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Graham Platner no longer scheduled to speak at Labor Day rally
The Maine oyster farmer, who won the Democratic Senate nomination earlier this year, ended his campaign in July amid sexual assault allegations.
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Republican nominee for Maine governor says he wants ICE agents at polling places in the state
Bobby Charles told supporters he would ask White House border czar Tom Homan to send immigration agents to polling places in Maine.
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Congresswoman says target of ICE operation in fatal Maine shooting wasn't up for removal
An ICE agent shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero last month in Biddeford, Maine, and Rep. Chellie Pingree said the agency’s intended target was his roommate.
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Maine's transgender sports initiative halted by invalid signatures
A Maine initiative intended to limit transgender students’ ability to participate in sports has been removed from the ballot because of invalid signatures, the secretary of state ruled Tuesday.
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Rare 2-colored lobster caught by fishermen off Cape Cod donated to aquarium
The Wellfleet Shellfish Company in Eastham, Massachusetts, donated the lobster to the Woods Hole Science Aquarium.
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New details emerge as NTSB arrives to investigate deadly Maine plane crash
The National Transportation Safety Board arrived Tuesday to begin investigating at a Maine airport where a business jet crashed during takeoff, killing all six people on board. The Paris-bound Bombardier Challenger 600 flipped over and burned on takeoff at Bangor International Airport around 7:45 p.m. Sunday night as the nation’s massive winter storm was beginning to reach the area. It…
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Mills calls Maine ICE arrests ‘concerning', says agents should show warrants
The Trump administration is now targeting its mass deportation campaign on Maine, a state with relatively few residents in the United States illegally but notable African refugee communities in its largest cities.
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Lobster boats must keep using tracking devices for government observation, court rules
The U.S. government can continue requiring America’s lobster fishing boats to use electronic tracking devices to collect data, a federal appeals court has ruled, denying claims by some in the industry that the monitoring amounts to unreasonable search and seizure.
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Woman who served prison time for manslaughter elected to City Council in Maine
A woman who was sworn in Monday as a city council member in Bangor, Maine, served time in prison for manslaughter.
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Maine voters approve red flag gun law after state's deadliest mass shooting
Maine residents voted to make it easier for family members to petition a court to restrict a potentially dangerous person’s access to guns while rejecting a sweeping proposal centered on voter ID.
