The arrests stemmed from 3 incidents last weekend even as the border is closed to nonessential traffic during the pandemic.
Carol Semple
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Biden, flush with cash, boosts ad spending in battlegrounds
President Trump’s campaign, meanwhile, has implemented recent belt-tightening measures and went dark on TV multiple times in August to conserve resources.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State
CARES Act to come to the aid of Maine’s rail line to Boston
Federal CARES Act money will pay for improvements to the passenger rail system that connects Maine to Boston
Posted inNation & World, New England
Navigational system for river planned for Kittery shipyard
The system is designed to provide real-time information on weather and waterway conditions.
Posted inNation & World
Western fires raise fight over climate change prior to Trump’s visit
The Democratic governors say the fires are a consequence of climate change, while the Trump administration has blamed poor forest management for the flames that have raced through the region.
Posted inNation & World
Perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear found in Arctic Russia
It was completely preserved in the permafrost, with its internal organs in place.
Posted inNation & World
Suspect in Oregon protest killing dies in hail of police gunfire
Michael Forest Reinoehl was believed to be the gunman who killed a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Ore., last week after a caravan of President Trump backers rode through downtown.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Massachusetts restaurant built in 1784, casualty of pandemic, to be razed
The inn was named in tribute to the Marquis de Lafayette, a French military officer who fought in the American Revolution.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Biden slams Trump over alleged comments mocking U.S. war dead
A report in The Atlantic, dismissed by the president as a ‘fake story,’ opens a new political vulnerability for the incumbent less than two months from Election Day.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Federal officials sign off on Maine’s plans for production of hemp
The state’s hemp program now includes 110 outdoor licenses and 362 licensed acres of planted hemp, as well as seven indoor grower licenses, the agriculture department said.