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The Biddeford Gazette mistakenly blasted its competitor Monday for allegedly claiming exclusivity in republishing a story from Maine’s largest paper.Randy Seaver, the Gazette’s editor, accused the Biddeford Buzz of stealing, and then claiming originality of, a throwaway column that first ran in the Portland Press Herald.Seaver, meanwhile, had taken the Buzz piece without confirming its ownership and reposted it on his website, bogusly labeling it as a Buzz “exclusive.” Yet he’s accusing Buzz founder Joshua Wolfe of a copyright violation?Seaver then apologized to his readers for mistakenly assuming that Wolfe claimed the piece was exclusively his, which was actually not…

A proposed sports arena got the heave-ho from Bangor councilors Monday after taxpayers said it’s too expensive.Besides the $75 million cost, skeptics told the council the project is essentially the same as one now being built by the YMCA downtown.City officials said at this point they would be looking at alternatives to building such a massive facility.The proposed athletic center would have replaced the aging parks-and-rec building on Main Street  as well as Sawyer Arena on 13th Street.Plans for the expensive taxpayer-supported sports complex came amid a $58 million Greater Bangor YMCA project already under construction.

The largest-ever mat of a thing called sargassum is headed west across the Atlantic toward Florida’s east-coast beaches.Sargassum is the term for giant patches of floating algae that originate in the Atlantic then head west on currents toward Florida and the Caribbean.Scientists say they are getting bigger every year – and now comes King of Sargassum, headed for Florida.The algae mat is estimated to weigh 12 million tons, the biggest one marine researchers have ever seen.Small sea creatures love to hide in it from predators when it’s floating in the ocean.OK, so far so good.But once it washes up on…

Since author Herman Melville in 1850 wrote about a fictional whale attack on a fishing vessel in his famous novel, everyone has wondered whether whales really attack ships.Finally the question is moot – they do.Scientists from University of St. Andrews in Scotland have aerial drone footage showing sperm whales using their heads as virtual ramrods.In Moby Dick, a whale head-butts a fishing boat in 1820 off the Galápagos Islands, destroying the 90-foot vessel.In an amazing juxtaposition of history, now a modern drone is confirming something that everyone wondered for centuries was reality or fiction.The answer is now verifying that Melville…

Looks like President Trump won’t be the July 4th invitee du jour at the Maine summer home of the country’s chief justice – 250th celebration of U.S. Independence or not.John Roberts, who besides being the nation’s top judge, owns not just one but two houses on Hupper Island in midcoast Maine, just east of Rockland.Roberts is also, apparently, Trump’s self-appointed conscience and babysitter, judging from the latest lecture he gave Trump for criticizing federal judges.Though not naming Trump by name, the St. George, Maine summer-island judge in a speech last week warned that personal criticism of federal judges is dangerous…

A petition has been initiated designed to prevent online giant Amazon from building a Gorham distribution center.The campaign has already amassed hundreds of signatures from across the state, not only in the town where the warehouse would be located.“Amazon is a bad deal for Gorham,” says the headline on the signature effort.The company is seeking town approval for a 158,000-square-foot facility on municipal property along Main Street.Amazon is slated to pay the town $4 million to buy the land.“Amazon’s proposal runs in direct conflict with Gorham’s Comprehensive Plan, which states that ‘our vision of Gorham is a neighborly community and…

A Brunswick woman who had been missing two months was found dead Saturday following an exhaustive search, authorities said.Rebecca Dorr, 56, disappeared in late January, the second time she recently walked away from her house.Brunswick Police, Maine Warden Service, Maine Search and Rescue Dogs and the Maine Association for Search and Rescue were looking for her. Dorr’s body was located Saturday morning in a wooded area near a network of trails, according to WMTW-TV.Mark Latti of Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said that the death is not considered to be suspicious.Dorr had first disappeared last year after walking away…

A 9,600-ton Bath Iron Works’ destroyer with missile-defense and anti-submarine warfare is on a new mission.The USS Gonzalez, launched 20 years ago from Bath, has officially set sail from Naval Station Norfolk to strengthen naval operations in the Atlantic, the Navy reports.The vessel’s deployment from Virginia comes after months of intensive training, maintenance, and certification.The destroyer and its 300-member crew will operate as part of the U.S. 2nd Fleet. As tensions mount in the Middle East, the Gonzalez’s mission highlights that the U.S. is also focused on other international threats from potential foes like Russia, reports InterestingEngineering.com.The deployment is designed…

When bucks are scraping trees with their antlers during mating season, they may be leaving a UV light message for their potential love interests, a new study shows.A wildlife researcher suspecting the scrapings may be a clue into male rutting confirmed his suspicion using a spectrometer, an instrument that measures the amount and wavelength of light that a surface emits, to examine deer scrapings on trees.Daniel DeRose-Broeckert found that the markings produce a significant glow under UV light, according to Wildlife.org. He knew that white-tailed deer are sensitive to shorter wavelength light – the kind of light responsible for blues,…

A widely-followed international foodie website is glowing over a Maine gas station’s high-octane pizza.Good pizza at a gas station?Not only good but great, according to Mashed.com.A radio guy named “Kid” at i95Rocks.com reports that Mashed singled out J Brothers Variety in Cumberland and Arundel as the go-to gas station for pizza.“The website Mashed is the ultimate destination for food lovers,” according to Kid.“When you think of getting pizza from the same place that you get gas, it probably doesn’t compute,” says the Kid. “No one ever thinks to eat pizza from a gas station or convenience store.”So when Mashed chose…

Amid the growing George Mitchell/Epstein files scandal, two more Maine organizations are reviewing plans to rename projects currently bearing the former senator’s name.√ University of Maine is forming a committee to explore renaming The Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and the UMaine Mitchell Peace Scholarship.√ Maine transportation officials are considering naming a new Islesboro ferry for someone other than Mitchell, who was their original choice.The possible rebrandings are the latest in a string of attempts by both Maine and international institutions to distance themselves from Mitchell’s connections to the so-called Epstein files.Though Mitchell has repeatedly denied he had any contact…

The U.S. Men’s Hockey Team player who had complained that NHL officials stole the “golden puck” from him is suddenly skating backwards.Golden boy Jack Hughes says he now can see the wisdom in his winning puck staying in a glass display case at the NHL Hall of Fame museum.“It’s an honor the puck is there,” he told reporters Thursday. “It’s like the most special place in hockey. I’m honored that it’s there.”Only a day before, Hughes said the fact that the NHL had taken his winning puck was “bullshit***.”He had said he wanted to give his father the priceless puck…

