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Read the 911 transcript as 10 ambulances refused to save a dying Maine woman
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (183+ words) Rachel Worster Hunter died at her Macwahoc Plantation home on Jan. 8, 2025, after 10 ambulance services refused to drive to her home. She died from low potassium, a medical condition she had long grappled with, according to her husband, Michael Hunter. Rachel…...
Maine Court Lets Dad Decide on Daughter's Church Attendance
1+ week, 4+ day ago (299+ words) Maine's top court has stepped into a parental fight over religion, and the dad now has the last word. The state's Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court order giving father Matthew... Maine Court Lets Dad Decide on…...
Maine has seen the nation's 3rd-highest jump in ICE arrests of people with no criminal records
1+ week, 3+ day ago (468+ words) Through July of this year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested 488 people in Maine, according to federal data obtained and published by the Deportation Data Project. That’s already well above the total for all of last year, when the agency…...
Man in Bigfoot costume prompts high number of calls to police in coastal Maine town
1+ week, 4+ day ago (283+ words) Police in the tiny Maine coastal village of Damariscotta were inundated with calls on Tuesday reporting sightings of Bigfoot across town, officials said in a Wednesday social media post, addressing reports of a large and hairy individual roaming about town....
Maine to receive $56 million in landmark Meta settlement over addictive features
2+ week, 5+ day ago (397+ words) Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced on Wednesday that he, along with the attorneys general of 50 other states and territories, had reached a settlement agreement with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, over concerns about the addictive nature…...
ICE arrested 75 people in Maine in June, highest monthly total since January surge
2+ week, 4+ day ago (312+ words) Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 75 people in Maine in June, according to newly released figures from the Deportation Data Project, a group of researchers and lawyers. That’s the highest monthly total since the federal enforcement surge in January. The Deportation…...
Erratic driver arrested in Bangor - Newport Dispatch
3+ week, 3+ day ago (200+ words) BANGOR, ME — More than a dozen 911 calls led state police to an erratic driver on Interstate 95 on Wednesday. The Bangor Regional Communications Center received 14 calls at approximately 5:32 p.m. reporting a box truck driving erratically on I-95 southbound in Old Town....
A longstanding loophole in Maine prison disciplinary policy allows for punishment regardless of guilt
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1253+ words) Incarcerated Mainers are pushing back against a longstanding loophole in the Department of Corrections’ disciplinary policy that allows staff to issue punishments before and regardless of a finding of guilt. “It flat out just denies incarcerated people their due process…...
Another Maine police department uses an AI startup to write reports
3+ week, 5+ day ago (564+ words) An artificial intelligence startup that lets police officers generate incident reports from body camera footage is expanding its foothold in Maine. Code Four, which first entered the state when it provided its software to Wilton police, now has a contract…...
Maine sheriff???s deputy shoots man after he aimed gun at police responding to domestic incident, officials say
3+ week, 5+ day ago (259+ words) A Maine sheriff’s deputy shot a man after he allegedly aimed a gun at law enforcement Monday in Brownfield, according to a statement from the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office. Aric Junkins, 40, of Brownfield, was allegedly chasing his wife with a…...