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A foot chase through Portland Monday led to the arrest of an 18-year-old Yarmouth man and the seizure of drugs…
A former New Hampshire man has been arrested in relation to a series of robberies at southern Maine churches, authorities…
Maine’s senate approved a bill on Wednesday, the final day of the legislative session, which will require a 72-hour waiting…
A proposed “red-flag” bill will not be signed into law this session despite support from Cumberland County’s District Attorney (DA)…
Maine legislative Democrats forced through a controversial measure on the final day of the legislative session by hiding it inside…
The Maine House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a proposal to implement a required 72-hour waiting period between the sale…
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decided Monday that it would not hear an appeal from Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist…
A Skowhegan courtroom devolved into an all-out brawl during the sentencing of Jason Servil for the 2022 murder of Alice…
Smith and Wesson has threatened to shutter its 44,000-square-foot Houlton facility if a Democratic gun control bill under consideration in…
Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) on Thursday released a statement praising the Biden administration’s move to expand background checks on…
A South Portland man has been found guilty of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor…
In an uncommon display of evenhandedness in their coverage, several corporate media outlets have reported on the disinformation tactics used…
Despite hundreds of thousands of Mainers still being without power Friday following a nor’easter, Democratic lawmakers plowed ahead with a…
Rep. Lynn Williams (D-Bar Harbor) has quietly resigned from her position in the House of Representatives, shrinking the Democrat’s majority…
A new study out of the Netherlands, which surveyed children over a 15-year period, showed that the vast majority of…
Maine’s House passed a controversial bill targeting “unauthorized paramilitary training” which has raised concerns with Second Amendment rights advocates, who…
Maine’s Judiciary Committee is pushing forward with its plan to hold a public hearing on a controversial gun-control bill as…
Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage announced on Tuesday that the fundraiser he hosted along with his wife Ann raised nearly…
A Maine man pleaded guilty in a Massachusetts federal court Monday to a conspiracy to straw purchase firearms in Maine…
The Independent Commission tasked by Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) with investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding the Oct. 25,…
Hundreds of illegal Marijuana grow sites operated by Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations have cropped up throughout Maine. Since the Maine…
The Sanctuary Inn, located in downtown Ellsworth, bills itself as a place for recovering drug addicts, people experiencing homelessness, and…
An Auburn couple is facing multiple drug trafficking charges after police found $24,000 worth of illegal drugs at a woman’s…
A drug trafficking investigation involving the South Portland Police Department and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) led to the…
The recent destruction of a massive solar farm in Texas highlights the fragility of “renewable” energy infrastructure, and has raised…
If surging crime, unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, and a deadly fentanyl epidemic wasn’t enough, now we can add a…
A Bangor man who was found with drug paraphernalia and a firearm during a traffic stop pleaded guilty Friday in…
Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) has been a staunch supporter of sending U.S. aid to Ukraine aid in their effort…
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill that would ban TikTok from all devices in…
Big Picture: A major bill that would overhaul Maine’s marijuana regulations is moving through the State House, with $100s of…
John Barnett, longtime employee of aircraft manufacturer Boeing who had turned whistleblower, was found dead from a gunshot wound in…
A massive $2 billion energy transmission line through New England has been scrapped after the company undertaking the project deemed…
Maine’s far left lawmakers are advocating for a series of gun control bills in response to the Oct. 25 mass…
Back before it much mattered — ie. when he was just a senator from Delaware, just the chairman of the…
Portland Police announced Sunday that they have arrested a suspect in relation to a homicide that occurred over the weekend…
Members of the Portland City Council expressed their frustration during a Tuesday committee meeting toward Maine lawmakers who do not…
The first presidential polling published out of the Pine Tree State delivered some surprising news, showing former Republican President Donald…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has determined that the use of deadly force by a South Portland Police Officer that…
Today is “Officers’ Day,” otherwise known as “Men’s Day” among those who served in the Soviet military. My former business…
A group of 47 Maine House Democrats penned an emotional letter in an attempt to leverage the tragic Oct. 25…
On March 5, voters in the Town of Cumberland are set to weigh in on a controversial proposal to construct…
As divisive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces a hearing in the United Kingdom court, which could determine whether he will…
Lewiston Police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Sunday morning at a Pine St. apartment building. Police say they…
The Kremlin announced Monday that Russian forces had taken full control of the Ukrainian city Avdiivka, in a significant defeat…
Launched in 2022, online discount shopping website Temu — owned by the China-based company PDD Holdings — has come under…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced a $71 million new spending proposal on Wednesday that would bring Maine’s total spending…
Maine’s Second Congressional District is big — 27,326 square miles, encompassing what passes in Maine for cities, Lewiston-Auburn and Bangor,…
The individual who attempted a mass shooting at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch in Houston on Sunday has been identified as…
President Joe Biden (D) has received criticism after his campaign officially joined TikTok — the Chinese-controlled social media app widely…
A Saturday night shooting near the University of Maine at Augusta’s Bangor campus stemmed from a dispute between residents of…