A taxpayer-financed $75 million rec center and ice arena is being proposed by Bangor city officials.The controversial city project will hinge on a council vote whether the city needs two similar sports arenas – one of which is run by a non-profit entity, the YMCA.Bangor planners say their project would require an annual tax increase estimated at $300 on a $250,000 home.The city rec center and ice rink is slated for a 40-acre Griffin Road lot across from Husson University.The new athletic center would replace two city facilities – the aging parks-and-rec building on Main Street  as well as Sawyer…

A “rogue” staff member at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services changed the automated phone greeting on one of the agency’s numbers to imitate a pizza shop message after an influx of protest callers flooded its lines.White Coat Waste Project, a MAGA-friendly group advocating against tax dollars being used for animal testing, recently rallied its supporters to call DHHS and demand it “cut funding for cat testing” at a National Institutes of Health-funded lab at the University of Missouri, according to Mediaite.The social-media post encouraging the phone campaign specifically named DHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and included…

United States Postal Service officials say things have gotten so bad it may be out of business by the end of the year. Unless someone comes up with a better funding mechanism or the service becomes a private company, mail delivery will soon be a thing of the past, they said. In a nutshell, the post office has become a victim of the internet – no one is writing letters anymore. And that means of course that no one is buying stamps.Email and Facebook messaging, both of which cost users not a penny, have become the go-to method for communicating…

The Maine Trust for Local News needs to be schooled on the meaning of “conflict of interest.”A new restaurant review in the state’s largest daily newspaper listed Miss Portland Diner among the 32 best eateries in Maine’s largest city. The diner is owned by – drum roll – Stefanie Manning, who when she’s not flipping eggs is the trust’s top executive.The food experts picking the paper’s 32 best food joints include restaurant owners, chefs and “food publicists.”The owners of Fore Street and Leeward are among the “experts.” What a shock that Fore Street and Leeward made the cut.But when the…

A behemoth great white shark last heard from off the North Atlantic coast is now lurking off the Florida shore.Named Goodall, the female great white measures just over 13 feet and weighs nearly 1,400 pounds.Goodall, whose radio transmitter last pinged just north of Portland, Maine 6 months ago, was spotted pinging about nine miles off Florida on St. Patrick’s Day, marine scientists report.The huge great white named for wildlife conservationist Jane Goodall was first tagged on September 30 before being released off Nova Scotia. The razor-toothed giant now joins its shark pack, as the species usually heads south along the…

Laurie Grant has one message for curious members of the public trying to figure out what the cops are doing crawling all over her home. “Stay off the property,” she told WGME-TV’s Sam DeCoste when he asked her what her message to the public is. Grant’s property has apparently been inundated with curious gossips wondering why police for the past two weeks have been poring over her Main Street property.To his credit, DeCoste got an exclusive interview with the woman who lives there with her son, daughter and boyfriend.The small landlocked town of Waterboro, located in the heart of York…

A third contender – claiming a mantle of bureaucratic reform – has emerged in what until now has been a two-way primary contest aimed at dethroning Maine’s five-term GOP senator.David Costello, a Democrat living in Brunswick who submitted the qualifying nominated petitions this week, likely can’t beat Janet Mills or Graham Platner.But the one thing he can do is spoil the race that so far has been all about them.The polls seem to give Platner a comfortable lead against Mills in the race for the GOP seat held by Susan Collins.But the unpredictable in the equation is what could make…

The wife of Democrat U.S. Senate contender Graham Platner – potentially his best defender against a new anti-women campaign assault – has mysteriously disappeared when Platner needs her most.The question is “Where In The World Is Amy Gertner?” Last we heard from Gertner was two long months ago when she announced a fertility journey that would take her and Graham to the country of Norway for IVF treatments. The trip’s announcement from Gertner and her Senate-hopeful husband came amid a campaign ad in which she famously touted his “great sperm.”But since then we’ve heard nothing from her. https://twitter.com/JanetMillsforME/status/2033861065289732184?s=20 Gertner was…

The state’s No. 3 standing nationwide as a top maple syrup producer apparently isn’t good enough for one of the nation’s largest discount outlets. Costco as it turns out isn’t even buying its popular pure organic syrup domestically but from … Canada.Mashed.com did an investigation of “the five best Costco products that fly under the radar.”It found that Costco’s maple syrup is among the five.Then, realizing how popular the chain’s syrup is, Mashed investigators began trying to figure out where Costco gets it from.Two Canadian companies – Citadelle and Lantic Maple – are the culprits that allow our northern neighbor…

How in the world could you leave out Bette Davis?That’s the burning question for the denizens of editors at the state’s largest newspaper. The Portland Press Herald in honor of Women’s History Month ran a stand-alone feature on “five women who made Cape Elizabeth history.”Not one of the five names would mean a thing to any of the readers. Not one.But the one name that would have, nowhere to be found in the story?Actress Bette Davis.Davis lived for years in the Cape with her husband, actor Gary Merrill, and their children.And it’s not like the Press Herald was unaware of…

The Pine Tree State’s most famous lifestyle icon says she may be about the only one who can afford a lobster roll this summer.“Lobster rolls are going to be more hideously expensive, like $60 each,” Martha warned. “This winter was cruel to the lobster production, and I just read that lobster rolls are going to be about $50 or $60.”Stewart, who owns a home in Downeast Maine, just opened her first New England restaurant, in Connecticut.“So I don’t think we’re going to be having (lobster rolls) at The Bedford,” the hospitality icon told MassLive.com, drawing a laugh.Haha.Marrha spoke to the…

The Portland Press Herald apparently feels it isn’t burning through enough cash trying its darndest not to break any stories.So it’s come up with a new scam called “Google News Initiative.”Google says it will be writing a $35,000 check to the Maine Trust for Local News for “innovative journalism.”Fret not, innovative news doesn’t entail actually covering the news. God forbid.It entails simply talking about covering the news.“The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources, and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.”Three reporters are going to split the cash embarking on projects they think…

A top Amazon official is lauding the company’s massive proposed warehouse, pointing out its economic benefits.But some Gorham residents are protesting the 146,000-square-foot distribution center as an alleged threat to their village’s quality of life.The facility is slated for a 94-acre town-owned Main Street plot zoned for industry it’s buying for $4 million.“Beyond improving delivery service for Gorham-area families and businesses, this facility would bring new jobs and contribute to the community’s economic growth,” Amazon spokesperson Amber Plunkett told WMTW-TV. “We look forward to partnering with the town and residents to continue the conversation about the positive impact this facility…

