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Russia launches 99 drones and missiles on Ukraine’s energy system, officials say
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Week In Photos March 22-29, 2024
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Building new Key Bridge could take years – and cost at least $400 million
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Amy Calder
Reporting Aside: Waterville highlights youth art
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Politics
Susan Collins won’t vote for Trump: ‘I don’t think it should surprise anyone’
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Biden approves $60 million in aid after Baltimore bridge collapse
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Maine lawmakers scrap bill to decriminalize drug possession; opt for study instead
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Last coal-burning power plant in New England set to close in a win for environmentalists
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Stock market surge rewards S&P 500 with best start since 2019
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House narrowly approves bill to send fewer youths to troubled prison
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Amazon bets $150 billion on data centers required for AI boom
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March 28In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, 11 states led by Kansas argue that President Biden overstepped his authority in creating the SAVE Plan, which was made available to borrowers last year.
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at 7:01 AMKevin Lully, who worked his way up the ranks of Augusta Police Department for the last 29 years, has served as interim chief since November.
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March 28An Augusta man says Melvin 'Mickey' Boutilier, who died in 2012, starting abusing him when he was a child in the 1960s.
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at 8:01 AMSchool officials are expected to present the proposed spending plan Tuesday to the City Council.
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at 9:21 AMGagnon's platinum ticket allows her to skip the first round of Hollywood Week competition, airing Sunday. But on Monday's show, she'll likely find out if she's one of the top 24 singers competing for the rest of the season.
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March 28Several Democrats joined solid Republican opposition to reject legislation that proposes a first step in judging utilities' performance when setting rates.
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March 28Cases declined sharply at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but have been rising since.
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March 28Thursday’s order came after South Africa sought more provisional measures, including a cease-fire, citing starvation in Gaza. Israel urged the court not to issue new orders.
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March 28Prosecutors said Bankman-Fried had cost customers, investors and lenders over $10 billion by misappropriating billions of dollars to fuel his quest for influence and dominance in the new industry.
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March 28Among the changes announced, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.
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March 28Darren Laney Jr. was found dead at the Cumberland County Jail on Friday. The medical examiner's office said it is still investigating his cause of death.
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March 28The Maine Supreme Judicial Court disagrees with a Readfield couple who argued that the ban contradicts a 'right to food' amendment voters approved in 2021.
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at 9:00 AMThe bill would look at the feasibility of running a passenger rail between Portland and Bangor, with stops in Lewiston, Auburn, Waterville and just west of Augusta.
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March 28The evolving process often reflects changes in social attitudes and immigration, as well as a wish for people in an increasingly diverse society to see themselves in the numbers produced by the federal government.
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March 28The Wall Street Journal reporter and Bowdoin College graduate is the first U.S. journalist taken into custody on espionage charges since the height of the Cold War.
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March 28The legendary American mountaineer Lou Whittaker was matter-of-fact about the risks of mountaineering and said he didn't want to die without knowing he'd lived.
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March 28The proposed $23.7 million spending plan is 22% greater than the current spending plan, but because revenue that county officials have tapped in the past has either decreased or is no longer available, the portion proposed to be raised by county taxes has increased by nearly 44%, to $20.5 million.
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March 28The Portland International Jetport has reduced its proposal by 100 spaces, but that might not satisfy residents of a Stroudwater neighborhood concerned about the $8 million project.
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March 27The plan is to look at the roof, heating system, brickwork and other issues.
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March 28The Judiciary Committee also will soon take up a last-minute bill that would put in place 'an improved crisis intervention order' for restricting access to firearms when people are deemed to be a threat.
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March 27The robot, manufactured by a Massachusetts company, was deployed during an armed standoff in Barnstable.
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March 27The measure would enact strict limits on when a company can collect, store and analyze consumer information, while creating exemptions for nonprofits, educational institutions and hospitals.
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March 27Former Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 but dropped out after a weak showing in the early primaries.
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March 27Baltimore’s port is closed after the container ship Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, causing it to collapse into the water.
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March 27The council members pledged to 'execute a clear action plan aimed at restoring public and democratic order.'
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March 27Donald Trump complained on social media that the gag order issued Tuesday was 'illegal, un-American, unConstitutional.'
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March 27The administrative offices, IT department, EMA and Sheriff's Office would be in the building on County Way.
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March 28The Travis Mills Foundation’s annual Vietnam-Era Veterans Breakfast was held Wednesday at the Augusta Civic Center. The free event hosted 600 veterans and guests for breakfast, speeches and music by the Volunteer Improvisers. All photos by staff photographer Joe Phelan.
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March 28Nickerson Yard Maintenance recently opened a small hardware store in the town of about 3,000, and the family members who own it said it has been received with excitement — and nostalgia — from the community.
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March 28Landowner Leo St. Peter still needs to get approval from the City Council for the zone change to build a 725-kilowatt solar farm on Webb Road.
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March 27An early spring storm dumped snow and ice over much of the state, keeping many sugarhouses from opening on their most lucrative weekend.
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March 28The legislation gives enforcement authority on new permits, restoration of shoreland and allows municipalities and Land Use Planning Commission the right to place a lien on property with unresolved violations.
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March 27The investigation is the latest battle the social media company, which is already fighting against a federal bill that could ban the platform in the U.S. if it doesn’t break ties with its Beijing-based parent company.
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March 28Odds of a cloudy day are high, but hopes remain high.
