After decades of failed attempts, companies including Revivicor, eGenesis and Makana Therapeutics are engineering pigs to be more humanlike.
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Northern lights possible over Maine this week as active solar season flares up again
One of the most vibrant aurora seasons in years continues this summer as a medium-size solar storm is forecasted to arrive in Maine skies Tuesday night.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Most airlines except one are recovering from the CrowdStrike tech outage. The feds have noticed
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke to Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Sunday about the airline’s high number of cancellations since Friday.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, Morning Sentinel, News
Maine Supreme Judicial Court upholds St. Albans man’s child sexual assault conviction
Corey W. Farley, now 33, was sentenced to 23 years in prison after a Somerset County jury found him guilty of gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact.
Posted inBusiness, News
Working waterfronts from Kittery to Eastport to receive $21.2 million for storm recovery
Gov. Janet Mills announced that 68 Maine working waterfronts will get grants of up to $2 million apiece to aid recovery from catastrophic winter storms.
Posted inNation & World, News
U.S.-Russian journalist convicted in a secret trial in Russia, sentenced to 6½ years in prison
The conviction of Alsu Kurmasheva came on Friday, the same day that a court in Yekaterinburg convicted reporter Evan Gershkovich of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, News
New Hampshire man injured in rollover crash on I-95 in Waterville
The crash temporarily shut down one lane of Interstate 95 Monday morning.
Posted inElection 2024, Maine, Politics
Maine Democratic delegates vote to support Harris in presidential race
The delegates, as well as some superdelegates, attended a virtual meeting Monday night and voted unanimously to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee.
Posted inNation & World, News
Secret Service director, grilled on Trump shooting, says ‘we failed’
In a rare moment of unity for an often divided congressional committee, the Republican chairman and its top Democrat issued a letter calling on Kimberly Cheatle to step down.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
Randolph residents to vote on $1.6 million municipal budget
Randolph residents to consider a municipal spending plan that represents a less-than-1% increase over the current fiscal year.