Bobby Charles, a Republican candidate for governor of Maine in 2026, discussed his platform focusing on cutting crime, taxes, and improving education. Charles highlighted Maine’s drug crisis, citing 10,000 overdoses last year, and his extensive experience in counter-narcotics and law enforcement. He criticized the state’s declining education system, noting Maine’s drop from 4th to 49th in national rankings. Charles also proposed eliminating the income tax and reducing the state budget by half to address the affordability crisis, particularly for seniors and young adults struggling with high property taxes and rental costs.
Local police discovered the body of an adult male inside a residence, with 45-year-old Tanner Dostie of Brunswick being charged with murder as a result.
The largest monthly jump in gas prices in six decades caused a sharp spike in inflation in March, creating major challenges for the inflation-fighters at the Federal Reserve and heightening the political challenges of rising costs for the White House.
Republican Clay Fuller on Tuesday won Marjorie Taylor Greene's former U.S. House seat in Georgia, turning back a Democratic challenge with the help of President Donald Trump's endorsement despite uneasiness over the war in Iran.
A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims' relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years.
Route 66 marks its 100th anniversary this year. Despite losing its status decades ago as one of the nation's main arteries, people from around the world still flock to it to take perhaps the quintessential American road trip and soak in its neon lights, kitschy motels and attractions, and culinary offerings.
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