Police arrested Neil Lanteigne, 43, and charged him with two counts of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
Carl Natale
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Maine House OKs switch to Indigenous Peoples Day
AUGUSTA — A proposal to trade the Columbus Day holiday for a tribute to Native Americans has received initial approval in the Maine House. The House voted 88-51 Wednesday in support of the bill, which faces further votes. Democratic Rep. Benjamin Collings of Portland sponsored the bill renaming the state holiday celebrated on the second […]
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St. Albans man killed by his own pickup truck on Massachusetts highway
CANTON, Mass. (AP) – Massachusetts State Police say a Maine man struck and killed by his own pickup truck on a highway near Boston may have suffered some kind of medical emergency. Police identified the victim of Sunday afternoon’s accident on Interstate 95 in Canton as 72-year-old Michael Kulas of St. Albans, Maine. The preliminary […]
Posted inNation / World
Virginia hunters can now spend their Sundays hunting raccoons
“I can go get beer on Sunday and get drunk and kill you with my car. I can go to the racetrack and lose my house. Why can’t I go out in the woods with my dog and get a raccoon?”
Posted inNational Sports
The perfect bracket to win your March Madness pool
There are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 different ways you can fill out a bracket. Or, you can just copy this one.
Posted inNation / World
Gunman kills 3 on Dutch tram; mayor says terror likely
Dutch police are hunting down a suspect after a shooting on a tram in the central city of Utrecht that left one person dead and multiple people injured
Posted inOp-Eds, Perspective
Donald Trump using the Clinton playbook to defend against Mueller
Anticipating the imminent release of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible presidential wrongdoing, Donald Trump and his surrogates are stepping up their relentless campaign to discredit Mueller’s investigation. Their tactics – denial, obfuscation and character assassination — are not original, but come straight out of the playbook […]
Posted inPerspective
Loss of local news hinders ability to watchdog government
The loss of a reliable local news source has many consequences for the community. One of them is the inability to watchdog the actions of government agencies and elected officials.
Posted inPerspective
Police often use broad exemption to keep videos from public
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The video is brief but disturbing: An officer is seen hitting an unarmed suspect with his pistol as the man falls into the grass. An autopsy would later show that he died from a gunshot to the back of the head. After the death last July of 26-year-old Daniel Fuller […]
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The CDC is studying electric scooter injuries
The investigation is the first from the CDC into scootermania injuries.