The backlog, which grew from 46,000 to 56,000 since last week, means the state has been severely undercounting the daily case totals that have been a prominent measure of the pandemic.
Songbird Organic Farm has been advised it can leave its produce on shelves, since the products pose an apparently low risk level of PFAS contamination.
Justice William Anderson heard arguments in a case that began about a year ago, when the Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald jointly sued Maine’s largest police force over redactions it made to final records of officer discipline.
