Marcel LaGrange will be sentenced later this year.
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Local Maine news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Did Portland ban the sale of menthol tobacco? | Fact brief
A statewide effort to ban all flavored tobacco products across Maine stalled in the Legislature last year.
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Meet the candidates for Topsham Select Board
Two candidates are running unopposed for open seats in Topsham’s town government.
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Brunswick school board candidates share plans for next term
Brunswick residents will vote for school board candidates in Districts 1, 2 and 6 this November.
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Bomb threat at Colby College cancels classes, closes buildings
The college said it received an email saying that a bomb was placed in a Colby library.
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Abstract artist uses shadow and color to portray Maine’s underwater coast
Surry-based abstractionist Richard Keen talked about his process and inspirations at Pineland Farms’ Unity Environmental University.
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Man hit by truck on turnpike in Biddeford; police say he was running from them
The Ellsworth man was seriously injured when he was hit Sunday night near Exit 32.
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Trump administration pulls climate change signs from Acadia National Park
The signs, installed in 2023 atop Cadillac Mountain and at the Great Meadow wetland, detailed steps being taken to combat rising temperatures and extreme weather.
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Casco Bay protesters hope Gaza flotilla will help turn tide
Some 50 demonstrators with the Maine Coalition for Palestine took to the sea Sunday morning in solidarity with an international flotilla that will attempt to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza later this week.
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Across the country, older men are dying at higher rates of gun suicide. Here’s what that looks like in Maine.
More older Mainers died by gun suicide than they did in car crashes over a 15-year period. The numbers represent a troubling trend playing out in rural communities across the country.