The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office announced on Thursday that they have charged multiple juveniles between ages 9 to 16 from…
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CVS Health’s Omnicare unit must pay $948.8 million in penalties and damages following a federal ruling on Monday in a…
A Francestown, New Hampshire man sparked a police standoff on Wednesday after he allegedly shouted at a mail-man, tried to…
The “local” part of “Maine Trust for Local News” has just gotten a lot less so with word that Skowhegan…
A week after the national release of the documentary, High Crimes: The Chinese Mafia’s Takeover of Rural America in partnership…
A New Hampshire federal judge announced Thursday that he will certify a class action lawsuit against the Trump Administration over…
Every so often on a slow day a certain kind of fellow gets bored and says “hey let’s blow up…
The Auburn Police Department’s Proactive Community Enforcement (PACE) Unit executed a search warrant at the Center Street Value Inn, resulting…
Residents of Owls Head, a small town in mid-coast Maine, have seen their property tax bills skyrocket this year. Because…
The search for an Augusta man who jumped after his dog into the Kennebec River near Bath on Sunday appears…
The Lewiston Police Department announced on Wednesday that they arrested three individuals and seized multiple firearms in recent days as…
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday to overturn the 2023 conviction of Douglass Mackey, known online as Ricky Vaughn, for…
A meeting of the seemingly very local Westbrook City Council Facilities and Streets Committee took a surprising turn on Monday…
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One week after the brutal slaying of a Tenants Harbor woman on a pond in Union, what is taking hold…
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office last week executed a search warrant at a house in Fairfield, resulting in three arrests…
The United States Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday allowing the Trump Administration’s “workforce optimization” initiatives to resume for the…
A man has been arrested on aggravated assault charges after allegedly stabbing a 21-year-old in the neck outside of a…
Paul LePage, former Maine Governor and current frontrunner for the hotly contested 2nd Congressional District (CD2) House seat occupied by…
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the new National Farm Security Action Plan on Tuesday, focusing on…
The sponsors of the upcoming bivalve fest in Yarmouth, Maine are under pressure to come up with some vegetarian options.…
Negotiations between Northern Light and Anthem have reportedly stalled as the expiration date of their current contract quickly approaches at…
A New York man was arrested last week for allegedly making posts on the social media platform X threatening to…
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course…
Seven Chinese nationals are facing federal charges for allegedly running a multi-million-dollar illegal pot empire hidden in quiet neighborhoods across…
A Lewiston man was arrested last week on multiple counts of possession of sexually explicit material of a child under…
A group of 11 anti-ICE activists are facing federal charges for an alleged July 4 plot to ambush and assassinate…
The Maine Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday morning in the lawsuit challenging Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ wording of…
President Donald Trump struck a blow against the “net-zero” climate agenda on Monday with an executive order targeting “unreliable, foreign…
A Maryland man wanted for murder and multiple assaults was nabbed by federal agents in Auburn after nearly a year…
Auburn Republican Rep. Laurel Libby’s lawsuit against Maine Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) has become moot after her…
The Maine Marine Patrol is searching the Kennebec River for the missing Robert Stolt, 22, of Augusta, who went missing…
Nearly 50 Maine Republican lawmakers on Monday sent a letter to the presidents of the Maine Community College System (MCCS)…
Republican candidate for Governor of Maine Robert “Bobby” Charles issued an early statement on Monday about his fundraising results for…
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A Hampton, New Hampshire man led NH State Police on a multi-town chase, straying into Maine, involving multiple Maine law-enforcement…
JoAnna St. Germain, the Waterville teacher who made international headlines in May for her Facebook posts calling for President Donald…
Louis Sigel, a Kennebec County Democrat has submitted paperwork with the Federal Elections Committee (FEC) to challenge incumbent Congressman Jared…
New Hampshire authorities are investigating a potential murder-suicide that took place on Sunday at a Mexican restaurant in Berlin, just…
The state’s top tourism association official says Maine is on par for a great season – tariffs or no tariffs.…
York County Sheriff’s deputies responded on Saturday to 7 Jackson’s Corner Store at 1486 Alfred Road in Lyman to reports…
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a fireworks malfunction that injured three crew members during a display at…
The Sanford Police Department on Monday announced five major arrests from last week, including three people arrested at a home…
After Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) professor Carol Lewandowski received significant backlash for providing unprofessional and discriminatory feedback to a…
Some House Democrats told Axios that their constituents have encouraged them to prepare for violence and “be willing to get…
A vacationing cop repeatedly slugged her firefighter boyfriend in an otherwise-sleepy western Maine town amid a pre-July 4th violent domestic…
Since Thursday, when authorities declared the death of a Tenants Harbor woman on or near a pond in Union to…
America has a real shot at ending its dangerous reliance on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for rare earth…
The Portland Press Herald appears to have been erroneously reporting that two of its former staffers would be the first…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a bill into law creating the Maine Department of Energy Resources, a cabinet-level department…
