5 years ago
Mainers can now vote online for the state bicentennial flag design
The state is seeking public input on three proposed designs for the flag that will commemorate Maine’s bicentennial.
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5 years ago
Fire consumes Penobscot McCrum office building in Belfast
A fire that broke out Thursday night spared the Penobscot McCrum potato-processing plant in Belfast, but completely destroyed an office building used by the company, according to fire officials.
5 years ago
North Korea fires 2 suspected missiles in possible new warning
North Korea fired two suspected short-range missiles on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, its second weapons launch in five days and a possible warning that nuclear disarmament talks with Washington could be in danger.
5 years ago
Fox terrorizes 2 Maine homes, biting woman and dogs before being killed with shovel
A Bowdoinham woman was bitten by a fox Tuesday evening shortly before the fox found its way into a neighboring house and was killed by a resident.
5 years ago
These French pilots almost beat Charles Lindbergh across the Atlantic. Did they crash in Maine?
It’s fun to speculate how the course of history might have changed had one thing happened, or not happened. For instance: What if Charles Lindbergh had not been the first person to fly non-stop between New York and Paris?
5 years ago
Don’t know which birds you spotted at Katahdin Woods & Waters? There’s now a list for that.
Birders and other visitors to Maine’s newest national monument will receive a valuable tool Saturday as Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters releases a checklist of more than 150 birds that can be found in the monument.
5 years ago
Maine CDC says hepatitis continues to rise in the state
Public health authorities in Maine said the state’s sharp rise in hepatitis cases is continuing.
5 years ago
Pilot program to offer more traditional cheering activity during fall sports season
Back when sideline cheering at high school football and basketball games around Maine was the rage during the 1980s, Denise Gelinas of Biddeford helped introduce a separate, more competitive side of that activity full of tumbling, jumps, stunts, pyramids and dance.
5 years ago
Foreign sailors detained in Portland as their employer faced dumping charges sue US government
Jaroslav Hornof, Damir Kordic and Lukas Zak were detained in Maine for 2½ months in 2017 as witnesses against the shipping company they worked for while it faced charges of dumping oily bilge water at sea and falsifying a log book to cover it up.
5 years ago
Trump reported $1.4 billion in losses to IRS, report says
Donald Trump reported $1.17 billion in financial losses to the IRS between 1985 and 1994, a massive run of red ink that kept him from paying income taxes during most of that period, according to a report published late Tuesday in The New York Times.
