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Mainers sounded off earlier this week to weigh in on the implementation and administration of the state’s new Paid Family…
President Donald Trump urged Americans outraged over the assassination of Charlie Kirk to respond to the shooting peacefully in honor…
A bitter internacine family food fight is fraying the nerves of drama-weary shoppers wondering whether their favorite supermarket is going…
Maine is set to raise its minimum wage is to $15.10 per hour statewide beginning on January 1 of next…
As the country mourns the horrific assassination of 31-year-old father, husband, and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, some of the teachers…
Somerset County Sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a Hartland man on Wednesday morning while executing a search warrant at his home…
Democrat Gov. Janet Mills is interviewing staff for a potential U.S. Senate bid, according to a new report. Politico is…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) arrested two people and seized over two kilograms of illegal drugs on Tuesday during…
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, fatally shot Wednesday at an event at Utah Valley University, came to Maine last month to…
The Maine Legislature’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee held a meeting Tuesday afternoon to discuss the state’s relationship with…
Update: The missing 15-year-old Jason Gilbert, of Garland, has been found and re-united with his family. The Penobscot Sheriff’s Department…
A Southwest Harbor man pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Bangor to three child pornography charges after he…
A Windham man died tragically on Tuesday while refueling his boat after the gas fumes ignited, and he was either…
The Windham Police Department arrested an alleged fugitive on Monday after he reportedly fled from officers who tried to initiate…
UPDATE: Charlie Kirk tragically passed away after he was shot during his Utah event. President Donald Trump issued a statement…
The small Cessna that crashed last month while trying to land at Bangor International Airport came close to slamming into…
Bangor City Council Chair Cara Pelletier, who also serves as the city’s mayor, resigned from her position on Tuesday, citing…
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Newly released footage from the murder of a Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, N.C. captures the moments when bystanders tried to…
A Winter Harbor fifth-generation lobsterman has been defeated in a humorous, international competition that centers on provoking a voracious, razor-toothed…
Twenty-six Maine high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program, the National Merit Scholarship…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has continued to refuse requests from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to…
The class-baiter who may have gotten into Maine’s finest school falsely claiming oppressed-minority status is now all but a shoo-in…
Rep. Reagan Paul (R-Winterport) urged the federal government to revoke the four remaining offshore wind leases in the Gulf of…
The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that the individuals it had detained while a deranged transgender activist attempted to…
Camden cops are hoping someone drops a dime on the pink-stained political activist who damaged $175,000 worth of spanking-new parking…
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) executed a nationwide crackdown on the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, they announced on Monday, culminating in…
A former Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) probation officer pleaded guilty to child pornography charges on Friday, with a search…
A native and resident of Lubec, Maine was the oldest to die in the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed 2,983…
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The Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) filed a motion late last month asking a federal judge to block a subpoena from…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee has spoken out against President Donald Trump’s (R)…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a crackdown on human traffickers on Thursday, expanding the successful Joint Task Force…
Bob Marley gets a good laugh at just about anything he can but apparently Budweiser suits don’t appreciate a good…
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An Augusta perp who allegedly blew a Cushing man’s head off with a shotgun wants to exclude from his trial…
Rep. Anne-Marie Mastraccio (D-Sanford) took to Facebook last month to declare Sanford Police Chief Eric Small, in her words, unfit…
A 76-year-old pilot from New York sustained minor injuries after crashing an airplane into Moosehead Lake in Greenville on Saturday,…
The invasive European green crabs taking a toll on New England lobster breeding grounds pose a double-edged threat to Maine’s…
A new $2.2 billion Bath Iron Works contract for another Arleigh Burke destroyer is giving Russian Navy commanders heart palpitations.…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) issued a statement Thursday urging the United States Congress to extend a federal tax credit…
During an event promoting her new book, United States Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett spoke about the widely circulated…
So much for Democrat Gov. Janet Mills’ warning that this summer’s tourism numbers would be a bust due to Trump.…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering blocking those identifying as transgender from buying firearms after a trans-identifying male opened…
The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department arrested two juveniles and one adult on Friday in connection with a Bowdoinham burglary that…
The City of Lewiston condemned a building used by the Church of Safe Injection (CoSI) non-profit last Wednesday after police…
An elderly Gray woman allegedly smashed her car through a Brunswick tennis gym on Thursday, sped through multiple active courts,…