Democrat Graham Platner mistakenly thought he made points Tuesday countering Janet Mills’ attack ad.The otherwise-usually-charming U.S. Senate hopeful looked absolutely impotent, even forlorn, at his own news conference. And where was his wife when he needed her most? Apparently among the missing…Platner apparently thought the way to reply to a recent Graham-is-pro-rape fusillade from his primary opponent was to get a bunch of gals standing behind a lectern talking about what a great friend to women he is. But he failed to include his wife in the lineup. Platner looked uncharacteristically nervous, and downright scared, lurking on the sidelines as…

The Democrat U.S. Senate candidate from Maine known for offensive tattoos and great sperm now has a new claim to fame.His overalls.The New York Times says Graham Platner is now a fashion plate.The paper did a feature on the new thing in men’s fashion – overalls – and named celebs who are making a statement, including Rob Rausch, who frequently wore denim overalls during his recent appearance on the reality competition show “The Traitors.”“Others recently seen in overalls include Graham Platner, the oyster farmer running as a Democrat for Senate in Maine,” The Times says. “His campaign has released a…

The player who won historic gold last month for USA Men’s Hockey with a stunning overtime goal wants the puck.But NHL HOF officials say it’s theirs to protect and preserve.NJ Devils player Jack Hughes beat Team Canada with a shot at 1:41 of overtime to give the U.S. men their first Olympic gold since the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980.The Hockey Hall of Fame began displaying both Hughes’ overtime “golden goal” puck and that of Megan Keller, whose overtime goal delivered Olympic gold to the U.S. women’s hockey team in Milan.”I don’t see why Megan Keller or I shouldn’t have…

Maine native Patrick Dempsey says his latest acting role is a secret way to publicize a cancer center in his home state.Dempsey, who became an acting legend on Grey’s Anatomy, is now starring as a contracted killer battling early onset Alzheimer’s in a Fox psychological thriller.But Dempsey said fans still associate him with his long run on Grey’s, even with his new role in another series.“It gives me a platform to help talk about the Dempsey Center and the work that is being done there,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.“Grey’s Anatomy was “a blessing because it gives me visibility and…

A planned Maine data center could be canceled due to legislation that would ban such projects in the state, developers say.The facility is set to be built at the site of a former paper mill belonging to International Paper in Jay, a town in Franklin County.Developer JGT2 Redevelopment has reportedly reached a deal with Sentinel Data Centers to occupy 1 million square feet, according to DataCenterDynamics.com.However, the project may now be under threat due to the proposed bill, sponsored by state Rep. Melanie Sachs, D-Feeeport.The bill includes a two-year to development moratorium while the impacts of large data centers are…

Of the 85,000 registered snowmobilers in Maine, how many have ended up?Ended up – stranded on an ice floe.If you can think of your worst day on a sled, consider the plight – or flight – of your brethren in Mackinac, Michigan.Seems a snowmobile operator got stranded on ice near Mackinac Island. An aerial rescue was first attempted but blizzard conditions prevented local or Coast Guard helicopter teams from taking flight.The resourceful Coast Guard then went to Plan B.Guardsmen cautiously maneuvered a vessel to the edge of the ice, deploying a rescue team.The snowmobiler was experiencing mild hypothermia at the…

A fitness center has announced it’s vacating the Maine Mall, becoming the shopping mecca’s fourth loss in three months.The Orangetheory Fitness location at the South Portland mall is planning to close permanently on April 10, reports WCYY.com.The Maine Mall Orangetheory is inviting all current members to continue their fitness at the Westbrook location, part of the Rock Row development.Orangetheory Fitness initially opened at the Maine Mall more than seven years ago in what was once the Old Country Buffet space.Leggings Home departed the Maine Mall at the beginning of the year. Francesca’s and Eddie Bauer announced their store closures due…

The name Frank Lloyd Wright evokes structural design at its best in the world of architecture.But you homeowners will be gratified to know Wright was no more an expert than you when it came to making his houses leak-proof.The best example of the famous architect’s success and failure both is  “Fallingwater,” a house in the Pennsylvania woods built over a  waterfall. The dramatic house attracts nearly 140,000 visitors each year despite its remote location. Wright built the eye-catching structure in 1939 and architecture buffs are so enamored of it they’ve been trying to preserve it from, well, falling into the…

The age-old species known as horseshoe crabs is declaring a win over the drug companies.Two major pharmaceutical giants – Amgen Inc. and Abbott Laboratories – have announced they will no longer take blood from the crabs for research.Instead, they will shift toward using synthetic blood.It’s a big win not only for crabs but for shore birds along the Maine coast whose diet includes the chelicerates’ eggs.“Conservationists” have been complaining that taking the blood from crabs is a cruel and unusual punishment, and for what exactly?They argue that once a crab’s blood is taken and the creature is tossed back into…

The Maine Trust For Local News, which this week ran not only one but two stories on maple sugaring, has now published a piece about its hard-hitting journalism.The paper says it won “several New England Newspaper & Press Association awards in the reporting, photojournalism, advertising and special section categories.”The prizes were part of the 2025 New England Better Newspaper Competition announced at the group’s annual convention.There’s a reason they call it the “better newspaper competition’ – because winners need to get a whole lot better.That was the same convention at which the keynote speaker talked about what a dying industry…

Jane Fonda, known as much for hopping on an enemy tank during the Vietnam War than any movie she’s made, is aiming her guns now at Barbra Streisand.Anti-war activist Fonda is sulking that Streisand hogged all her time eulogizing Robert Redford at Sunday’s Oscars.“I wanna know how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford?” Jane quipped to Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party. “She only made one movie with him, I made four. I have more to say.”Streisand’s eulogy for Redford, who died in September at 89, is being panned by others…

The braintrust in Maine’s welfare capital just paid a consultant big money to ask taxpayers how unhappy they are.Portland officials with full cynicism on display paid $40,000 for the poll of city residents.The results: Half of the property owners aren’t happy with city spending. Maybe they wish the city were spending more? (LOL)Seventy-five percent said housing is too expensive. News flash. “I’m so glad we made the funds available to complete this work as this data will go far in helping us direct our policy work,” Mayor Mark Dion told the Portland Press Herald with a straight face.Too bad the…

