Judge accepts plea deal for school bus driver who killed 12-year-old in Rockland

Vacated Brewer council seat will remain empty until November

Bill Kimball resigned from his seat July 29 because he wasn’t able to commit the amount of time he wanted to the position.

Katahdin Woods and Waters is celebrating 10th anniversary this weekend

The weekend events including ranger-led paddles, dark sky viewing and Indigenous earring-making demonstrations.

Medicaid says it will stop paying for some gender-affirming care for transgender minors

President Donald Trump’s administration said that Medicaid will stop paying for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors and the state Children’s Health Insurance Program won’t pay for the treatments for those under 19. The announcement is the latest in a series of policies from the administration aimed at transgender people that began the […]

ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by the […]

At Lindsay Clancy trial, focus turns to medications prescribed before she killed her 3 children

Lindsay Clancy messaged one of her caregivers less than two months before she killed her three young children in 2023 to say she was having “intrusive thoughts I never had before,” “feeling completely hopeless” and worried about becoming addicted to some medications. Rebecca Jollotta, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at South Shore Health Perinatal Behavior Health […]