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a national budget bill that includes many of the key policies of President…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills lost her cool on a Fox News reporter who asked her about re-surfaced allegations that she…
ABC News, Facebook, and Paramount’s CBS have all paid millions to Trump over attempts to silence, censor, or maliciously impair…
Pretty unusual for a small Maine town to be educating the state’s governor – except if it’s the indigenous-deaf Janet…
A violent “transgender” male prisoner was quietly transferred back to a men’s prison in June, years after he was accused…
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The Lewiston Police Department announced on Thursday that they have launched a new initiative they are calling a crime suppression…
The Trump Administration’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is working to get LGBTQ branding materials off of American streets with the…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) arrested two men on Tuesday following a raid on a Hancock residence as part…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA), in collaboration with the Winslow Police Department and Maine State Police, arrested two men…
The U.S. Department of Education is reviewing multiple federal grants that would have been released on Tuesday, delaying the release…
The Department of Defense (DoD) is asking for a large-scale funding increase for domestic and international defense systems, according to…
The U.S. halted shipments of precision weapons and missile defense systems to Ukraine as the Pentagon fears America’s own stockpile…
With the July 4th holiday on our doorsteps, the legacy media in Maine is celebrating its own brand of independence…
Maine’s increasingly litigious Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey signed on to yet another lawsuit against the federal government on Monday,…
One of Maine’s largest health care providers has announced that it will be taking steps to reduce costs as it…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued a response Friday to the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in the case concerning…
A York Democrat’s bill to expand the administrative process behind Maine’s public school transfer program died between chambers after the…
A professor at Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) attacked and discriminated against a Christian conservative student for writing an essay…
Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) sputtered his way through a Tuesday end-of-session interview with Matt Gagnon on WGAN, in…
A 68-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly fatally striking a bicyclist with his vehicle and then leaving the scene…
A Greene man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to federal charges after he was pulled over in Lewiston and found with…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) will avoid making a decision on the controversial sanctuary state bill that passed through the legislature,…
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Cling though one might to the old saying ‘you can’t judge a book by its cover,’ it’s difficult to look…
America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against three federal agencies alleging they failed to honor information requests on discriminatory…
Maine lawmakers unanimously rejected a Democrat-led effort to ban dynamic pricing in restaurants and grocery stores throughout the state. Although…
A newly released memo from Assistant Attorney General Brent Shumate directed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Division last month…
A 23-year-old Lewiston man has been arrested in Minnesota and transported back to Maine where he has been charged with…
The United States Senate narrowly passed on Tuesday the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a national budget bill that includes…
A Bath man was arrested on Saturday after allegedly firing a rifle multiple times in a residential area in Belgrade.…
The Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” reconciliation spending package on Tuesday with a tie breaking vote…
A Massachusetts man was sentenced in federal court in Maine on Tuesday for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft after…
Leo Anzivino, Jr., 34, of Teaticket, Massachusetts, is facing charges of healthcare fraud and money laundering for his alleged role…
An Ellsworth man on Monday was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for a conspiracy to traffic drugs from…
The Westbrook Police Department on Tuesday issued a statement responding to allegations that they had used an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated…
Like the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, ths majority of blue state Mainers told pollsters they do not want the…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is revoking the temporary protected status from Haiti, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced…
Political leaders in Maine’s largest municipal welfare magnet have a new idea for pretending that public drug use and urination…
South Portland police say three masked suspects allegedly assaulted and threatened an ATM technician during a robbery at Bank of…
Socialist Portland City Councilor Wes Pelletier on Sunday gave a speech at an event in Monument Square in which he…
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https://twitter.com/BigSteve207/status/1939793686344196362 The Chinese Mafia is building a black-market marijuana empire across rural America—buying homes, churches, and even schools. They’re lacing…
Thirty-seven year-old allegations of cocaine abuse have returned to haunt Maine Gov. Janet Mills thanks to a resurfaced U.S. Department…
A retired Special Forces surgeon who earned his medical degree in Maine is running for Texas governor – and vowing…
The Maine Legislature has yet to make a final decision on the proposal requiring the Maine Department of Health and…
A 39-year-old unhoused man has been charged with arson following a fire at an unoccupied residential property in Princeton, according…
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino vowed to crack down on government corruption and root out Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence…
The Regional School Unit (RSU) 73 School Board, serving Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls, voted on Thursday night to alter…