The state’s junior U.S. senator is clutching his fake pearls blasting President Trump for a “damn lie” whitewashing of slavery by removing historic signs from national parks.But when Angus King decided to literally whitewash his own political record eight years ago by clandestinely going after Twitter accounts critical of his own history, all was above board.Like, seriously, when King took to the Senate floor recently emotively blasting Trump for removing park signs about slavery, he had to be kidding.But actually it was just another show from the Virginia transplant whose Maine political career was built on a taxpayer-financed TV show…

When Steve Collins first got hired by the Maine newspaper that publishes paid content from the state’s Democrat governor, he came out of the closet.Collins, upon his appointment as political columnist, announced he was a Democrat.“Since I’ll be writing a fair amount about state and local politics in this new role, I should tell you up front that I’ve been a Democrat since day one,” Collins proudly boasted a year ago.Not that it was a surprise by any means.“No party commands my loyalty,” he promised readers – or however many subscribers the Maine Trust for Local News still claims.Yet all…

It’s “old home days” for an Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer – the newest in the Navy – built in Bath, Maine. The USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG-124) floated March 13 into Boston Harbor for a scheduled port visit. During the layover, sailors assigned to the ship participate in community-engagement events and host public tours. “Our arrival in Boston is a meaningful milestone as our crew prepares to commission the Navy’s newest destroyer and bring this warship to life,” said Cmdr. Ben Cantu, commanding officer. Next month in Norfolk, Virginia, the U.S. Navy will commission the Barnum, the first vessel…

The legacy media is sworn to fear – else they would be asking New England Patriots officials about a star wide-receiver’s criminal charges.The Pats released wide receiver Stefon Diggs earlier this month, making him a free agent.But not because he’s charged with attacking a woman.The move was supposedly financially motivated, saving the team roughly $16 million in salary-cap space.But for some strange reason the Pats suits won’t talk about why finances – not an alleged felonious strangulation charge against Diggs – are at the root of his dismissal.They’re even not ruling out returning him to the team.Diggs has pleaded not…

Things are really going downhill when the state’s largest paper uses the whole front page to write about one of its own employees.The Maine Sunday Smellogram dedicated the entire cover of its Maine/New England section Sunday to a man who claims he’s visited every town in Maine – yet another thumbsucker feature.Since there were no other stories on the cover of the Maine/New England section, the Maine Trust For Local News is telling its dwindling readers this is the most important event or issue in Maine and New England. But wait, it gets better.The news staff didn’t independently verify how…

Funny how the very newspapers that are failing are the same ones that don’t cover news.The annual convention of the New England Newspaper & Press Association featured a speaker who said that “for the first time in American history, trust in journalism is now lower than Congress, which until recently held the lowest level of trust among the people.”That gem of recycled wisdom came from Rufus Friday, executive director of the Center For Integrity In News Reporting. For using that tired old boring line comparing failed institutions to Congress ought to be grounds for arrest.“Integrity In News Reporting”Apparently if you’re…

A midcoast Maine House seat is looking to go red after eight years trending blue, with no announced liberals so far in the race this year. Ray Thombs of Union announced he’s seeking the GOP nomination for House District 44, which represents Warren, Hope and Union. Thombs becomes the second announced Republican, the other being Brady Clark of Hope.”Many families and small businesses are feeling squeezed by rising costs and increasing regulations,” Thombs said. “We need leadership focused on restoring the conditions that help Maine thrive.”Thombs grew up in rural Maine and said his upbringing shaped the values that guide…

Registered nurses at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor say they’re walking off the job March 23.The strike notice to hospital administrators is the nursing union’s first since 2015.The RNs say they are protesting management’s alleged refusal to address their “concerns about safe staffing and nurse retention.”The nurses, whose contract expired in September, have been bargaining for a new contract since July.Nurses say that unresolved bargaining issues include safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, protecting nurses’ health insurance benefits from potentially exorbitant increases and ensuring all nurses receive same benefits.EMMC President Ava Collins said the Bangor facility provided the union…

Having run the state’s successful medical-marijuana campaign, Jonathan Leavitt has found a new calling – theater.Leavitt has now written, and will be directing, a show called “An Evening at Dave’s Sauna,” based on “a legendary Maine hotspot,” leather thongs, straps and jock-style harnesses included!The play, which has experimented at small venues, is slated to debut in full production this May at Stevens Square Theater in Portland. The show is based on some of the sauna’s regular customers, such as “Dave and Nancy – once had sex in a Walmart parking lot,” and “Masshole who once drove from Saugus, Massachusetts all…

The annual Maine Fungi Fest suddenly ain’t so annual.To wit, the Mainers who like shrooms have yet to find a facility willing to host their yearly get together this spring.Jonathan Leavitt, who has previously organized the fungi fest, decided after last year’s convention he would focus on other professional pursuits.First held in 2022, Maine Fungi Fest is an annual event celebrating “All Things Fungi, Plant Based Healing, and Evolving Consciousness.” As a sponsored project of Creative Oxford Hills, the festival convenes mycologists, foragers, chefs, and artists to learn and network.The event for the past four years has been hosted at…

Having once been ousted from the Freedom, Maine selectboard, a retired actress was hoping for political redemption.But voters Friday rejected Heather Donahue’s candidacy.The former star of The Blair Witch Project was trounced by Kory Boulier, who won the open seat with 92 votes.Donahue placed second in the three-way race, receiving only 79 ballots.The ex-actress was elected in 2024 to the board, only to be recalled last year after voters decided she overstepped her authority as an elected official.Donahue, who moved to Freedom in 2022, was penalized for spraying orange paint on a string of trees along Beaver Ridge Road in…

Three priests in three states are facing charges – including one for zoning violations while feeding the poor.The three separate cases, in Florida, California and Pennsylvania, each couldn’t be more strange, the only thing in common among them that they involve alleged illegal behavior of the “highest order.”The weirdest one may be a Florida priest, the Rev. Bob Caudill of All Saints Catholic Mission in Oakland Park, who faces over $500,000 in city fines for – true story – feeding the homeless.The fines, accumulating at $125 a day since 2014, stem from a longstanding zoning dispute after the city re-zoned…

Access Hollywood, known more by a silly remark by Donald Trump that Democrats falsely believed would be the end of his political career than by anything else, is going dark after 30 years in production.NBC Universal has announced it’s ending production of the show that liberals were sure would keep Trump from ever being president.Trump not only survived the famous “grab ‘em by the pu**y remark, he blossomed into president of the United States – not just once but twice.He made the comment to show host Billy Bush, who now does a podcast out of midcoast Maine.Just weeks before the…

