An officer became suspicious after he noticed an abandoned bicycle on Anthoine Street during Tuesday’s snowstorm.
2019
Homeland Security may require U.S. citizens be photographed at airports
In a report last year, the department said facial recognition is the best biometric approach at borders because it can be done ‘with a high degree of accuracy.’
Lost Valley celebrates earliest opening in 40 years
The mountain will open this Friday, a week earlier than originally planned.
Appeals court rules Standish man’s suit against Waldoboro police can proceed
The panel says the the officers misrepresented and omitted information in securing a search warrant that led to Jordan’s arrest on a felony theft charge.
Wisconsin officers on front lines in 2 student shootings
According to a survey, an estimated 43% of public schools nationwide have armed officers on campus.
Jews angered by activists’ use of Holocaust victims’ remains
A German-based activist group known for provocative stunts says the urn contains remains unearthed from 23 locations near concentration camps in Germany, Poland and Ukraine.
Brunswick council adopts climate resolution
Councilors unanimously approved the resolution, pledging to help “safeguard against the current and potential consequences of climate change, including adopting specific policy goals and funding accomplishment of those goals.”
Maine attorney general backs abortion providers in Supreme Court case
Nearly two dozen attorneys general filed a brief in an appeal of a Louisiana law.
Social networking is good news for Maine children in need
The Press Herald Toy Fund got lots of donations from Press Herald readers on #GivingTuesday, and fund organizers hope that spirit continues.
U.S. Marine charged with illegally flying guns into Haiti
Marine Sgt. Jacques Yves Duroseau told agents he wanted to travel to the island nation to ‘defeat the thugs’ that have aided in the country’s instability.