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render left third party share bar style=”background: url(../images/patterns/paper-noise.png) top left white;” story headline PPress Herald gets push-back from North Woods story. Portland, ME (NEWS CENTER) — The Maine Warden Service today released a seven page document disclaiming an investigative report by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. The Service defended the actions of an undercover…
T hey swept in after dark on a cold winter’s night: some 30 armed wardens backed by state troopers and shadowed by two film crews from the television show “North Woods Law.” Riding in two dozen vehicles, lights flashing, they rushed up the only road into Allagash as a convoy, then began peeling off in…
Police come to shoo away panhandlers, referee parking disputes and check on foul-mouthed teenagers. They are called to arrest the man who drinks a 98-cent iced tea without paying and capture the customer who joyrides on a motorized shopping cart. BODY CAM VIDEO The calls eat up hours of officers’ time. They all start…
The Obama administration will order all US public schools to allow transgender students to access restrooms that match their identities in a move that escalates the national fight over LGBT rights that has erupted in response to North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom bill”. The Justice Department and department of education will send the decree, a copy…
The Russian government is not known for being particularly straightforward with facts. Russia is currently backing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his brutal, 5-year-long war to regain control of his country from rebels. As part of that effort, Russia’s government and state-owned media want to discredit the people fighting against Assad. Those people include the…
12:53 PM, Wed., May 11, 2016 Hi everyone. Thanks for coming out and listening. My name is Kathryn Borel. In December of 2014, I pressed sexual assault charges against Jian Ghomeshi. As you know, Mr. Ghomeshi initially denied all the charges that were brought against him. But today, as you just heard, Jian Ghomeshi admitted…
What if victims of domestic violence didn’t have to worry that their abusers will come after them, guns a-blazin’, PEW PEW PEW, you’re dead? Sure, it would mean putting the lives of women — who die at the hands of their intimate partners every day, most often by being shot to death — above the absolute God-given unalienable right…
HARTFORD — The House of Representatives passed a bill that seeks to sever the often deadly link between domestic violence and firearms. The law would require those subject to a temporary restraining order to give up their guns. The 104 to 42 vote broke largely, although not exclusively, along party lines. It came after more…
An Oregonian who goes by the name Avril Lavigne appeared in a Multnomah County court on Tuesday after cops picked up the local for failing to register as a sex offender. The 30-year-old, whose birth name is Romany Yves Mesina, had a legal name-change in 2014 but did not offer an explanation for selecting the handle…
Photo Protesters rallied outside the Capitol against House Bill 2 in Raleigh, N.C., last month. Credit Ray Whitehouse for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday warned North Carolina state officials that they would lose millions of dollars in federal funding unless they change the controversial measure limiting access to bathrooms…