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Maine heating oil prices near $6 a gallon

In eastern and Down East Maine, prices range from a low of $5.50 to a high of $6.30.

Former Maine police officer pleads not guilty in alleged overtime fraud scheme

Timothy Barker, 55, allegedly tried to collect as much as $10,000 in overtime for traffic details he didn't work.

Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi

Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has died. He was 56. Flowers’ family confirmed that he died Wednesday at his home in Mississippi, attorney Rob McDuff told The Associated […]

Mamdani's Oct. 7 commemoration outrages supporters and critics of Israel

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to thread a needle on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks by condemning Hamas’ “horrific war crimes” and denouncing Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. It did not go well. Instead, his comments further angered some Jewish critics who consider his strong opposition to […]

Man with a gun and knife is fatally shot by security at Nashville federal courthouse, police say

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man armed with a pistol and knife was fatally shot by a security officer Thursday just inside the busy entrance of a federal courthouse in Tennessee’s largest city, authorities said. The man in his 40s tried to fire his gun but failed and then pulled out a knife at around […]