The Republican megadonor funding Maine’s referendum on transgender girls in sports

The case for I-395 connector route is not yet proven

“It is possible that heavy-truck traffic has decreased at least partly for reasons other than the connector route.”

Maine woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her in 2021

The woman told POLTICO Platner entered her home uninvited, intoxicated and had sex with her while she repeatedly told him to stop. Platner denies the allegation.

Former college basketball player Kerr Kriisa accused of fraud in $2.2M scheme

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Former college basketball player Kerr Kriisa lied and posed as other people as part of a scheme through which he fraudulently obtained nearly $2.2 million from two victims, according to a federal indictment. A federal grand jury in West Virginia indicted Kriisa last month, and the case was unsealed Monday following […]

Graham Platner postpones multiple events this week

The postponements came as multiple Democrats said they expected a national outlet to drop a story about Platner Monday or Tuesday.

Even 250 years in, the battle over the American story — and who gets to tell it — endures

DETROIT (AP) — From the beginning, many decades before it became the United States, American society was founded not on hundreds of years of common culture but on something less tangible: a series of stories that it told itself over and over — full of truth, tall tales and outright lies — until it willed […]