The movement to host and help immigrants living illegally in the U.S. defies a crackdown promised by President-elect Trump.
2016
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Washington state sues Monsanto over chemicals known as PCBs
The state seeks damages from Monsanto, the sole U.S. manufacturer of the toxic industrial chemical, but the company says the suit ‘lacks merit.’
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Pope defends communion suggestion
Most bishops back opening communion to civilly remarried Catholics, he says.
Posted inMaine, News
Mainers reflect on meeting John Glenn, ‘low-key’ astronaut and national hero
After becoming the first American to orbit earth, Glenn came to Maine several times while running for president.
Posted inLifestyle, Nation & World
The polar vortex is coming: Here’s how cold it could get
What will likely be the coldest air since last February will barge into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast late next week.
Posted inMaine, News
Silenced St. Mark’s bells to find new life beyond Augusta
The congregation is starting the process of selling its west side church property to help fund its service to the community.
Posted inPolitics
Rudy Giuliani no longer in running for secretary of state, Trump says
The president-elect returns to the campaign trail, encouraging Louisiana Republicans to vote in Saturday’s runoff election.
Posted inMaine, News
Two men indicted in Memorial Day shooting in Portland
Fred O. Dodge and Sam Iserbyt are both charged with criminal threatening after the two fought over a mutual friend.
Posted inMaine, News
Civil suit filed in case of woman who fell to death from second-story Waterville doorway
Stacey MacDonald, 33, of Clinton, was found dead Dec. 26, 2015, outside 160 Drummond Ave. after she apparently fell from an exterior door on the second floor that did not yet have a balcony.
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New House speaker, LePage agree to resolve impasse on forensic psychiatric center
Rep. Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, says a meeting with the governor was productive and led to a plan for moving forward in the coming weeks.