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US Army finds communication failures in leadup to Maine mass shooting

July 23, 2024 10:21 pm

The Oct. 25 shooting spree at a bar and a bowling alley in Lewiston left 18 people dead and 13 wounded in the most lethal episode of gun violence in Maine's history.

Maine police kill armed man after a night of gunfire and burned homes

June 16, 2024 3:41 pm

Police said Leein Hinkley, 43, had been released on bail days earlier on a probation violation.

Ukrainian flags are on display all over Maine. Why?

November 27, 2022 9:11 am

Across Maine, the yellow and blue banner — yellow symbolizing the plentiful wheat fields of Ukraine, blue, the sky overhead — flutters from flagpoles.

Landlord in US finds 19 tarantulas and python after tenant vacates house

September 05, 2021 10:50 am

Netizens appreciated the efforts of the animal rescuer on Facebook to rescue the animals. While many said they were scared of tarantulas and snakes, some expressed their gratefulness towards Desjardins.

Something weird on the beach in Maine was staining their feet. But what?

June 11, 2021 1:54 pm

On Wednesday, Jim Britt, a spokesman for Maine’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, offered the likely answer: Millions of tiny black kelp flies that feed on decaying seaweed appeared to have died on one stretch of beach.

US fisherman finds bright orange lobster, a one-in-100 million catch

July 24, 2015 11:51 am

Robert Bayer, executive director of The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, says the odds of catching an orange lobster are one in several million.