PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Regulators say the U.S.’s only significant fishery for baby eels will not be allowed to expand next year. Maine fishermen seek the elvers in rivers and streams so they can be sold to Asian aquaculture companies. They often fetch more than $2,000 per pound, and the state is limited to a […]
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a resident of Guatemala has been sentenced to time served for illegally entering the United States through the border of Canada and Maine. U.S. Attorney Halsey Frank says 27-year-old Edwin Antonio Paiz-Morales pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday. A federal judge sentenced him to time served, which […]
ROCKPORT, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman is due to be sentenced for a fatal stabbing in the town of Waldo. Victoria Scott was convicted of manslaughter in the death of 43-year-old Edwin Littlefield, who was found dead outside a friend’s home in February 2017. The sentencing is on Wednesday for Scott, who claimed she […]
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 […]