The tragic midair crash over Iraq of two KC-135 refueling tankers involved planes identical to those based in Bangor.The reliable workhorse tankers have been in use by the U.S. military since the 1960s.The 101st Air Refueling Wing, known as the “MAINEiacs,” is the primary air refueling unit stationed at Bangor Air National Guard Base.As part of the Maine Air National Guard, it operates KC-135 Stratotankers to provide midair refueling support.One of the tankers involved in the crash Thursday, from California, went down in Iraq and the second one, from Maryland, landed safely in Israel, military officials said. Though the planes…

The apparent lagging of the Pingree name in Maine’s top state electoral contest might be needing a boost from the term-limited Democrat governor.But for some reason Gov. Janet Mills has been a no-show on gubernatorial hopeful Hannah Pingree’s endorsement list.Judging from the polls, the Daughter Of Chellie needs something – anything – to break out of the pack.The most recent survey showed the progeny of Maine’s southern-district congresswoman polling in fourth place.Hannah, a former Maine House speaker, more recently served five years as director of the Office of Policy Innovation and the Future under Mills.Then she decided to leave that…

The road that parallels the meandering Mattagodus Stream in a small northern Penobscot County town has become a literal dump.Not just pieces of occasional trash exposed from the melting snow of spring.But a slew of plastic garbage bags filled to capacity with household trash, some ripped open and spilling out, on the side of the road.The Maine Forest Rangers are seeking information on the illegal dumping along Route 169 in Prentiss Township.Ranger Wesley Hatch asks in a Facebook post that anyone with information to please call 207-973-3700.

When the liberal media heard the Pentagon had spent $22 million on lobster, all heck broke loose.Until they realized that Maine’s favorite dish was actually for the troops and not for military brass.The New York Post editorialized Thursday about the idiot late-night TV comedians who accused Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of treating himself and his commander cohorts to a multi-million dollar crustaceous extravaganza.As it turns out the seafood dinners were actually for troops leaving on deployment. “Late-night “comedians” Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Seth Myers, along with Paul Begala and other CNN blowhards, went big for a pseudo-story Wednesday,…

A high school athlete whose father killed three relatives at a recent hockey game scored the winning goal Wednesday to send his team into the Rhode Island state championship.An excited Colin Dorgan said the goal was “the best moment of my life.” The senior had only scored twice during his entire high school career heading into the Rhode Island state playoffs.The teen, who attends North Providence, Rhode Island, High School, plays for an area hockey team.The boy’s mother, brother and grandfather died when his father, Bath Iron Works employee Robert Dorgan, opened fire a month ago at a Rhode Island…

A Massachusetts police officer flipped on the blues during a stop in neighboring New Hampshire.Fine so far, maybe.Then, not so much.Problem is he’s not really a cop.Mikel Beltran, 37, was arrested by police in Londonderry, New Hampshire, impersonating a police officer.Beltran allegedly flashed his blues at another car, according to CBS News Boston.Two problems – Beltran is a fired Mass cop and two, blue lights are not allowed in personal vehicles in New Hampshire.So even if private blues were allowed in New Hampshire and cross-border authority were authorized, Beltran doesn’t hold certification as a law-enforcement officer.Beltran was fired from Lawrence…

An Iran-linked hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on a medical tech company whose clients include many Maine physicians.The attack appears to be the first significant instance of Iran’s hacking an American company since the start of the war between the countries, NBC News reports.The company targeted, Stryker Health, supplies robotic-assisted surgery equipment, much of it in use across Maine.Stryker, headquartered in Michigan, produces a range of medical equipment and technology.The company’s Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Surgery apparatus, which several Maine surgeons use, creates 3D-modeled knee and hip replacements.The technology helps orthopedic specialists pinpoint implant-positioning accuracy.

When Tony Dungy was asked recently on national television whether ex-Pats head coach Bill Belichick should be in the Hall of Fame, Dungy declined to answer.Dungy, himself a member of the pro football Hall of Fame, now says NBC has fired him.Though he won’t say it, his big “mistake” was refusing to publicly endorse Belichick, in whom the fawning New England Patriots fans can see no wrong.In a now-viral broadcast interview, Dungy last month wouldn’t disclose whether he voted for Belichick’s entry into the Hall of Fame, leading to intense criticism after the former star Pats coach failed to make…

A descendant of the Reese’s chocolate family was the wrong guy to try to sell fake candy to.Brad Reese, whose name you’ll associate with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, ran into a Florida convenience store last month and grabbed a bag of Reese’s Valentine’s candy.Once he threw a few pieces into his mouth, Reese says, “I took two bites and had to spit it out,” reports TheGuardian.com.Reese is a Reese’s aficionado who makes a point of trying everything the company produces. This isn’t a coincidence: he’s one of the Reeses, a grandson of HB Reese, the former Hershey dairy farmer who…

Even Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland’s wife is making jokes about his mysterious disappearance.McCasland, retired military, has been missing nearly two weeks from his Albuquerque, New Mexico home.He apparently had no dementia and he left his cell phone behind.McCasland, 68, once commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base – long rumored to house extraterrestrial debris linked to an alleged Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash in 1947.Wright-Patterson has long been the subject of conspiracy theories, with many believing that debris or alien bodies from the crash were moved to a hangar at the Ohio base.Debris found by…

The DEI Karens are declaring victory over the discount-retailer Target.After a year-long “boycott” organized by the crowd promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Target suits have cried uncle. Or maybe nowadays the more politically-correct aunt.On bended knee, the department-store brass now says they will invest $2 billion in black-ownwd franchises.Target officials saved face by saying heck folks that was always our plan.The 2,200-store chain “is more committed than ever to creating growth and opportunity for all,” the retailer said in a statement to Axios.Target said a year ago it was scaling back some diversity initiatives upon President Trump’s return to the…

The annual meeting of the state’s fishermen had a special treat this year – Jordon Hudson in knots.Hudson, the Maine-born slinky who hangs out with an ex-NFL coach 48 years her senior, made a big splash at last week’s tough-guy convention in Rockport.“Jordon Hudson Turns Heads With ‘Barely There’ Rope Dress At Maine Charity Event,” headlined Sporting News.“Jordon Hudson made a statement for marine conservation during a charity event in her home state of Maine,” Y Entertainment posted. “The girlfriend of North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick isn’t afraid to be bold and proved it once again.“Hudson appeared Saturday at…

Judging from the content in the latest edition of the state’s largest newspaper, the Maine Press Association has apparently come up with a new contest category:“Fluffiest PR Rag”The winner by acclamation has to be the Portland Press Herald, the hardest-hitting ‘newspaper’ east of the Mississippi. The paper’s so-called article on the Portland Museum of Art’s new deputy director pulled out all the stops.The museum’s new head of art and exhibitions “is an affable, good-looking 46-year-old with penetrating blue-gray eyes,” according to the newspaper of record. The question arises as to whether the paper’s art critic was on a journalistic mission…

