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15+ hour, 52+ min ago (35+ words) The Maine Lottery offers several games for those aiming to win big. You can pick from national lottery games, like the Powerball and Mega Millions, or a variety of local and regional games, like the ......

20+ hour, 16+ min ago (681+ words) Most attendees were not Somali, but say they turned out to show their solidarity. The event also drew a long roster of elected officials and candidates. The rally was organized by Safiya Khalid, a former Lewiston city council who became the first Somali-American to hold that role when she was elected in 2019. She addressed a crowd circled around the gazebo in Lewiston's snow-covered Kennedy Park downtown, delivering her response to Trump's attacks. "We are here today to say something clearly and without apology, we are not going anywhere," she said, to cheers. Khalid drew a historical comparison between today's anti-Somali rhetoric, and past waves of xenophobia and discrimination against Irish and French-Canadian immigrants in Maine. "Every generation has seen a community scapegoated, blamed and dehumanized in moments of fear and political convenience," Khalid said. "And history has never been kind…...

22+ hour, 33+ min ago (234+ words) Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced Monday in an op-ed that she will allow a state bill to become law, which will not allow local law enforcement to work with ICE on immigration enforcement unless it's related to a criminal investigation. The governor said she would allow LD 1971 to become state law without her signature, declining to veto the legislation, and also repealed a 2011 executive order that enhanced cooperation between state and federal officials on immigration enforcement. Under the state constitution, Mills can no longer sign the legislation but can allow it to become law without her signature or veto it within three days of the state legislature reconvening, the governor's office said in a news release. "I also agree with the bill's aim of ensuring that Maine law enforcement are enforcing Maine laws, not Federal immigration law," she continued....

22+ hour, 42+ min ago (243+ words) Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Phillip Rench is ending his campaign, citing "an unforeseen personal circumstance," he said Sunday. The political newcomer and former SpaceX engineer was running as an independent to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins. The seat is viewed as a top pick-up opportunity for Democrats as they try to regain control of the closely divided Senate. Rench's candidacy drew attention earlier this year when his former boss, Elon Musk, was making headlines for leading an aggressive effort to cut federal spending. Rench did not provide details about his personal circumstances, but said he's ending his campaign "out of an abundance of caution" and that he's interesting in running again in 2030. That's when independent Sen. Angus King's term ends. But Rench also expressed concerns that social issues were taking priority over affordability issues and the national debt, which he said…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (502+ words) A panel of Maine judges is weighing whether to publicly reprimand a justice from the state's highest court who has been accused of wrongdoing by the state's Committee on Judicial Conduct. Catherine Connors, an associate justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, did not recuse herself in 2024 from two major foreclosure cases, which overturned precedent set by rulings in earlier cases that protected homeowners not appropriately notified that they had defaulted on their loans. As a private attorney before joining the court, Connors regularly represented banks and banking interests and worked for them on the cases that led to precedent-setting decisions that she was a part of overturning last year. The judicial conduct committee has said Connors violated a portion of the state's rules for judges by failing to recuse herself from a case in which a "reasonable person" might…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (292+ words) Earlier this month, Cal-Maine Foods announced that Johnathan Zoeller, a veteran with over 25 years in senior finance roles and most recently Vice President, Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations at Westlake Corporation, has joined as Chief Financial Officer for its Prepared Foods business. His background leading global treasury, risk management, and investor relations at a Fortune 500 industrial company could strengthen Cal-Maine's financial discipline and communication with the market as it builds out higher-value prepared egg offerings. Next, we'll examine how Zoeller's Fortune 500 treasury and investor relations experience may influence Cal-Maine Foods' broader investment narrative. However, one risk stands out that shareholders cannot afford to ignore. Cal-Maine Foods' shares have been on the rise but are still potentially undervalued. Find out how large the opportunity might be. Eighteen fair value views from the Simply Wall St Community span roughly US$15 to…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago (58+ words) Police say the suspect was a courier who had been dispatched to meet the victim of a tech support scam and collect an undisclosed amount of gold from them. Police say the suspect was a courier who had been dispatched to meet the victim of a tech support scam and collect an undisclosed amount of gold from them....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago (49+ words) President Donald Trump is in Baltimore this Saturday to watch the annual Army-Navy football game. During the 2024 season, Blake Horvath powered Navy to a 31-13 win over Army. The dual-threat ... Maine received light, fluffy snow on Sunday and some communities saw several inches of snowfall....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago (139+ words) Eight Subway locations closed last week by state regulators have reopened. MTF Subway franchise owner Michael T. Fay has confirmed that all of his franchise locations in Maine are open for business, following the closure of eight of them last Wednesday. Maine Revenue Services ordered what it characterized as "several" Subway locations closed for "for noncompliance with Part 3, 36 M.R.S.A.," which primarily governs Maine's sales and use tax. The agency did not elaborate and would only reiterate Monday that, "Due to confidentiality requirements, MRS cannot comment on individual tax situations." In an email to the Sun Journal Monday, Fay confirmed that eight of his locations were affected by the ordered closures, after the state revoked the registration certificates for each location. Fay stated that none of his employees were laid off by the company....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago (479+ words) As Charter Communications lays off all 176 employees at its Portland call center,experts expect more static on the line for Maine's labor market. The Connecticut-based owner of the Spectrum telecommunications brand, which employed 700 people in Maine as of August, is realigning resources to boost efficiency while underscoring its continued investment in the state. Job market watchers view the cuts as an early indicator of further disruptions. "I don't expect that the Portland layoffs to be an isolated event," said Oak McCoy, an assistant economics professor at the University of New England's College of Business. "They are an early signal of stress in a sector that's being reshaped both by economic conditions and technology." The layoffs at Charter Communications, he said, reflect both a cooling job market and longer-term changes in how companies structure work. "Call centers are part of the…...