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The University of Maine women’s basketball team went into Friday night’s game against Green Bay with only nine healthy players. The 2-acre business that produces road salt on Coldbrook Road in Hermon has come a long way since Ryan McPike bought it from his father a decade ago. Maine is again trying to reduce waitlists for services to people with intellectual disabilities or autism that have grown to some of the highest levels ever. “It seemed like she was always crying." A jury on Friday found a former Bangor Region YMCA swim coach not guilty of fondling a female assistant coach’s breast when they were returning from a Brunswick meet last year. At least 350 students from St. John Valley schools were kept home by their parents over a widely shared Facebook post threatening gun violence that authorities had ruled out as a legitimate threat. An inmate serving a 30-year sentence for murder died Thursday night at Maine State Prison, authorities said. The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office said a man died after his car crashed into a stream in West Paris Friday morning. Gov. Janet Mills on Friday announced a new anti-vaping campaign set to launch early next year. The Damariscotta Board of Selectmen approved a fee schedule for marijuana businesses modeled after the fees in Auburn, which has the highest fees in the state, Wednesday, Dec. 4. “We’ve got dog behavior issues, we’ve got people who don’t pick up their poop bags, and we have people who don’t even use poop bags,” said Kittery Town Council Chairwoman Judy Spiller. Maine State Police and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency agents charged three people with drug trafficking Wednesday night following a traffic stop on I-95 near Bangor. The House is expected to take up the two articles of impeachment next week. The returning Rams, buoyed by two key transfers and several promising youngsters, are savoring the challenge of pursuing their own championship challenge. Bryce Lausier of Hampden Academy is coming off a junior year when he earned Bangor Daily News All-Maine third-team recognition after averaging 19.1 points, 7.1 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game. A Penobscot County jury on Thursday awarded an Ellsworth man nearly $850,000 for a botched hernia operation that required additional hospitalizations to correct and kept him from working as a lobsterman for more than two years. Troy Ripley has spent the past 13 years dealing with the worst kind of grief a parent can feel and trying to make things better. Monson, with a population of 654, received a $7,000 grant from the foundation’s Broadband Initiative to equip its downtown area with free public Wi-Fi. Four of nine Maine residents facing federal drug charges after the FBI conducted a series of raids in Hancock and Washington counties this past spring that resulted in more than two dozen arrests have pleaded guilty in federal court. Sharon Carrillo admitted to helping to beat her daughter, 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy, to death in February 2018. Despite that, her attorney Chris MacLean argued in court on Thursday, there is no evidence — other than her own words and those of her estranged husband, Julio Carrillo — that she did what she said she did.
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