SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A Maine manufacturing plant is ready to begin production of COVID-19 tests. Abbott Laboratories received emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the test, and production starts Wednesday at its production facility in Scarborough. The company expects to deliver more than 1 million testing kits per month that […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s largest electric utility is donating 6,000 masks to the Maine Emergency Management Agency to protect front-line medical workers from the coronavirus. Central Maine Powe said its parent company, Avangrid, rounded up 3,000 surgical masks and 3,000 N-95 respirators that were sent to the MEMA ofices Monday morning. The state is […]
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Maine man charged with murder in the death of his wife is expected to stand trial in about a year. Prosecutors and defense attorneys have agreed to begin the trial of 40-year-old Frederick Allen Jr., of Newport on Feb. 22, 2021. He was charged with murder after police found the […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) A company paid $500,000 by Maine regulators to study the state’s electric grid may have been ineligible to receive the contract based on conflict of interest rules. London Economics International was the winning bidder on the study and was tasked with evaluating the pros and cons of converting Maine’s two investor-owned electric […]
Augusta, ME (AP) – Maine lobsters need to arrive alive at their destinations, and a proposal before the Maine Legislature is aimed at making it more certain that happens. Democratic Sen. Eloise Vitelli of Arrowsic introduced a bill on Tuesday that would exempt truck drivers transporting live lobsters from some hours-of-service restrictions. Vitelli said the […]
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) – Maine’s secretary of state says presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent inaccurate voting information to state residents. Matthew Dunlap said Tuesday that “several voters” recently received a mailing from the Democrat’s campaign that suggested any voter could participate in the March Democratic primary. Dunlap says the […]
The trial is set to begin for a Maine man charged with killing a neighbor with a machete and hiding his body under a pile of rotting deer carcasses. Lawyers planned to deliver opening statements Monday in the trial of Bruce Akers of Limington. He’s accused of killing Douglas Flint, 55, on June 9, 2016, […]
Maine State Police say a body has been found in a home that was destroyed by fire in Fort Fairfield. Spokesman Steve McCausland says investigators found the body in the basement Monday night and believe it’s the 90-year-old homeowner, Dawn Findlen, who lived in the home alone. Fire investigators say cause of the blaze is […]
Astronaut Jessica Meir will be leaving the International Space Station for a pair of spacewalks this month. The Maine native and fellow astronaut Christina Koch are scheduled for spacewalks on Wednesday and again on Jan. 20. They’ll be completing the installation of new batteries that store energy generated by the space station’s solar array. The […]
Gov. Janet Mills and Democratic legislative leaders have unveiled a health care proposal aimed at removing some copayments and combining markets to lower health care costs. The bill would let Maine manage parts of the exchange under the Affordable Care Act, combine the small group and individual markets, and cover yearly primary care and behavioral […]
