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77% Of Us Will Do This…..

77% of adults plan to buy themselves more Christmas presents this year as a reward for getting through 2020. The average is six gifts.

 

Local Headlines

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Penobscot County deputies are looking for suspects who they say stabbed man in the neck during a robbery in Eddington Thursday morning.

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National Headlines

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The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks.