The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced on Wednesday a number of Subway sandwich shop locations throughout the state will be closing following the revocation of their business registrations. Now, the MDOL is attempting to get in contact with any workers that have been laid off as a result of the closures. “The department is here to assist these workers through this period of uncertainty,” Maine Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman said in a statement. “We…

Windham and Raymond hosted a “Pride Month” event on Sunday aimed at exposing children to LGBT-themed content, and though the attendance of several drag queens was in doubt due to unsubstantiated claims of mortal peril, performer “Letta Dicken” was on site to perform. The towns’ first ever pride event was marketed as being for all ages, and was originally scheduled to include storytime for children–although the promotional material did not specify a book–a craft fair,…

SACO, Maine — The Saco Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing 13-year-old boy who was last seen earlier this week. Police said Levi Eastman was last seen around noontime on March 25 while walking on the Eastern Trail in Saco. Authorities have issued a request for information as efforts continue to locate the teenager. According to police, Levi was last seen wearing blue jeans, black sneakers, and a gray…

Angolan illegal aliens struck and killed two pedestrians in Maine last week. In both instances, they were legally sanctioned to drive. In the first case, Lionel Francisco, 31, was driving with a Maine-issued learner’s permit and had an illegal immigrant passenger who held a Maine license when he struck and killed a Massachusetts woman in Lewiston. The other instance involved Mukendi Mbiya, 49, who killed a pedestrian crossing the street in New Gloucester. The Cumberland…

PORTLAND, Maine – The Portland Police Department is encouraging prospective officers to sign up for one-on-one virtual meetings with a department recruiter as it looks ahead to its August 2026 Police Academy hiring cycle. According to a department recruitment notice, Portland PD is offering 30-minute virtual appointments on April 8 with Recruitment Sergeant Castonguay for people interested in learning more about a career with the department. The meetings are intended to give applicants a chance…

A Maine Democratic lawmaker is using the state’s “concept draft” policy and the extremely vague bill title “An Act Regarding the Laws of the State of Maine” to conceal a proposal to use taxpayer funds to install security systems at legislators’ homes. [RELATED: Rep. Laurel Libby Seeks to Eliminate the Use of Place-holding “Concept Drafts” in Augusta…] The bill would appropriate $450,000 from the state’s general fund to create the “Legislator Residential Security Fund,” which…

Conservative activist and parental rights advocate Nicholas Blanchard is planning to sue the Augusta Police Department after he was arrested at gunpoint last month during a protest, while officers refused to charge him with any crime. [RELATED: Augusta School Board Shuts Down Dad Critical of Title IX Violations, Won’t Allow “Negative Comments” During Public Hearing…] Blanchard, who uses the name CornPop from Maine online, was at the Memorial Bridge in Augusta to counterprotest during a…

“Captain Steeeve,” a Maine-trained Navy pilot and social-media sensation for his plain-spoken explanations about flying, has hung up his wings. After four decades, first in the right seat and then in the left seat, the popular commercial pilot whose full name is Steve Scheibner has been forced into retirement by federal regulations with 65 as the pilot age limit. Scheibner began flying as a young aviator at Brunswick Naval Air Station. He flew his way…

The FBI arrested two active-duty U.S. Army soldiers and one veteran on Thursday for alleged bribery and theft of government property as part of a plot to sell classified national defense information to China. “While bribery and corruption have thrived under China’s Communist Party, this behavior cannot be tolerated with our service members who are entrusted with sensitive military information, including national defense information,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “The FBI and our partners will…

Bets are on that the Democrat congresswoman from southern Maine will be voting for the Republican Senate candidate come November.Yup, it’s Chellie Pingree’s big dream to succeed the GOP’s Susan Collins in the upper chamber after languishing for 18 years in the dreaded U.S. House.Collins told WCSH-TV earlier this week that if she wins re-election this will be her last term.But we’ve heard that one before, such as in 1996 when Collins pledged to serve…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order from the Oval Office outlining new federal actions intended to strengthen election integrity, enhance citizenship verification, and establish uniform standards for mail-in and absentee ballots. The order cites constitutional authority as well as existing federal statutes, including the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, as the legal basis for the new directives. It states that…

Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed an emergency bill into law amending the requirements that must be met by nurse practitioners before they gain full practice authority. State law previously required new nurse practitioners to spend twenty-four months, or two years, practicing under the supervision of a licensed physician or supervising nurse practitioner. Alternatively, nurse practitioners could spend this period employed by a clinic or hospital that had a licensed physician serving as a medical director.…

Fifty years ago the body of a 19-year-old woman was dumped in a culvert on Sherman Lake in Newcastle. Florence E. Lauze’s killer to this day has never been identified and without a miracle never will be. As tragic as her death is, she’s just one of 69 Maine victims on the Maine State Police list of unsolved homicides. Unfortunately the list isn’t getting any shorter. Unsolved murders go cold after they fall out of…

Two Maine mayors who made lame attempts running their leftist, troubled city for decades combined are suddenly claiming their time in office transformed it into a jewel in the state’s crown.A column by former Biddeford mayors Alan Casavant and Martin Grohman published  in the Portland Press Herald calls the impoverished mill city a “dynamic community” suddenly free of “urban decay and fractious politics.”Grohman, whose city’s crime rate is multiple-times worse than the state average, lost…

If the chips are down, Maine voters can depend on a U.S. senator who has … “great sperm.” That’s the literal message of a new campaign announcement video produced by Graham Platner, who’s in a highly competitive, fertile race for the Democratic nomination for the senate. But Platner wants Maine voters to know he’s not doing this by himself – wink, wink. Indeed, the video also features the other half of the political couple who…