[UPDATES: A pro-civility Republican also emerges to challenge Les Gibson | ‘Horrified’ Democrat decides to take on Gibson for House seat | Leslie Gibson under fire for his comments on Parkland teens | Republican state senator, Democrats call for Gibson to withdraw from state House race] Two of the students who survived a shooting at a Florida high school last month have […]
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Ohio schools include teachers and guns in security plans
RIVERSIDE, Ohio — The safes were installed last summer. Thirty-two in all. Spread out among the four elementary schools, the two middle schools, the high school and the administration building of the Mad River Local Schools district here on the outskirts of Dayton. On Aug. 14, the first day of school for the district’s 3,900 […]
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White House vows to help arm teachers but not raise the age for buying guns
WASHINGTON — The White House on Sunday vowed to help provide “rigorous firearms training” to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal background checks system, but backed off President Donald Trump’s earlier call to raise the minimum age to purchase some guns to 21 years old from 18 years old. Responding […]
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Justice Department proposes banning rapid-fire bump stocks
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Saturday it has taken the first step in the regulatory process to ban bump stocks, likely setting the stage for long legal battles with gun manufacturers while the trigger devices remain on the market. The move was expected after President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to work […]
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How Maine bungled rollout of new jobless claims system
State officials bungled the recent rollout of a new unemployment filing system, rushing out the beleaguered software with little training or care for the down-on-their-luck people seeking benefits even as the department’s leader fostered a toxic atmosphere of neglect and ordered complaints to be destroyed. That’s according to an internal memo marked “confidential,” obtained by […]
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Maintain identity while supporting others
Isaiah Berlin once inferred “it is the notion of Freedom in its positive sense that is at the heart of the demands for national or social self-direction which animate the most powerful and morally just movements of our time.” This reflects the innate compulsion of Americans to unite as a group in order to fortify […]
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Dunlap to Lewiston mayor: Letter to voters causes 'unfounded fear'
LEWISTON — In a formal response to Lewiston officials Friday, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap described Mayor Shane Bouchard’s recent letter to new voters as “a disservice to the public discourse.” The letter to Bouchard came two days after criticism rained down on the mayor from college students and the City Council president, who charged […]
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Mark Eves’ campaign fires new staffer over sexual harassment allegations
A newly hired campaign staffer for Mark Eves, a Democratic candidate for governor, was fired Thursday morning after Eves was alerted to sexual harassment allegations against the man. Brandon Maheu, a longtime Democratic operative in Maine, had been hired on Monday to help manage Eves’ campaign but had not started work yet, spokeswoman Jodi Quintero […]
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Legislature’s investigative arm to probe 2 child deaths and role of Maine DHHS
AUGUSTA – The investigative arm of the Legislature will launch a probe into the recent deaths of two Maine children who were slain in their homes after months of abuse, and how the Department of Health and Human Services and other public agencies failed to protect them. “The system has clearly failed her, we all […]
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Donald Trump plans to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un for nuke talks
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump plan to meet in May for nuclear disarmament talks, a whiplash development that would put two leaders who’ve repeatedly insulted, threatened and dismissed each other in the same room, possibly in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. It would have […]