Maine’s liberal Members of Congress are either keeping quiet, pointing at former President Donald Trump, or defending President Joe Biden…
Maine’s child welfare system has frequently come under fire in recent months for its failure to protect the state’s most…
Last week, six pro-life activists were convicted following a peaceful protest outside a Tennessee abortion clinic, and now face up…
Maine lawmakers are considering a bill to prohibit “unauthorized paramilitary training,” leading to concerns about 2nd Amendment rights, and difficulties…
A Portland homeless man is facing multiple charges for allegedly assaulting people with a machete, possessing scheduled drugs and trafficking…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills delivered her 2024 State of the State address Tuesday evening, offering few policy proposals that resonated…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) is set to deliver her annual State of the State address Tuesday evening. The speech, her…
Democratic State Rep. Benjamin Collings of Portland is seeking to amend Article I of the Constitution of Maine to include…
While in Canada for a UFC match, mixed martial artist Sean Strickland was asked by a Canadian reporter about his…
An adjunct professor at the University of Maine School of Law flubbed an elementary question about constitutional law and the…
The Maine Judiciary Committee faced intense scrutiny today as it postponed a Work Session on a controversial bill that would…
Portland Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred late Tuesday afternoon at a local fried chicken restaurant. Police say…
On Tuesday the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee will hold a work session on a bill sponsored by State Rep. Rebecca…
On January 9, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey signed a letter authored by New York Attorney General Letitia James which…
At Tuesday’s meeting of Maine’s legislative council, Rep. Katrina Smith (R-Palermo) proposed a bill that would stop hostile foreign governments,…
The Maine House of Representatives today voted 60-80 against initiating an impeachment inquiry into Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for…
House Republicans will consider a resolution and accompanying report to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas,…
Portland Police announced Friday that they responded to a shooting Thursday night at Union Station Plaza which injured one victim.…
Protestors gathered today outside the General Dynamics production facility in Saco Maine, complaining that the company is supplying Israel’s “genocide”…
All but one of Maine’s U.S Congressional Delegation issued statements opposing Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision Thursday to…
The Biden Administration has once again refused to provide independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with protection from the…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine), who in 2018 received an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association, is now open to…
Portland Police responded to an “emergency” in the area of Allen Ave. and Ray St., according to a post to…
Listening to Obama advisor David Axelrod compare the Hunter Biden probe to Benghazi, it suddenly becomes clear that among people for whom…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has signed onto an amicus brief in favor of upholding California’s long-controversial ban on large-capacity…
A house in Arlington Virginia exploded Monday night while police were attempting to gain entry while executing a search warrant.…
Following autopsies from the Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the deaths of two adults found in Searsmont Monday…
Lawyers for Hunter Biden have told the Republican-led House Oversight Committee that the president’s son is willing to testify before…
A Florida man was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Bangor for trafficking methamphetamine from Florida into Maine with…
A high-ranking leader of the transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, more commonly known as MS-13, has been arrested on…
Portland city officials provided updates regarding the homeless encampment below the Casco Bay Bridge during a Tuesday evening Health and…
UPDATE: Kevin Kelley, spokesman for the Independent Commission, has provided a statement to the Maine Wire clarifying that the Commission…
A man who allegedly threatened to retrieve an AR-15 and shoot patrons at the South Portland Buffalo Wild Wings on…
A leaked copy of three pages from the alleged manifesto of transgender Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale obtained by Louder…
An Auburn law firm took out a full-page ad in the Lewiston Sun Journal last week advertising a roundtable discussion…
A Bangor woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for numerous drug trafficking offenses, a sentence the Maine…
As details surrounding the mental health history of the Lewiston mass shooter Robert R. Card, Jr., continue to come to…
Last Wednesday, eighteen people between the ages of 14 and 76 were killed in a mass shooting in Lewiston. Thirteen…
Living downriver and across Merrymeeting Bay from accused mass murderer Robert Card II, the last couple days have been as…
Wednesday night in Lewiston, eighteen people between the ages of 14 and 76 were killed in the worst mass shooting…
The Army Reserve unit that mass murderer Robert R. Card Jr. served in since 2002 also contains several members of…
Last week’s mass murder in Lewiston claimed the lives of eighteen Mainers and injured thirteen more, three of whom are…
In a letter to his constituents published Sunday to his “Dear Mainer” Substack, Democratic Congressman from Maine’s 2nd District Jared…
The Army Reservist who brutally murdered 18 Mainers in Lewiston on Wednesday evening has been found dead, multiple Maine officials…
The Army Reservist who brutally murdered 18 Mainers in Lewiston on Wednesday evening has been found dead, multiple Maine officials…
Although law enforcement officials have yet to confirm any specific details, preliminary information about the note found in the residence…
The invisible shield that has always protected the people of Maine from the insanity of modern American life has been…
A city councilor from Maine’s largest city has blamed the single largest shooting of white people in Maine’s modern history…
The Maine Wire reached out to Maine’s top Republican lawmakers Thursday morning to get their thoughts on Wednesday evening’s shooting…