PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Canadian government says it’s investigating a series of encounters in which U.S. border patrols have approached Canadian fishing vessels in a disputed island area off the East Coast. The area in question is around Machias Seal Island, a 20-acre (8-hectare) rock island at the Maine-New Brunswick border. U.S Customs and […]
KITTERY, Maine (AP) — Maine Republicans are decrying an effort by some Democratic lawmakers urging Kittery Trading Post to stop selling assault-style rifles. In an open letter supporting the Maine store, Republican Rep. Heidi Sampson says Democratic lawmakers are harassing the business. WCSH-TV reports a letter from three York County Democrats sent their own letter earlier this […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A retired Maine state trooper accused of selling cocaine and fentanyl is going to prison for a year. A judge sentenced Jeffrey Linscott, of Buxton, on Monday under an agreement in which he pleaded guilty to a single count of trafficking cocaine. Linscott was arrested in December after selling drugs to […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage has started the week by vetoing 22 bills, including a funding proposal for the Downeast Correctional Facility. LePage this year emptied the prison, which has long faced shutdown efforts. But lawmakers have resisted him and voted to fund the prison for another year. In his veto […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says a Supreme Court nominee who would overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion would “not be acceptable” to her. Collins said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Roe v. Wade “has been established as a constitutional right for 45 years.” She said a nominee […]
HOWLAND, Maine – Maine State police say a 22-year-old man has died in a rollover crash. Authorities say Alex Malone, of Levant, was killed when his van left the road and overturned on Interstate 95 in Howland. The crash happened around 5 a.m. Saturday, and police say Malone wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and was ejected […]
Lawmakers have just denied a GOP senator’s effort to repeal voter-approved legalization of marijuana in Maine. The legislation would have let voters in November decide whether to repeal a law allowing the commercial cultivation, sale, purchase, possession and use of marijuana by adults. The House indefinitely postponed Republican Sen. Scott Cyrway’s bill Tuesday with a […]
An independent gubernatorial candidate is fighting to receive the public funds she is counting on, alongside over 200 legislative candidates. Elections officials discussed next steps Wednesday. State treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Terry Hayes says over 5,500 voters contributed $5 to help her qualify for public funds. An unintended error in Maine’s budget keeps candidates from […]
Governor Paul LePage is reportedly floating a new tax on hospitals to pay for voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Senate President Mike Thibodeau says he received word from the LePage Administration that the Governor is considering the idea. Thibodeau says such legislation would typically receive a public hearing. Mainers voted last Fall to expand Medicaid to over […]
Newly-released court documents have revealed additional information about what took place on the morning Somerset County Corporal Eugene Cole was shot to death. According to the police affidavit, after his arrest, 29-year-old John Williams told detectives that Corporal Cole interrupted him as he was trying to enter a home in Norridgewock in the early morning […]
