The Democratic congresswoman says she’ll decide by the end of the month whether to enter the crowded field hoping to succeed Gov. Paul LePage.
2017
Republican senator: Wealthy invest, others spend on booze or women
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley defends the Senate’s efforts to weaken the estate tax.
Former Kennebunk High teacher pleads not guilty to sexual assault, abuse charges
Jill LaMontagne has been charged with 14 criminal counts stemming from an alleged relationship with a student.
Trump says he feels ‘very badly’ for Flynn because lies to FBI have ‘ruined his life’
Flynn has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Administration’s attempt to repeal Clean Power Plan needs to be stopped
The EPA head is quietly trying to reverse the only federal limit on carbon emissions for power plants.
GOP’s idea of gun control
The first gun-related legislation since 58 people were killed on the Las Vegas Strip in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history won approval last week from a key House committee and appears headed for a quick floor vote. No, it’s not a much-discussed proposal to ban the notorious bump stocks used to deadly […]
CMP fixes ‘lightning arrester,’ restores power to 9,000 in Androscoggin County
The outage struck parts of Lewiston, Auburn, Norway and Oxford Hills.
Maine mother, son charged with theft of rare antique firearms
The guns from the early 1900s have a combined value of more than $20,000 and have not been recovered, police say.
Aaron Hernandez’s lawyers want to keep his daughter’s lawsuit separate
The NFL and its co-defendants want to fold it into a class-action CTE suit.