Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.
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Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Donald Trump stored, showed off and refused to return classified documents, indictment says
The indictment includes 37 counts, including willful retention of national defense information, obstruction, and false statements, that taken together could result in a yearslong prison sentence.
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Posted inSports
Central Maine Athlete of the Week: Spring Week 8
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!
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Why Donald Trump’s federal indictment is as breathtaking as it was inevitable
In one sense, it was breathtaking: the first ever indictment of a former president by the Department of Justice he once oversaw — and therefore the most important federal charge in U.S. history. In another, it was expected. Once Donald Trump had received a formal target letter from the department, his fate was effectively sealed. […]
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Mills announces plan to add 140 treatment beds to combat ongoing opioid crisis
The $6 million investment is the latest effort to reverse an epidemic that claimed a record 716 lives just last year.
Posted inAmy Calder, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: One man’s kind gesture has uplifting effect
Debra Brown’s opinion of people changed recently when Manny Price found her wallet in a Waterville parking lot, with a few hundred dollars inside, and took the time to return it to her, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inNation & World, News
A dam collapses and thousands face the deluge, often with no help, in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Thousands of people are believed to be trapped by floodwaters spread across a swath of Ukraine after a catastrophic dam collapse.
Posted inMaine Crime, Nation & World, News
Three states, including Maine, remove all time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits
Advocates for survivors of child sexual abuse say momentum is growing for completely removing the statute of limitations for such crimes.
Posted inNation & World, News, Sports
In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves
Baseball is steeped in the tradition of fans wanting to jeer the umpire.
Posted inBoston Red Sox, Sports
Ramírez hits 3 homers to power Guardians to 10-3 win over slumping Red Sox
José Ramírez homers in his first three at-bats and Cleveland prevails, 10-3, handing Boston its fifth loss in six games.