State Rep. Deqa Dhalac, the former assistant executive director of Gateway Community Services, has become ensnared in a congressional investigation into Medicaid fraud spanning Minnesota and Maine. Abdullahi Ali campaigning for local office in Jubbland with his campaign staffers. House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is demanding briefings from the Justice Department and Treasury over Minnesota’s ballooning social-services fraud scandal. Comer’s sweeping requests expand and escalate an already explosive investigation targeting industrial-scale Medicaid fraud carried…

The nation’s first-ever transgender-identifying state lawmaker, a former New Hampshire Democratic representative for Nashua, pleaded guilty this week to the charge of sexual exploitation of children after convincing his partner to send him sexually explicit images of children at a daycare. [RELATED: Horrific Text Messages Show How Trans NH State Rep Allegedly Used Daycare Connections to Collect Explicit Photos of Children…] The former representative, a male who uses the name Stacie Laughton, was first elected…

A former student at Bonny Eagle High School in Standish is facing two counts of gross sexual assault for allegedly raping a 15-year-old victim in the school bathroom. Ali Kareem Al Shammari, 19, of Buxton, was arrested in late February of this year on two counts of gross sexual assault and was booked at the Cumberland County Jail. Arrest records from Buxton Police indicate that Al Shammari was taken into custody on a warrant shortly…

BOSTON – Gov. Maura Healey announced on Friday yet another regional defiance to President Trump’s enforcement on immigration law, inviting Massachusetts residents to surveil federal law enforcement. In an announcement video on X, Gov. Healey outlined her new initiative in combatting immigration enforcement by directing residents to a new state website form encouraging them to document events, collect information, and additional provision of legal resources. The tool is hosted at the Massachusetts state website and…

Maine’s chief cannabis regulator said Wednesday that the Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) is aware that it’s been issuing licenses to individuals associated with transnational organized crime. However, the agency lacks the authority to deny licenses to those who apply for medicinal cultivation licenses even when the applicant was previously linked by law enforcement to illicit cannabis activity, said OCP Director John Hudak. At a hearing before the Maine Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee…

During an event promoting her new book, United States Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett spoke about the widely circulated comment she directed at fellow Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the opinion she authored earlier this summer prohibiting universal injunctions. Kicking off a tour for her new book “Listening to the Law,” which is taking place while the Supreme Court is not in session, Barrett spoke for over an hour at the Lincoln Center in…

Former House Democratic Leader Maureen Terry of Gorham scoffed at then-Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) for proposing a 2021 bill to increase Maine’s Homestead Exemption to $50,000 on the basis that “taxation is theft.” The bill would have increased Maine’s Homestead Exemption from $25,000 to $50,000, thereby lowering the amount of property taxes many Mainers are required to pay. As Faulkingham was introducing his bill, Rep. Terry could be seen in the Zoom recording…

LEWISTON, Maine — The Lewiston City Council on Tuesday night heard emotional testimony from survivors, family members, and community advocates still grappling with the fallout from the October 25, 2023 mass shooting, but by the end of the meeting, councilors appeared poised to move forward with a memorandum of understanding with the Maine Resiliency Center rather than confront the still-unresolved controversy over the $1.9 million in charitable donations that went to nonprofits instead of directly…

The Oxford Sheriff’s Department arrested a Brownfield man on domestic violence charges on Thursday after he allegedly shot at his female victim. [RELATED: Penobscot Deputies Arrest Men in Hermon and Garland on Domestic Violence Charges…] At approximately 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday, deputies, along with the Maine State Police and Fryeburg Rescue, responded to a Wakefield Road residence in Brownfield. The caller reported a domestic violence incident involving firearms. She told the police that a man…

Two out-of-state investment companies that are buying up trailer parks are among six nationwide under congressional scrutiny. The Joint Economic Committee launched a probe Monday into the firms, which hold large stakes in mobile-home parks. The panel fired off letters to a half-dozen companies seeking information about evictions, rent increases and profits at firms acquiring the properties. Two of the firms that have holdings in Maine, the BoaVida Group and Philips International, have allegedly raised…

Republicans on the Maine Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee reversed course on a bill last Tuesday that would have initially increased the number of charter schools in the state, but instead proposed an amendment to lower the cap to prevent the establishment of a school aimed primarily at “new Americans.” [RELATED: Illegal Alien Previously Hired by York County Jail Arrested by ICE After Jail Set Goal of Hiring ‘New Americans’…] The original bill, LD…

Nine individuals were arrested Thursday following a joint operation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and the Berwick Police Department targeting a single-family home in Berwick, which had been under investigation for suspected drug trafficking for the past two months. [RELATED: Undercover Operation Leads to Arrest of Portland Man on Drug Trafficking Charges, Seizure of $10,000 Worth of Fentanyl…] According to the MDEA, the investigation into the residence located at 19 Katabel Lane in…

LEWISTON, Maine – The Farmers’ Almanac, a long 208-year-old publication held by the Geiger family in Lewiston, has been acquired by Unofficial Networks, a New York-based digital media company, in a deal announced in January 2026 that will keep the historic title alive after prior owners warned the 2026 edition would be the last. The acquisition comes just months after the publication’s previous owners said mounting financial stress would force an end to the long-running…

The principal of a public high school in South Paris forwarded a recruitment email from the Maine Democratic Party to his students seeking to enroll them as volunteers for political canvassing and phone banking on behalf of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. Paul Bickford, Principal at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School (OHCHS), forwarded a Sept. 28 email from a Maine Democratic Party field organizer to his freshmen students, with the subject line “[Attention Freshmen] FWD:…

A new study, conducted by Just Facts, claims that roughly 10-27 percent of adult non-citizens in the U.S. are illegally registered to vote. According to the study, this translates to roughly 2-5 million adults illegally registered to vote as of 2022, based on 2022 census numbers, which claim that 19 million non-citizen adults live in the country. [RELATED: Newly Revealed Data Shows the Number of Illegal Immigrants Who “Gotaway” From Border Patrol…] “American elections are…