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Maine moose season beginning as bear season winds down

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (AP) – Maine’s annual moose hunt is soon to get started just as the state’s bear hunt…

Maine lobster business salvaged its summer despite pandemic

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Maine’s lobster fishermen braced for a difficult summer this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but…

Police chief accused of domestic assault is released on bail

A police chief accused of choking a woman with whom he’d had an affair has been released on bail.

Maine school district, teen agree to end lawsuit over sexual assault note

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The Cape Elizabeth School Department has agreed to remove any record of discipline against a student who posted a note about sexual assault last year.

2 killed in fiery truck crash in Alfred

ALFRED, Maine (AP) Deputies say two young men were killed when a truck crashed into a tree and burst into flames in Alfred, Maine.

Oxford County moved to “yellow” category under Maine’s coronavirus risk advisory system

The administration of Governor Janet Mills has updated it’s COVID-19 risk advisory system for Maine’s schools.

Prosecutor: NY man shot woman alongside road over insults

Prosecutors say a man who’s the first person to go on trial for murder in Maine since the start of the pandemic fatally shot the victim because she’d insulted the mother of his children.

Police, game wardens search for missing Portland man who went camping

Police and Maine Game Wardens are searching for a missing Portland man in the town of Denmark.

GOP makes last-ditch attack on ranked presidential tally

The Maine Republican Party is asking the state supreme court to put on hold its ruling that allowed ranked choice voting in the presidential contest.

Maine Game Wardens locate body of missing 81-year-old

Maine Game Wardens have located the body of a missing 81-year-old man.

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Brewer woman accidentally shot during northern Maine hunting trip

31-year-old Amber Oaks was taken to a hospital in Caribou where wardens said she is getting surgery to clean the wound.

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New report suggests Maine already/will soon be in a recession

Credit rating company Moody's reports that the current economic problems are driven largely by a mixture of slowing immigration, increasing tariffs, and federal job cuts.

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Biddeford man charged with manslaughter in death of 5-week-old

Police have arrested a man charged in the killing of an infant in Biddeford last year.

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Deputies seeking teenager reported missing in Pownal

Police are looking for a teenager who may have run away from her home in Pownal.

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Judge tosses out Drake’s defamation lawsuit against label over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’

A defamation lawsuit that Drake brought against Universal Music Group was tossed out Thursday by a federal judge who said the lyrics in Kendrick Lamar's dis track "Not Like Us" were opinion.