Portland firefighter Mike Nixon has been battling fires since 1986. Every time he enters a burning building, he is immersed in “this toxic soup of chemicals that are off-gassing.” Nixon said his repeated exposure to toxic chemicals are to blame for an aggressive case of melanoma, for which he was diagnosed in 2012. “It spread from my […]
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Local blood donation opportunities available
The following blood drives are taking place in the southern Midcoast area: Brunswick: Oct. 16, 1-6 p.m., Saint Charles Brunswick, 132 McKeen St.; Oct. 30, 2:30-7:30 p.m., Mid Coast Hospital, 123 Medical Center Drive. Topsham: Oct. 21, 1-6 p.m., ARC Mid Coast Chapter, 16 Community Way. Woolwich: Oct. 19, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Days Ferry Congregational Church, […]
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Annual benefit auction returns to Brunswick
The Brunswick Downtown Association’s 15th Annual Benefit Auction will take place on Thursday, Oct. 17 from 5-7:30 p.m. at The Daniel, 10 Water St., Brunswick. Magic on Maine Live & Silent Auction is the largest fundraiser of the year for the Brunswick Downtown Association whose mission is to promote downtown Brunswick as a vibrant and […]
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Border Patrol agent accused of ‘textbook racial profiling’
PORTLAND — The U.S. Border Patrol’s suspicions about a family were aroused because they appeared to be of “Central-American origin” and because they spoke Spanish while shopping at a store in Maine, an advocacy group complained Monday. An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine described the agent’s comments, outlined in a Border […]
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Maine briefs: Green Independent member considers challenging Collins; Students protest school’s handling of sexual assault claims; Maine suspends pharmacy whose drugs killed 2 racehorses
Green Independent member considers challenging Collins SOLON, Maine (AP) — An environmental and peace activist is forming an exploratory committee to consider running against Republican Sen. Susan Collins in 2020. Lisa Savage, of Solon, would run as a Green Independent Party candidate. She said Monday she’d provide an alternative to the political establishment that brought […]
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Bingham aquaculture facility kept fish in cruel, unsanitary conditions, group says
The owner of a Bingham aquaculture hatchery has apologized after a nonprofit group’s undercover investigation alleges to have recorded evidence of fish at the facility being improperly treated and killed while being stored in unsanitary conditions. That has also prompted state animal welfare officials to conduct its own probe of salmon hatchery Cooke Aquaculture. The […]
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Family of man injured in Farmington blast asks supporters: ‘Keep Larry in your prayers’
FARMINGTON — The family of Larry Lord, the maintenance supervisor of LEAP Inc. who was burned over half his body in a liquid propane explosion Sept. 16, reported on his condition and thanked the public through a GoFundMe page over the weekend. Lord, 61, remained in critical condition Monday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. […]
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Justice Department supports Mainers’ challenge of religious school tuition ban
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of three Maine families who are challenging a decades-old state law that bars tuition reimbursement for attending religious schools. In its filing Monday at the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, where the case is pending, […]
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Auburn man indicted in fatal shooting in Walmart parking lot
AUBURN — An Auburn man who was charged in July with shooting another man in the local Walmart parking lot was indicted by an Androscoggin County grand jury Monday on a charge of intentional or knowing murder. The indictment against Gage Dalphonse, 21, comes less than a week after Justice William Stokes ordered that Dalphonse be […]
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Maine delegation members call Syria withdrawal ‘harmful mistake,’ ‘terribly unwise’
AUGUSTA — Members of Maine’s congressional delegation denounced the Trump administration’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from areas along the Syrian-Turkish on Monday, warning that the move could harm important Kurdish allies and threaten U.S. national security. The Trump administration’s decision was roundly criticized by Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Many of those critics – including […]