A school in embattled Democrat former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell’s hometown has stripped his name from its marquee.Once again, Mitchell’s connection to convicted pedophile sexual trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has chipped away at his once-vaunted status.Meanwhile, while Mitchell’s name is now being pulled down from public institutions, Donald Trump’s is rising.A suburban New Jersey school district is considering renaming one of its elementary schools after President Trump, evidence seasons political.For the longest time, George Mitchell could do no wrong, especially after the former Senate majority leader as envoy brought peace to Northern Ireland.Irish institutions adopted Mitchell as their saint, his name…

The good news for the Portland Press Herald is that its malfunctioning paywall may have been fixed after 10 long days.The bad news is the paid subscribers now may believe they’re due rebates since they had to pay for content that others got to read for free for nearly two weeks.The state’s largest newspaper’s paywall went rogue late last month in what was supposed to be just a couple days offline.“Secret insider information,” the paper’s editor posted February 27 on the home page. “We’re tinkering with the website, and for the next couple of days, the paywall is completely shut…

Damn how a soulful walk into a New York City park by two innocent, wealthy teenagers can turn into a literal bomb on a nice warm spring day.After all, what’s to quibble with a walk in the park?Two impressionable Pennsylvania teens were just out to enjoy the beautiful change in seasons.Then suddenly they decided to throw bombs at the home of the New York City mayor.Not to worry, says the Clinton News Network otherwise known as CNN.The CNN brains posted on “X” a laughable pasting-over of the violent duo with a post reading as follows:Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New…

If you would like to own a virtual Maine village, Tuthill is looking for offers – virtual in that all it really lacks is its own ZIP code.The site includes a Greek revival house, an 1800s-era church, several antique barns, multi-bay garages and six additional homes.Twenty-one buildings and 40 acres in Pittston, Maine for $6 million.Realtor.com calls it a “picturesque hamlet.”The oddity of the real estate – a virtual village in private hands within a town – is triggering press coverage in news outlets far and wide.“The property would make a great wedding venue, event center, gathering place, or even…

A retrospective published by Major League Baseball officials of iconic former minor-league parks swung and missed on Maine.MLB officials are circulating online a story excerpted from the Baseball Traveler newsletter by writer Benjamin Hill headlined “Six Ballparks Live On In The Hearts Of Minor League Baseball Fans.”But the brain teaser is how Hill, who promotional material says “travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique,” didn’t include the park in Old Orchard Beach, Maine in his top-six list, let alone the Top One.The park, once coined by the nation’s leading sports magazine as “the most beautiful…

Maine has become the deadliest state in New England – and one of the most dangerous in the U.S. – for drug-overdose deaths.The state’s OD rate now rivals the Appalachian states at the epicenter of the opioid epidemic.The overdose rate surged nearly 82 percent in just three years, according to the Centers for Disease Control.The stats show Maine is the only northeast state – including even the biggies such as New York State – to crack the top ten worst nationwide.The overdose and suicide rates push the Pine Tree State to eighth-worst mental-health ranking in the U.S.Unlike most states that…

A Maine farmhand denied asylum in Ireland has been arrested in the killing and dismemberment of an Irish farmer for whom he had been working.Michael Kelley, 54, was arrested in Ireland last week on a murder charge.Kelley used to live in coastal Waldo County, Maine, just north of Camden, before leaving to seek asylum in Ireland.The former U.S. Army trooper allegedly killed Michael Gaine, a sheep farmer in Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland, last year.Gaine, 56, on whose farm Kelley had been a tenant, was reported missing a year ago by his family.Cops said they found Gaine’s dismembered body eight weeks…

The Way Way Store, which has it every which way, and from way, way back, is shutting down after a century in business. “For many people throughout Maine, their local general store is considered a lifeline,” reports WCYY.com. The store sells candy, ice cream, cold drinks, nostalgia and antiques and yes even canoes. “General stores are a place where you can get just about anything – from light groceries to takeout food, hardware and even a wedding gown if you know the right place,” the news outlet says. Shared on Facebook, the official Way Way Store page made a simple…

When two ex-WW1 heroes took off 99 years ago from France they hoped to become the first fliers to complete a non-stop flight across the Atlantic.But neither they nor their biplane were ever seen again.“Planes took off from everywhere including Portland, Maine looking for them,” says searcher and historian Ric Gillespie, founder of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery.Gillespie is “one of the world’s leading investigators of aviation cold cases,” says journalist Miles O’Brien, himself a pilot and flying fanatic.O’Brien and Gillespie are teaming up on a new podcast investigating the loss of L’Oiseau Blanc, also known as the…

A Presque Isle woman who recently released a book on the scandalous Maine child-care system has struck publicity gold.Sabrina Rose has been selected to appear on Kevin Lanning’s Apple podcast later this spring.“Rise Above with Kevin Lanning” is a worldwide-popular show focused on stories of recovery from addiction and resilience.Lanning, a former Google executive, overcame addiction to finally claim sobriety. Rose, who had hired a PR agent to publicize her story, decided to instead do it on her own, single-handedly nabbing a slot on his show.“I’ve been booked to appear on one of the biggest podcasts in the world,” she…

Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch,” a series about the day-to-day dangers of crab-fishing crews on the Bering Sea, has lost a deckhand overboard.Todd Meadows, 25, the newest member of the reality-TV crew, died after falling overboard from the Aleutian Lady in the Bering Sea late last month.The incident occurred near the end of filming for the season.The crew recovered Meadows from the water ten minutes after he fell in but he was unresponsive and couldn’t be revived. The show three years ago featured Linda Greenlaw of Maine, who flew to Alaska, joining the cast to break into the dangerous work of…

A family of long-finned pilot whales beached themselves and died – all to try to support a sick female member of their pod.The analysis of the stranding, which occurred three years ago on a Scottish beach, is the subject of a new report on the heartbreaking tragedy.Mainers will relate to the sad, upsetting tale since these whales are very common in, and indigenous to, the Gulf Of Maine.The whales, a regular, native species in this region, are commonly sighted from spring through fall, particularly between Cape Cod Bay and the Bay of Fundy, where they feed in large family groups…

