Maine restaurants, bars and clubs will soon get help verifying IDs, including high quality fakes. Maine Public reports the State Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations will make an app called Age ID available to 150 on-premises licensees. The agency’s deputy director Tim Poulin says the bureau will begin requiring the free use of […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s high court has tossed an appeal filed by a man who killed his ex-girlfriend in June 2015 and led police on the longest manhunt in state history. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld Tuesday the conviction of 41-year-old Robert Burton. He received a 55-year prison sentence last year. Burton argued […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A federal judge is tossing a lawsuit by a Republican incumbent congressman from Maine who lost the nation’s first congressional election held by a candidate-ranking system. Democrat Jared Golden defeated U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin after voters from two trailing candidates were eliminated and reassigned to the remaining field. Poliquin contends the […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor has settled with the ACLU over a lawsuit that charged his Facebook page was blocking the governor’s critics. The operators of Gov. Paul LePage’s Facebook page agreed to unblock certain critics in a settlement reached Friday. LePage doesn’t admit to the lawsuit’s claims he was censoring critics in […]