The practical implications of the ruling are unclear because the Senate impeachment trial over the president’s interactions with Ukraine ended weeks ago in an acquittal.
Carol Semple
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
As labs ramp up, who can get tested in U.S. for coronavirus?
Priority goes to people with fever, cough and other flu-like symptoms and who have had close contact with someone confirmed to have the virus or those who traveled to an outbreak area outside the U.S.
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Posted inBusiness, New England
First recreational pot shop in a major East Coast city opens
Pure Oasis opens in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, chosen under a provision of the state’s law designed to help groups who were harmed by the war on drugs.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, Sports
Man charged in death of former UMaine football player
Zaire Williams, who played 1 season for Maine, was shot and killed in Philadelphia this month.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Q&A: What’s causing the oil market meltdown?
Oil prices are plunging after Saudi Arabia started a price war with Russia.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Plea hearing set for Bowdoinham teen charged in grandmother’s death
Dominic Sylvester was 16 when his grandmother and guardian, Beulah ‘Marie’ Sylvester, 55, was found unconscious in the mobile home they shared.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Coronavirus hits milestone, infecting over 100,000 worldwide
The illness, which has killed more than 3,400 people and emerged in over 90 countries, edged into more U.S. states on Friday.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Plan to improve broadband in rural Maine gets Senate approval
The Maine House will next consider a proposal to try to expand broadband coverage in rural parts of the state.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Inside the dizzying 3 days that remade the Democratic primary
The win of former Vice President Joe Biden in the South Carolina Democratic primary set off a cascade of events that carried him to a consolidation of support for Super Tuesday.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Regulators shoot down plan by Canadian company to buy Emera Maine
A Maine regulatory commission has rejected a proposal from a Canadian company to buy one of the most important utilities in the state