A Carmel woman accused of assaulting a child at a Brewer daycare has been sentenced to a paltry week behind bars.Blake Sullivan appeared before a Penobscot County judge, taking the stand in tears as she apologized, WABI-TV reports.The incident,which occurred a year ago and was captured on camera, showed Sullivan slamming a child to the ground.The child’s family was not notified until more than a month after the incident.During sentencing, Sullivan’s family members addressed the court, describing the emotional toll the case has caused.They characterized the incident as a “poor moment” and emphasized to the judge that they do not…

The plane that crashed during takeoff out of Bangor earlier this year sat on the ground beforehand for nearly a half hour in an ice storm.Since federal transportation officials said Friday they’ve determined nothing was mechanically wrong with the plane, suspicion now turns to wing icing.The National Transportation Board’s preliminary findings show that the Bombardier Challenger 650 sat on the tarmac for roughly 24 minutes after being de-iced before it began its takeoff roll.The plane should have waited no more than nine minutes from when the deicing began before taking off in those cold and snowy conditions, according to Federal…

Eric Heal came upon a Bangor cop in distress trying to cuff a suspect wanted on a warrant.Officer Tanner Favreau was in a parking lot when she identified a passenger in a vehicle as someone who had an active warrant.He was uncooperative and resisted apprehension.During the struggle, Favreau attempted to radio for backup, but her radio traffic was not being transmitted. Heal approached Favreau and offered assistance.With Heal’s help, Favreau was able to safely subdue the man with the warrant and take him into custody.Without Heal’s assistance, the suspect may have been able to escape, or someone may have been…

If we’re fighting over Girl Scout Cookies is there any hope for this world?Three recent cookie incidents across America indicate that life ain’t so simple anymore.The Girl Scout troop in San Diego, California, has sued the company that makes the cookies, alleging a $1.1 million contract breach.The suit alleges that Little Brownie Bakers broke a contract and tried to force 22 percent price increase.As if that weren’t enough of a blow to America as we know it, a Girl Scout troop in Burlington County, New Jersey is facing backlash from regional scout leaders after setting up a cookie booth outside…

Curtis Robinson was fearless as a reporter, never afraid to afflict the comfortable.But perhaps Robinson’s biggest accomplishment was being idealistic enough to go head to head with Maine’s largest newspaper.Robinson with two colleagues started a gutsy tabloid in Portland years ago on nothing but a wing and a prayer.The free Portland Daily Sun without apology ran streamlined quick hits and some local opinion stuff.The paper wasn’t just another liberal rag but a crime sheet with a dash of lifestyle columns that made reading it downright refreshing.The Sun really was a dream, not only for the few readers it was able…

John Daly once said the only way he meets his daily water-intake requirement is the ice in his whiskey.Daly has two majors under his belt, the thing that holds up his colorful flower-bedecked pants while he’s playing. Or drinking.To see John Daly named Ambassador of Golf means America doesn’t necessarily lack a sense of humor.The Kaulig Companies Championship and Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation will honor Daly this summer as the 2026 recipient of the award presented by Northern Ohio Golf Charities & Foundation, PGA Tour Champions announced on March 4.He’ll be joining a list of notable people, including three…

The U.S. submarine that fired the torpedo last week sinking an Iranian warship was reportedly of the Virginia class – a type frequently serviced at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery.The attack was the first confirmed instance since World War II of a U.S. submarine sinking an enemy vessel using torpedoes.Video circulating online appears to show footage captured from a U.S. submarine.The recording shows the Iranian vessel rising sharply after being struck, followed by a large plume of smoke. The stern of the ship appears to lift partially out of the water after the torpedo impact.Pentagon officials haven’t confirmed the…

A Maine coastal community known as much for its money as its breathtaking shoreline has decided if you don’t live there you can’t use its public beach.Put down Cape Elizabeth, Maine as a town so rich it doesn’t have to care.Municipal officials under the cover of darkness (also known as winter) have decided to ban all parking near Cliff House Beach.First they restricted nonresident parking on Sea View Avenue leading down to the beach, so visitors had to find parking on Shore Road.Now they’ve gone a step further – prohibiting visitor parking along Shore Road and surrounding streets.“These changes are…

A lagging Democrat contender in Maine’s gubernatorial primary race apparently feels it’s time to get some needed effing attention.Not only for himself, apparently, but also for his fellow Democrat, U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner.How better to do it than show how effing manly you are?In a new video campaign ad that has gone viral over the internet, Troy Jackson goes full-scale obscene as he endorses the man he calls “brother.”“I’ve been in the Maine Legislature for 20 years,” Jackson says as he and Platner stand over a pool table, trading shots, so to speak. “I’ve seen people with power and…

Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner is blaming his own party for trying to get him out of the race to make room for Janet Mills.Even before Platner entered the race, he says in an interview with Slate magazine, his campaign “received messages from Washington, from the national-level party, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,” that it was Mills, the term-limited governor, who would be the nominee.“Very early on, we received very clear warnings that I had no right to do this, that they were the ones who choose,” he says. “They had a candidate they had chosen: Gov. Mills. She…

Gotta hand it to Ron Johnson for actually voting to cut your taxes when the alternative would have been much easier.The Republican senator from Wisconsin just killed a bill designed to let certain veterans collect, in essence, two retirement salaries.Under current federal law, roughly 54,000 medically-retired veterans can’t collect both retirement pay and disability compensation.Instead, the benefits are offset against each other.A proposed revision aimed to change that.The legislation would allow combat-injured veterans with fewer than 20 years of service to receive both benefits.Veterans in his state are blasting Johnson, and of course they are. They won’t be allowed to…

The age-old requirement that college seniors must pass a swimming test is being dumped due to fears it discriminates against people of color.Dartmouth College just became the latest school to drop a mandatory swimming test from its graduation prerequisite.In doing so, the Ivy League school joins a handful of other elite institutions that have abandoned their swimming requirements in recent years, including Williams, Hamilton and Washington and Lee.“The shift says less about the merits of staying afloat than about universities’ preoccupation with racial equity,” reports The Economist.Schools with a swimming test as part of their diploma obligations have been doing…

The Blair Witch is seeking political redemption in a Maine town where voters fired her last year amid a bitter property dispute.The witch’s name on Friday The 13th will appear as the more common Heather Donahue.March 13, a Friday, townspeople in a town called Freedom, Maine will go to the polls to decide whether Donahue will get another term on the selectboard.Donahue was removed from the board last year after she allegedly overstepped her municipal authority.The retired actress, who moved to Freedom four years ago, was grounded for allegedly vandalizing trees along a road that’s the center of a protracted…

