Today is Friday. Temperatures will be in the low 80s to mid-70s from north to south, with sunny skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
Gordon Hagerman stands in the Littleton Pit Stop, a gas station, convenience store and diner located in Littleton. In keeping with the town’s ordinance forbidding liquor sales, the store does not sell any alcoholic beverages.
Maine is known for its craft breweries, and has more per capita than any other state in the U.S. But vestiges of Prohibition remain across the countryside.
Jeffrey Bishop, 53, of Cherryfield is facing charges for allegedly furnishing drugs at Narraguagus High School in Harrington. Bishop is a former Calais police officer.
Jeffrey Bishop, a minister’s son who was a police officer for 25 years, once aspired to be a leader. But he’s accused of having led a double life.
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, center of the front row, poses with leaders from Maine’s four federally recognized Native tribes during a meeting at the Penobscot Nation’s Indian Island Reservation on Thursday.
The group discussed issues the Wabanaki tribes face due to federal and state laws from 40 years ago, which grant them less control over their own affairs than other tribes across the nation.
In this Aug. 31, 2020, file photo, Mark Cardilli Jr. enters the Cumberland County Courthouse for his sentencing in Portland.
Mark Cardilli Jr., now 26, fatally shot Isahak Muse, 22, in an early morning family fight on March 16, 2019, at Cardilli’s parents’ home. Muse had been dating Cardilli’s sister, Chelsey Cardilli, then 17, for about a year when her brother returned home from a stint in the U.S. Army 11 days prior to the shooting.
In this 2009 file photo, a cow moose and its calf are pictured on Round Pond in northern Maine. Former Game Warden and BDN Outdoors contributor Jim Fahey says it is best not to intervene when a young animal is discovered alone in the wild.
