Morning Update: What you need to know in Maine today

Federal election monitors will observe polling in South Portland next week

The Justice Department already has announced plans to deploy monitors to Portland and Lewiston on Tuesday.

2 earthquakes have shaken Maine this week

The first quake hit near Brownville on Monday, and a second temblor rattled Windsor on Wednesday.

The Latest: Peltola denies knowing of effort to put another Sullivan on Senate ballot

Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola has denied knowing anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent, as the Justice Department escalated a criminal investigation with new grand jury subpoenas. President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled weekend rallies in Iowa and Kansas, opting instead […]

'Time is the fire in which we burn': 2 major cast losses rock the passionate 'Star Trek' universe

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the countless memorable lines that have tumbled out of the “Star Trek” universe over the years is this gem, originally from a 20th-century poet named Delmore Schwartz: “Time is the fire in which we burn.” It was uttered as an existential warning to Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in the 1994 film […]

For many, striped bass fishing is a way of life. But the iconic species could face collapse

MONTAUK, N.Y. (AP) — Striped bass fishing has been Bill Jakob’s passion for more than 60 years, and he remembers an era when he’d spend all night casting his line into the crashing waves off Montauk and get eight or nine fish ranging up to 40 pounds (18 kilograms), a big catch by anyone’s standards. […]