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Postal Service chief says work stopped on computer system key to Trump effort to limit mail voting

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top official at the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to President Donald Trump’s effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order this week. “There’s an injunction so we’re not doing anything,” […]

Maine woman harvests sea salt on remote offshore island

Twenty-three miles from the closest grocery store through the saltiest of seas, there was no running out to pick some up.

Bangor Public Library is displaying one of the earliest Declaration of Independence copies

The showing is part of the first statewide tour for the Maine Historical Society’s copy of the document.

A judge rejects Pamela Smart’s latest bid for a new trial in 1990 accomplice to murder case

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire judge on Thursday dismissed the latest petition for a new trial from Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student more than three decades ago. Smart, 59, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began […]

Maine fights ruling that it illegally fired immigrant whose work permit briefly lapsed

David Abafi, an epidemiologist, grew up in Nigeria and immigrated to the U.S. in 2021.