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$4.6M awarded for wetland restoration around the Maine
The projects include restoring the largest freshwater wetland in Acadia, which has seen extensive flooding, and removing dams in Yarmouth.
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Hermon Middle School quarter 4 honor roll
High honors Grade 8 DiFrederico, Ava R. Estes, Zoe E Hutchinson, Adelin E McClary, Grace K Miville, Halle C Nadeau, Jesse O Pinette, Anna-Reta C Smith, Elise D Grade 7 Bart, Olivia N Dube, Emery R Dunn, Lillian T Fournier, Kaylan E Gerry, Jacob P Kerswell, Ruby Mehrhoff, Gavin M Morin, Logan J Pinette, Harrison […]
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5mUS Senator warns of administration plan to hastily remove over 500 unaccompanied migrant children
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic U.S. senator warns the Trump administration is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing legal protections. It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of […]
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5mFederal judge halts Trump’s election executive order seeking to create a federal voter list
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, sided with a coalition of nearly two dozen states that challenged […]
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6mAI is plowing through the workplace. This new group wants to help people adapt and have jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) — America has been rushing into an artificial intelligence future without much of a plan to stop what could be catastrophic job losses. Critics warn of doomsday scenarios out of a sci-fi thriller, while backers say AI will generate so much new wealth that no one should worry too much about millions of […]
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3mMan convicted of fatally stabbing his wife set to be ninth person executed this year in Florida
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife decades ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke for the 1992 stabbing death of his wife Karen. If carried out, […]