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Report suggests some deputies responding to Maine mass shooting were intoxicated
An independent commission investigating the deadliest shooting in Maine history plans to take up accusations in a report that contended self-dispatching police officers created “chaos” during the search for the gunman.
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Army reservist's family describes struggle to get help before mass shooting in Maine
Family members of an Army reservist who killed 18 people in Maine gave an emotional apology on Thursday and said Army officials and law enforcement frustrated their efforts to get him mental health care before the deadly rampage.
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Maine bars Trump from ballot as US Supreme Court weighs state authority to block former president
Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Trump remains eligible to return to the White House. While Maine has just four electoral votes, it’s...
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Maine mass shooter was alive for most of massive 2-day search, autopsy suggests
The Army reservist who opened fire inside at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, before disappearing was alive and possibly on the run during a good portion of the massive search that followed, according to a conclusion from the state medical examiner’s office released Friday. Robert Card died from a self-inflicted gunshot that “likely” happened eight...
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Maine mass shooter's family reached out to sheriff 5 months before rampage
Five months before the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history, the gunman’s family alerted the sheriff that they were becoming “concerned” about his deteriorating mental health while he had access to firearms, authorities said Monday. After the alert, the Sagadohoc County Sheriff’s Office reached out to officials of Robert Card’s Army Reserve unit, which assured deputies that they would...
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Facial recognition tech helps nab 86-year-old man who stole dead brother's identity in 1965
An 86-year-old man accused of assuming his brother’s identity decades ago and using it to double dip on Social Security benefits has been convicted of several charges, caught by facial recognition technology that matched the same face to two different identities, authorities say. Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, Maine, assumed the identity of his brother in 1965, a quarter century after…
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Maine's Valentine's Day Bandit Revealed in Death. Will the Tradition Continue?
The identity of the so-called Valentine’s Day bandit, responsible for leaving hundreds of red hearts in downtown Portland for more than four decades, has been revealed in death. Kevin Fahrman, of Falmouth, was chief instigator of a group of feel-good pranksters who struck every year on Feb. 14, family and friends said, a tradition that put smiles on people’s...
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Man Killed Parents, 2 Others Before Maine Highway Shooting, Police Say
Authorities have shared new information on a pair of shootings Tuesday that left four people dead in Bowdoin, Maine, and three more hospitalized, one critically injured, on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth.
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ISO New England Fines Power Plants $39M for Coming Up Short on Christmas Eve
As New Englanders celebrated Christmas Eve, the power grid operator came closer to ordering rolling blackouts than it had in more than four years as several power plants failed to deliver on reserve capacity. ISO New England imposed penalties of roughly $39 million on power plant operators for failing to provide reserves during a confluence of factors including extreme cold…
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Holiday Season Lights a Bright Spot Amid Pandemic's Resurgence
The holiday season is shining brightly during the pandemic as businesses pour money into extravagant light shows to spread cheer. From Maine to California, more lights shows have launched during the pandemic, and they’re more elaborate than ever, with sparkly spectacles that the comedic character Clark Griswold from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” could only dream about. “They’re exploding because...
