AUBURN — A former Freeport teacher is expected to enter pleas later this month to charges he had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student. Derek Michael Boyce, 37, was charged last year with 26 counts related to his alleged sexual assault of a student at Pine Tree Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school in Freeport. […]
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Earthquake recorded in Franklin County
PHILLIPS — Maine’s first big snowstorm of the year is still on the way, but the first earthquake of 2019 is in the books. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that an area in northern Franklin County experienced a magnitude 2.3 quake Wednesday afternoon. That’s tiny by earthquake standards — experts say quakes of that magnitude are […]
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Maine DEA introduces phone app to leave anonymous drug tips
The Maine Drug Enforcement agency on Thursday introduced a phone app it says will make it easier for people to report suspected drug activity. The app, created by developer tip411, will also allow MDEA agents to interact with those posting tips. “The new Maine DEA app enables the public to share an anonymous tip with […]
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Author Paul Doiron makes his Maine stories ‘authentic’
LEWISTON — Author Paul Doiron likes to think of his crime novels as entertainment, first and foremost. They are fiction, after all. But at a deeper level, he told a Lewiston audience Thursday, his books attempt to lay out an “authentic” Maine, with uniquely Maine settings and problems. The opioid crisis, economic inequality and the […]
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Norway board hears presentation on proposed highway garage
NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen was given specifics Thursday night on a new town highway garage under consideration. The proposed garage would cost about $3.2 million, or $169.31 per square foot, according to Town Manager Dennis Lajoie and Rob Prue of Pine Tree Engineering in Bath. During the presentation, Lajoie said when he was […]
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Donald Trump postpones Pelosi’s overseas travel, citing shutdown
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Thursday that he was postponing an unannounced trip of hers to Afghanistan, Egypt and Belgium – which he called a “seven-day excursion” – because of the government shutdown. “In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure that you […]
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FBI: Man wanted to attack White House with antitank rocket
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who traded his car for an antitank rocket and explosives in a plot to storm the White House is under arrest, authorities said. Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, of Cumming, was arrested in an FBI sting operation Wednesday and is charged with attempting to damage or destroy a building owned […]
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Fractured polar vortex means more winter mayhem for eastern U.S.
The swirling winds tens of thousands of feet high in the sky above the Arctic — the dreaded polar vortex — broke apart into three parts to ring in 2019. Now the eastern half of the United States is about to feel the consequences. Weather models project the onset of a severe and punishing winter […]
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Could the State of the Union be a shutdown casualty?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shutdown pressure on President Donald Trump mounted Wednesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on him to delay his State of the Union address and his own economists acknowledged the prolonged standoff was having a greater economic drag than previously thought. In a letter to Trump, Pelosi cited security concerns, noting that […]