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March 28The legislation would set required ratios in an effort to improve working conditions and ease a nursing shortage. Opponents say the measure would reduce access to care.
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March 27Banksy, who has never confirmed his full identity, began his career spray-painting buildings in Bristol, England and has become one of the world’s best-known artists.
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March 27The agreement came a day after the appointment of a new board member, replacing a DeSantis-appointed board chairman who was a Disney critic.
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March 27Town officials hope to continue working with the state Department of Transportation to minimize the impacts of the proposed Kennebec River crossing near Skowhegan’s downtown.
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March 27U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath said at a news conference that authorities had been informed that the ship was going to undergo maintenance. He added that they were not informed of any problems.
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March 27The Skowhegan Regional Chamber of Commerce, which owns the 62-foot-tall sculpture of a Native American fisherman, has offered the artwork to the town of Skowhegan, before seeking other potential owners.
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March 26The store on Wilton Road was locked down, Farmington police Chief Kenneth Charles said.
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March 26Food pantry, fairgrounds, community center and school are the recipients.
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March 26Educators, maintenance staff and supervisory staff at Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland outlined their concerns and demands in a letter to the Department of Corrections.
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Under the agreement, the special prosecutors would drop 3 felony counts against Paxton as long as he pays full restitution to his victims, and completes 100 hours of community service and 15 hours of legal ethics education.
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March 26Joseph E. McLaughlin of Readfield and Jamie M. Perry of Waterville were both indicted by a Kennebec County grand jury this month.
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March 27Some want a lower minimum wage for young farmworkers, while others advocate preserving the right to sue an agricultural employer for failing to pay minimum wage.
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March 26The Navy renewed a contract with ship-building company Bath Iron Works to continue services on three Bath-built Zumwalt destroyers.
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March 26Selectman Stephan Bunker and Budget Committee member Lloyd Smith were recognized for their many years of service.
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March 27In all, 203,809 CMP customers were left in the dark by storm outages.
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March 28More than 1,000 marijuana plants, over 30 pounds of processed cannabis, and other "drug paraphernalia and documentation" was confiscated when authorities executed search warrants at two residences in Norridgewock and one in Madison, according to Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster.
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March 27Gov. Janet Mills joined local officials Tuesday at a housing summit hosted by the Greater Portland Council of Governments focused on finding solutions to build more housing to ease the market and improve the workforce shortage.
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March 26The Select Board changed its April 22 meeting to 6 p.m. April 24 at the Town Office.
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March 26A moon chunk on display there weighs about 94 pounds and is the result of an asteroid striking the moon. It's on loan from a Bethel museum.
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March 26The charge amount is being lessened, but only temporarily.
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March 26Game wardens say the boy crashed into a corner of his family's garage while trying to park the vehicle.
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March 27The supermarket, which closed in late December after a historic storm caused significant water damage, is set to return with new self-checkout aisles and, eventually, a pizza and hot bar.
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March 26Seven hosts publicly criticized the decision to make the former Republican National Committee chair a paid contributor.
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March 26East Coast shipping – with trade in autos, coal and machinery – is likely to be the hardest hit.
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March 26The New York judge's order also prohibits the former president from making public statements about prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming criminal trial.
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March 28The Wall Street Journal reporter and Bowdoin College graduate is to remain in jail on espionage charges until at least late June.
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March 26A hearing next month will decide whether Marianne Smyth can be extradited to the United Kingdom over a scam dating back more than 15 years in Northern Ireland.
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March 27The mill's owners say they need more funding to repair damages from a storm last year and to address more than a dozen fire code violations within the building.
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March 26Rep. Michael Brennan, D-Portland, was taken to a hospital but a fellow lawmaker said he was expected to be released Tuesday.
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March 26Joshua Burdin, 32, of Strong was a suspect in a sexual assault investigation.
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March 26A consensus appeared to emerge among justices that the abortion opponents who challenged the FDA's approval of the medication and subsequent actions to ease access to it lack the legal right to sue.
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March 26His supporters say he is a journalist protected by the First Amendment who exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan that was in the public interest.
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March 26The war has killed over 32,000 Palestinians, left much of the Gaza Strip in ruins, displaced most its residents and driven a third of its population of 2.3 million to the brink of famine.
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March 26The cargo ship lost power and issued a mayday before hitting the bridge, enabling authorities to limit vehicle traffic on the span.
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March 25Some environmental groups say the rules that would allow for open pit mineral mining provide ample safeguards, but others demand more preliminary testing, smaller pit size limits, stronger reclamation standards and dark skies protections.
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March 25The member states were supposed to give final approval to the biodiversity bill on Monday. But farmers' protests of new environmental laws changed minds.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the gunmen who raided a suburban Moscow concert hall and killed 139 people were 'radical Islamists.'
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The suit stems from the state's decision last year to not count an Advance Placement course on Afridan American Studies toward state credit.
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March 25The brothers from rural Mount Aukum were hunting for shed antlers Saturday afternoon near Georgetown, a historic town about 50 miles northeast of the state capital.
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March 25People in the U.S. have until May 17 to submit tax returns for unclaimed refunds for tax year 2020, which total more than $1 billion nationwide.
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So far, efforts to create a viable syrup industry in southern Jersey 'have been very sweet,' says the director of the university project.
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Two law enforcement officials said properties in Los Angeles and Miami were searched by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement.