Rep. Shelley Rudnicki of Fairfield had brought in a camera operator and an activist who questions the effectiveness of vaccines and suggests they could be used to implant microchips in people.
Carol Semple
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
Pfizer’s vaccine approved for children 12 and older
Shots could begin as soon as a federal vaccine advisory committee issues recommendations for using the 2-dose vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds, expected Wednesday.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Fryeburg Fair will welcome back people and animals this year, Oct. 3-10
It is Maine’s largest agricultural fair and typically draws about 225,000 people.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Fuel oil supplies on East Coast face disruption after pipeline cyberextortion attempt
The Colonial Pipeline transports gasoline and other fuel through 10 states from Texas to New Jersey, delivering roughly 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast, according to the company.
Posted inNation & World
Idaho school shooting is one of very few in which a girl is the suspect
Police are trying to determine why the 6th-grader pulled a handgun out of her backpack and shot 2 other students and an adult custodian before she was disarmed by a teacher.
Posted inFood & Dining, Nation & World
Republicans are pulling out the steaks as they turn culture war into a food fight
Already, in farm states, meat eating has joined abortion, gun control and transgender rights as an issue that quickly sends partisans to their corners.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Younger patients making Florida’s COVID hospital rates among highest in U.S.
The intensive care unit leader and pulmonologist at one public hospital said COVID patients are averaging between 30 and 50 years old, many of them healthy and without conditions such as obesity or diabetes.
Posted inNation & World
Jury convicts Alabama officer of murder in 2018 shooting of suicidal man
While prosecutors contend the officer killed William Parker without cause, the defense argued the shooting was justified because Parker posed a threat to the officers at the scene.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Some Republicans worry their new voting limits will hurt their voters, too
Changes to mail voting in Florida are certain to affect older voters, and thousands of Republican voters in Arizona could stop getting ballots in the mail automatically.
Posted inNation & World, New England
New cat named Nimbus settles in at Mount Washington Observatory
The observatory staff have had a cat at the 6,288-foot summit, called the ‘home of the world’s worst weather,’ since 1932.