A $425,000 grant awarded to Main Street Skowhegan by the Economic Development Administration will allow a regional development plan to seek up to $50 million in federal dollars next year.
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Congress launches investigation into Osprey program after deadly crash in Japan last month
The government of Japan, the only international partner flying the Osprey, has also grounded its aircraft after the Nov. 29 crash.
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Gunman in Prague mass shooting had no record and slipped through cracks despite owning 8 guns
Authorities said the lone assailant had no criminal record and therefore did not attract the attention of authorities.
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Group pushes for change in how police use body camera footage in officer shooting probes
The technology has been key in cases like the death of Tyre Nichols, where body camera footage showed how he was brutally beaten by Memphis, Tennessee, police who are now facing criminal charges.
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White Christmas is becoming more of a dream than a reality in Maine
The state’s winters are getting warmer and wetter, and there’ll be no white Christmas this year, again.
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Biden pardons thousands convicted of marijuana charges on federal lands and in Washington
The president, in a statement, said his actions would help make the ‘promise of equal justice a reality.’
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UN approves watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities
The revised text was negotiated during a week and a half of high-level diplomacy by the United States, and the United Arab Emirates on behalf of Arab nations and others.
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East Dixfield man charged with drug trafficking in Farmington
Farmington Police Department seized 75 grams of cocaine and cocaine base, along with $3,260 in cash and a 9 mm pistol.
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Central Maine Athlete of the Week: Winter Week 2
Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel sports writers nominate high school athletes from the prior week’s games.
Readers vote for their top choice and the winner will be announced in the newspapers the following Saturday all season long!
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Police footage details unsuccessful check-in on Lewiston shooter
A pair of videos obtained by the Press Herald this week show that a Sagadahoc deputy and Robert Card’s Army Reserve commander were concerned that confronting him could escalate a potentially dangerous and put police officers’ lives at risk.