Today is Friday. Temperatures will be in the high 60s to low 70s from north to south, with heavy rain throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken Tuesday, July 6, 2021, at 5:50 p.m. EDT, and provided by NOAA, shows Tropical Storm Elsa in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. Credit: NOAA via AP
A flash flood warning has been issued for inland and Down East Maine as Tropical Storm Elsa travels up the East Coast, the National Weather Services in Caribou and Gray announced on Thursday evening.
Traffic on Interstate 95 is diverted Saturday in the area of an hours long standoff with a group of armed men that partially shut down the highway in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
The men, who belong to the group the Rise of the Moors, were on their way to Maine for “training,” and the license plates raise further questions about their ties to the state.
A sign for Puritan is on display outside the Pittsfield facility.
Puritan Medical Products furloughed 180 employees at its North Main Street plant in Pittsfield last month, and it will last for three more weeks as the company finalizes new orders from the federal government.
In this Sept. 6, 2013, file photo, the yacht Sequoia motors on the Anacostia River in Washington. Credit: Alex Brandon / AP
The Floating White House hosted many heads of state in its heyday. But it’s fallen on hard times, even being occupied by a family of raccoons at one point.
Benjamin Rogers, of Holden, smiles at Eddington Fire Department. Rogers’ appointment to a third full-time position will allow the department to have a firefighter available at all times. Credit: Courtesy of Eddington Fire Department
It’s the first time in 47 years since Eddington had a firefighter on duty 24/7.
Brent Hutchins (right) seen with co-star Robin Veysey, directs his play “Downeast Shakes and Shenanigans” for the Grand Theatre in Ellsworth. Credit: Emily Burnham / BDN
Brent Hutchins jettisoned some of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan language for Maine vernacular, both salty and sweet.
This photo, taken July 31, 2020, via a drone near Bailey Island in Harpswell, shows a great white shark, according to a Massachusetts shark expert. Credit: Courtesy of Maine Marine Patrol
The receivers, 11 in total, recorded pings from sharks that had been tagged with transmitters by researchers who are collecting data about the presence of sharks along the coast.
A Presque Isle Fire Department truck and a police vehicle block traffic Thursday at the intersection of Main and Maple streets during a standoff across from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Credit: Paula Brewer / Presque Isle Star-Herald
Police killed a man who was shooting a handgun behind a business at 174 Main St. across from the University of Maine at Presque Isle.
Members of the University of Maine football team practice on the brand new artificial turf surface at Morse Field in Alfond Stadium in Orono. Credit: Larry Mahoney / BDN
The updated turf field is part of the $90 million Harold Alfond Foundation gift for sports facilities upgrades at the university, and plays a critical role for the team in its ability to recruit future players.