The Portland City Council has voted to penalize commercial property owners if storefronts are vacant for over six months unless…
A group of conservative students at Bowdoin College in Brunswick are hosting a performance of October 7th, a theater production…
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Maine troopers are marking a century since they lost the second of the state’s police officers to die in the…
Brewer Police Chief Chris Martin appeared on the Q-Point podcast over the weekend to discuss a range of topics, focusing…
A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the Trump Administration must unfreeze billions of dollars in federal funding destined…
A suspect remains at large in Lewiston following a shooting Wednesday night that left a man hospitalized with multiple gunshot…
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents executed the largest-ever seizure of methamphetamine precursor chemicals in Texas this week. The chemicals were…
Half a century for kids. That’s the remarkable run so far for a group of otherwise-tough, leather-vested, tattooed guys -…
An apparently intoxicated Lewiston man allegedly attacked Oxford police officers and a K-9 unit with bear spray on Wednesday morning…
A Polish executive innocently dragged into a viral internet scandal says he now feels the pain of the innocent Kennebunk…
A Tewksbury, Massachusetts, comedian was arrested on Monday after he allegedly crashed his Tesla through a Manchester, New Hampshire, home…
As a new school year begins, many schools throughout Maine have banned students from using their cell phones during the…
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A group of 100 surviving victims of the October 2023 Lewiston mass shooting and families of the deceased filed suit…
Voters in Portland will be asked this November if they would like to see the city’s minimum wage increase to…
The House of Representatives killed a resolution to formally censure Democratic New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver on Wednesday afternoon over…
Two New York men have agreed to plead guilty in a federal case alleging they lied to banks to buy…
The U.S. Marshal Service arrested two fugitives in Gorham on Tuesday, including a juvenile implicated in a Westbrook shooting incident,…
A Fairfield drug raid on Saturday led to the arrest of two repeat offenders, including a woman who was arrested…
U.S. Marshals arrested a Massachusetts murderer in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Thursday after they allegedly found him fleeing with a…
A Cumberland suds guru is the latest Democrat to announce plans to take on Maine’s senior senator, though the jury’s…
The Saco Police Department arrested a duo of Burlington, Vermont, residents on Friday following a string of vehicle burglaries from…
Two Bangor air-traffic controllers are being recognized for saving a pilot – and innocent civilians on the ground – from…
UK cops cuffed and stuffed Irish comedy writer – and Maine trans critic -Graham Linehan earlier this week for posting…
If your body is resting in the anatomical morgue at Maine’s only medical school, you’re in for a honorarium, albeit…
A federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled against the Trump Administration’s request to stay an order temporarily halting implementation of…
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The Maine Department of Health and Human Services is “reviewing” a letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
A Massachusetts man has been arrested on a murder charge in the violent death of a popular Portland chef who…
The Bangor Police Department arrested a Mississippi man in the early morning hours of Labor Day after he allegedly drove…
After the publication of this article, the Maine Housing Authority responded to a request for comment from The Maine Wire.…
Houlton Border Patrol agents arrested an armed and armored man who allegedly illegally entered Canada, nearly struck a Canadian official,…
Two New York women died Saturday after a pontoon boat in Eustis flipped over, dumping seven passengers into the water,…
Labor Day weekend 1975, four-year-old Kurt Newton was riding his red tricycle at a northern Maine campground. The blue-eyed, blond-haired…
An enraged motorist brutally attacked a longtime tractor-trailer operator who was on his way home from work on August 27,…
President Donald Trump pledged to award former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom after he…
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Bill Diamond, a centrist Democrat Maine statesman and statehouse fixture who fought to protect vulnerable children, has died. The former…
The throng of Suburus headed south on 295 towards Portland yesterday competed with the ordinary exodus of Massholes from Maine…
A Texas woman pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Portland on Thursday to charges related to theft from…
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (ACF) issued an urgent warning on Thursday about the invasive Japanese Stiltgrass…
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The State of Maine is suing preacher John Andrade Jr., 42, of Brunswick, accusing him of violating the Maine Civil…
The Androscoggin County District Attorney’s Office alerted Lewiston police on Aug. 26 to suspicious phone activity by a Lewiston juvenile…
A suspect in the killing of a Maine chef allegedly asked neighbors to help him move a mannequin just before…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents took a semi-pro Maine soccer player from Angola into custody last Wednesday as he…
A tuberculosis outbreak has gripped a large emergency shelter in Portland, Maine, prompting urgent health measures and mounting concern among…
A Maine man has died while swimming after a boat that was drifting away on a Belgrade pond, the second…
Rep. Jared Golden’s (D-Maine) putative primary challenger, State Auditor Matt Dunlap, poses the incumbent congressman a serious threat, according to…
The New Hampshire woman who killed her husband and two children before taking her own life embezzled over $600,000 from…