Department of Transportation officials have started using short, funny notes on oversized highway signs to get […]
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Collins, King, Pingree urge LePage to drop fight against North Woods monument
Northern Maine accepts the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument and so should Gov. Paul LePage. That’s the message from Maine’s two U.S. senators and Rep. Chellie Pingree in separate statements released Wednesday and Thursday. They said LePage was wrong to ask President Donald Trump to reverse an executive order that created the monument and return the land to private ownership or […]
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Maine AG: Sellers of supplements deceived consumers in $6.5M scam
AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine attorney general’s office and federal authorities have filed a complaint against three corporations and six individuals accused of falsely advertising, marketing, distributing and selling pills for joint pain and memory problems. The Portland Press Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2meFf7q ) the consumer fraud lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in federal court. Two […]
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Airbnb hosts earned $26 million in Maine last year
PORTLAND (AP) — Data from Airbnb shows that hosts using the online home-sharing service earned about $26 million and hosted about 174,000 visitors in Maine last year. Airbnb allows people to advertise their rooms, apartments and homes for a relatively short period. The data released Wednesday shows that the majority of Maine rentals were in […]