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U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Friday she wanted to hear from President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser and the U.S. ambassador to the European Union before voting to acquit Trump of impeachment charges this week.
History may record this week as a turning point in the American experiment — the day that we stepped away from the Framers’ vision, enabled a new and unbounded presidency and made ourselves observers rather than full participants in the shaping of our country’s future.
Expect most — if not all — of the media attention to be on getting her to flesh out a Wednesday vote to acquit President Donald Trump on impeachment charges while calling his actions relating to Ukraine “wrong.”
One person died in the crash, and another was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A lobster fishing cooperative that is suing its former CEO in federal court has hired two people to round out its new management team.
As schools in the Bangor area woo students from towns with high school choice, John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor held its Step-Up Day on Thursday to give eighth graders an opportunity to tour the school, talk to students, meet teachers and observe a school day.
Freezing rain on Friday morning is causing tricky travel conditions across the state as untreated roads, parking lots and sidewalks are essentially skating rinks.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has a healthy fundraising lead in her 2020 bid for re-election, but an onslaught of ads against her by dark-money groups has her spending to defend herself on the air while her most well-funded Democratic opponent introduces herself.
The amount of waste that goes to the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town has been climbing upward for the last six years — a trend that continued this past year partly as a result of new state restrictions on the use of wastewater sludge as a fertilizer.
A new lesson I learned: You can go back again.
Maine students’ math performance declined for a fourth straight year last year, according to the latest batch of standardized test results released by the state Department of Education.
When Jesse Erickson weighs in for Saturday night’s NEF 42 mixed martial arts bout against undefeated Josh Harvey at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, he won’t be giving away nearly the poundage he did for one of his most recent athletic competitions.
Former state Sen. Eric Brakey and former state Rep. Dale Crafts clashed over foreign policy in a Thursday debate among the three Republicans vying for the party’s nomination in to take on U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in Maine’s 2nd District.
A Bucksport woman was indicted Thursday for allegedly setting fires and stringing toilet paper along the floor throughout her home before disappearing into the woods of Bucksport and Orland for eight days in November.
Two days before Jennifer Bryant Flynn and Regina Long were gunned down in Machias and Jonesboro, both expressed fears that they would be shot to death. But the person they feared was not the man charged in the Monday shooting spree.
A political committee funded by gas generators is facing up to $25,000 in fines from Maine’s ethics regulator after injecting hundreds of thousands into a campaign against Central Maine Power’s hydropower corridor.
Republicans in the Maine Legislature on Thursday revived the idea of diverting a large portion of vehicle sales tax revenue to roads and bridges in a move that could further complicate negotiations around solving a similarly sized transportation shortfall.
Fields Pond is a 191-acre pond in Orrington that’s long been a popular place for paddling, fishing, swimming and ice skating.
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