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The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department arrested three alleged drug traffickers on Thursday while they were reportedly smuggling drugs with a street value of $37,900. [RELATED: 36-Year-Old Homeless Man with Pink Hair Arrested in Canaan While…
Maine’s Catholic Bishop Calls For Statewide Unity During Lent; Sexual-Abuse Victims Say He’s Out Of Touch
The state’s top Catholic is calling for a “commitment to prayer” amid a continually unfolding sexual-abuse controversy.“If we as a diocese truly repent, truly believe, truly turn to the Father, then something happens,” Bishop James…
A private plane crashed onto the frozen Thompson Lake in Otisfield on Friday, prompting an investigation from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). [RELATED: Doomed Maine Plane’s Wings May Have Been Weighted Down By Ice In…
Showhorse Maine Democrat Gubernatorial Hopeful Nirav Shah Claims We Need To Be Protected From Trump?
A member of the broadening field of Democrats who think they can be the state’s next governor actually thinks Donald Trump is our problem? Nirav Shah issued a campaign primer on what an alleged problem…
Chellie Left Maine To Inspect ICE Detention Center In Massachusetts – So Now She Represents Two States
When U.S. Democrat Rep. Chellie Pingree needed to finger ICE, she apparently couldn’t do it in Maine.Funny how a congresswoman supposedly representing a Maine district has to leave the state to do her job.Maybe she…
A Maine man reportedly smashed his pickup truck through a Dunkin’ Donuts and Burger King on Thursday before fleeing the scene while allegedly high and was ultimately arrested following a second crash. [RELATED: Hermon Woman…
The United States Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 against President Donald Trump (R) in a long-awaited decision concerning the tariffs he imposed on numerous countries last year. Dissenting from this ruling were Justices Clarence Thomas,…
A pugged-up sewer that virtually destroyed an elderly Saco woman’s home wasn’t her fault.But city officials stuck her with a bill of nearly $30,000 to clean up the mess in the wake of the sewer…
The day before the one-year anniversary of the shootings, I learned of Ben Dyer and his story of survival and resilience. As President of the Lewiston Firefighters, the year following the shooting was occupied with…
Brewer Police Arrest Man Three Times in Under A Week After he Attacked Customers Outside a Local Business
The Brewer Police Department arrested the same man three times in less than a week, beginning on Saturday when he allegedly tried to fight customers leaving a Wilson Street business. [RELATED: Brewer Man Arrested on…
Mayor Of Maine’s Largest City Skeptical Of Fellow Democrat Graham Platner’s Campaign Rhetoric
U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is receiving some unsolicited advice from a member of his own party – the mayor of Portland.Mark Dion, during an appearance on Maine Wire TV, advised Platner to prove how…
The top elected official in Maine’s largest city called on the governor of his own party – who badly defeated him eight years ago – to stop criticizing federal immigration-enforcement police. Portland Mayor Mark Dion,…
QVC On Verge Of Bankruptcy Is Poetic Justice For Addicted Shoppers Facing The Same Prospect
The famous major-league star ballplayer Darryl Strawberry once said all addictions are the same.Strawberry actually wasn’t so prescient because he didn’t realize it until it was too late.He was self-admittedly addicted to drugs, sex -…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to go all-in on what he’s calling the “SAVE America Act,” and he put the central message in all caps: end mail-in ballots. In a Truth Social…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he is directing the Secretary of War and other federal departments and agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files related to “alien and extraterrestrial life,” unidentified aerial phenomena…
LEWISTON, Maine – Lewiston City Council President David Chittim sent a note to fellow councilors Thursday evening portraying the council chambers as a pressure cooker, and councilors as the ones forced to absorb “often unwarranted…
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Republican Party headquarters in Augusta was evacuated Thursday afternoon after staff received an envelope containing an unidentified white powder, prompting a hazmat response and an on-site quarantine for people inside…
New polling from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center offers some early insight into the 2028 presidential primary field for both the Democratic and Republican tickets. As the first state in the nation to…
LEWISTON, Maine — The campaign for gubernatorial candidate David Jones is raising new questions about how millions in charitable donations tied to the Lewiston mass shooting were distributed, alleging that tens of thousands of dollars…
Veteran Bangor Cop, Fighting Crime Nearly 50 Years, Gets Special Award For Helping Victims
Amy McCrea has seen crime from both sides, first as a patrol officer and now as a victim-witness advocate.Bangor Police honored McCrea with a service award Wednesday for her 10 years of work helping crime…
Fund Created To Benefit Families Of Maine Sailor, Other Six Victims Of Sunken Fishing Boat
Three weeks after a Maine fisherman and six of his fellow crew members died when their boat went down, searchers see little hope of salvaging the vessel.The victims of the Lily Jean sinking off Gloucester,…
New Executive Order Aims to Preserve Herbicide Identified as Serious Health Risk by RFK
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to increase the production of controversial glyphosate-based herbicides and to grant manufacturers immunity, citing national security concerns. [RELATED: Dyed-in-the-Diet No Longer: MAHA Scores Win in Striking…
Maine’s Largest Daily’s Recap Of Jesse Jackson’s Visits Completely Missed His Historic Paper Mill Strike Speech
Try as it might, the shallow, journalism-challenged Portland Press Herald just can’t catch a break. Amid its impotent efforts to actually cover news, it’s again outdone even itself in the category of incompetence.The paper published…
Thanks to the Trump Administration’s unprecedented release of Medicaid claims data, taxpayers may now get insight into how one of America’s most expensive welfare programs has been spending their money. (Note: The map is based…



























































