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 […]
