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Wabanaki Alliance to host Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration

AUGUSTA — The Wabanaki Alliance will host an Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration on Monday, Oct. 12 in Capitol Park at 33 Union St. in Augusta.  The opening ceremony begins at 10 a.m. and will be led by Maulian Bryant, executive director of the Wabanaki Alliance. The event will feature drumming, dancing and screenings of the […]

ICE officers shot New York man because they believed they were in danger, official says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration officers opened fire on a Dominican man whom they were trying to arrest in New York because they believed their lives were in danger, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday. Marcos Charles made the comments alongside U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and other immigration officials during […]

US government asks judge to dismiss lawsuit over Army's handling of Lewiston mass shooter

The U.S. attorney argued that the Army's decisions about Robert Card were judgment calls and therefore the federal government can't be held liable.

Jury finds man guilty of Calais teen's 1984 slaying

It took the jury only an hour to return a guilty verdict against 67-year-old Raymond Brown.

Isaias is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane as it nears the US Gulf Coast

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (AP) — Isaias was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane Friday as it headed toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, where final preparations were being made for potentially life-threatening storm surges and high winds. The hurricane is forecast to make landfall late Friday somewhere along the Alabama-Florida line and create dangerous […]