Ex- Freeport Police Chief Susan Nourse knows about breaking glass ceilings.After all, she’s been one of the few female top cops Maine has ever had.So it’s more than fitting that Nourse would hop in a replica of a 1914 car and embark on a cross-country trek lobbying for the Equal Rights Amendment.The 64-year-old ex-chief is helping a campaign to reenact the trip two suffragists took in 1916 when they drove from New York to California and back in a two-seater that had to be cranked to start.The goal then – 110 years ago – was the ratification of the 19th…

The Democrat Gov. Janet Mills administration went crying to Maine’s largest daily Wednesday – the paper she counts on for a hug when the chips are down.The Portland Press Herald ran a piece quoting a Mills spokesman decrying The Maine Wire for allegedly being in bed with President Trump.The Trump administration last week notified The Maine Wire it was rejecting Mills’ request for more time to defend her embattled, allegedly fraudulent Medicaid program.“The flap stemmed from a U.S. Office of Inspector General report in January that outlined $45 million in potential improper payments for autism support services in the MaineCare…

The human Weiner Mobile is back!Carlos Danger, which was ex-U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY’s screen name, came out of the closet this week on The View.No not that closet, silly.The closest in which he’s been hiding since he became a convicted pedophile.“🚨 HOLY SHIT — The Jewish sex offender Anthony Weiner appeared on The View, signaling a potential political comeback and a possible run for office,” Dr. Simon Goddek posted for his 1.1 million followers on “X.”“When confronted about his past, Weiner attributed his behavior to addiction and claimed he is a changed man,” Goddek said. “He is now asking…

The so-called independent U.S. senator from Maine blasting Trump’s heeling Iran has been talking a vacuous game on taming Khamenei for a full decade now.Ten years ago Sen. Angus King, participating in talks designed to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, indicated time was running short.“The purpose of this potential agreement is to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon,” King said in 2015. “There’s only one thing worse than an Iran that is working to support terrorism and destabilize other regimes – and that is an Iran doing those things while armed with a nuclear weapon.”Fast forward 10 years,…

The 24-year-old from Maine and girlfriend of former Pats head coach Bill Belichick says GOAT Tom Brady ain’t got nuthin’ on her.This recent reference from Hancock, Maine native Jordon Hudson to seven-Super Bowl winner quarterback Brady is raising eyebrows for obvious reasons.Belichick and Hudson went public with their relationship two years ago and have since faced scrutiny over their nearly 50-year age gap.On February 28th, Hudson took to Instagram and wrote, “For the record, a 24-year-old flyer is the equivalent of a 42-year-old quarterback,” according to I95Rocks.com.Hudson shared a photo of a ‘Be Old’ pin alongside a large cheerleading ring,…

Given President Trump’s uneasy relationship with the liberal, fake-news White House Press Corpse, he could be forgiven for not attending its annual dinner. But Trump says he’s going to be there next month for the yearly event known for featuring a celebrity comedian who pokes fun at the incumbent president, whether he be Republican or Democrat.In Trump’s case, it was actually at the White House Correspondents Association dinner 15 years ago when he apparently decided he was going to be running for president.It was at the dinner in 2011 when the incumbent, Barack Hussein Obama, who besides being president thought…

The political party that took hold in Vermont’s largest city when the socialists won a mayor’s race there 45 years ago has proven nothing is more dangerous than a leftist armed with maple syrup.The “centrist” Democrat Party in Burlington, Vermont is accusing the Zohran Mamdani/Bernie Sanders Wing of the Democrat-Socialist Party in that alleged bucolic college town of spreading lies about its city council candidate.But that’s where things get sticky.The Democrats claim that the Burlington socialists accused their council candidate’s father of spreading maple syrup on the ground at a downtown parking garage used for a daily free-food giveaway for…

OK, enough of the Nazi tattoo already.Can’t we get back to the fun stuff like the “Great Sperm?”You remember, the good ole days, right?When Democrat U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner’s wife was talking about how manly he was? “I can say that, right?” as she coyly asked in a TV campaign commercial in which she gushed over his virility, exclaiming “Graham has great sperm.”Doesn’t that stand for anything anymore? Sources say Graham Platner is all in – he is begging us to get back to his sperm count. After all, if given a choice, which would you rather talk about…

Who in their right mind keeps a dozen cats in an unoccupied trailer insufficiently- or dangerously-maintained with a space heater?Cops say 11 of them luckily survived a fire triggered by a faulty propane heater in an outbuilding behind a Hollis residence.A twelfth kitty was apparently unaccounted for after the fire.The structure used to shelter 12 cats caught fire Saturday morning.Officials say all but one of the cats have been accounted for and are allegedly in good hands.The Hollis Fire Department said they responded to Hollis Road, where smoke was reported coming from the structure.Firefighters made entry and extinguished a fire…

The contributions of the state’s military assets are gaining prominence as the nation’s best tame the beast known as Iran.Besides two guided-missile destroyers that were built at Bath Iron Works being deployed, a major Maine airport is now reportedly being used as a launch pad for flying fueling beasts.A widely followed website on the social media platform “X” reports that more than a dozen U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers were launched Monday from bases around the U.S., some of which “appear to be stopping in Bangor, Maine to rest & refuel before pressing onward.”The Bangor air field is traditionally a…

An Edgecomb man accused of beating a young girl to death has been found guilty, state officials said.Tyler Witham-Jordan was charged with murder in connection with the death of 3-year-old Makinzlee Handrahan on Dec. 25, 2022. Witham-Jordan was the boyfriend of Makinzlee’s mother.Prosecutors said Witham-Jordan was experiencing opioid withdrawal on that Christmas morning and was mad at his girlfriend’s children, WMTW-TV reports.Cops used DNA evidence found inside the upper waistband of the girl’s bloody diaper and under her fingernails.There was also a broken hairbrush with large clumps of Makinzlee’s hair stuck in the bristles, authorities said.Witham-Jordan was arrested on Oct.…

A study by a conservative media watchdog shows that the four major search engines are heavily promoting mostly liberal news.So now the numbers confirm what we’ve long suspected.Dan Schneider of the Media Research Center calls the approach a “subliminal form of propaganda” that could potentially be illegal, arguing that these platforms are suppressing conservative voices.Schneider, the organization’s vice president for Free Speech America, alleges that major news-aggregation apps are heavily biased toward liberal, left-leaning or leftist narratives. The “Big Four” apps, which Schneider identifies as Apple News, Google News, Yahoo and MSN are the primary platforms feeding liberal bias to…