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Residents of long-term care facilities in Maine have begun receiving the new coronavirus vaccine in a major step toward broader vaccination of the general pubic. The roll-out began on Monday. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention has said more than 4,600 people have been administered the vaccine in the state. However, the state […]

Maine Gov. Janet Mills says she tested negative for the virus that causes COVID-19 after a member of her security team tested positive. In a statement distributed by her office Saturday, Mills says her case is proof that masks work. Mills says she rode in a vehicle last Saturday with a member of her team […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills says the state will dedicate more than $6 million to help residents who can’t pay their rent because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Democratic governor says the use of federal coronavirus relief funds will extend Maine Housing’s COVID-19 Rental Relief Program through December. Mills says states around […]

CLINTON, Maine (AP) — A teenage driver in a February crash that killed three youths has pleaded guilty in Maine. The 17-year-old from Clinton was 16 at the time of the crash that killed passengers 14-year-old Emily Baker, 12-year-old Ashlin Baker and 15-year-old Thomas Porfirio. He pleaded guilty to three counts of manslaughter on Friday […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump positioned himself as a friend of New England’s lobstermen, but members of the industry said they are looking forward to the possibility of stability under President-elect Joe Biden. Trump’s trade war with China led to a rocky few years for the industry, which is based mostly in Maine. […]

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine residents spent more than $250,000 on marijuana over the course of the first weekend of legal retail sales of the drug in the state. Voters in the state chose to legalize adult use marijuana in 2016, but retail sales didn’t become legal until this month. The Maine Office of […]

LEBANON, Maine (AP) — A woman who died in a fire at a home in the southern Maine community of Lebanon has been identified. The state medical examiner’s office said 46-year-old April S. Patch, of Lebanon, died from smoke inhalation. Rescuers found her body in an apartment over a garage early Sunday evening; she was […]