The office has 120 days to approve the rules, which would allow the state to go live and start accepting bets.
Local & State
Maine news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inLocal & State, Local Government, Morning Sentinel
Winslow police eye full staffing with new apprenticeship program to train officers
Town officials said the program comes after the police department has struggled to fill vacant positions for full-time officers.
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Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Maine House Democrat resigns to become county register of probate
Rep. Sean Paulhus, D-Bath, accepted an appointment to fill a vacancy as the Sagadahoc County Register of Probate.
Posted inLocal & State
‘He’s home now’: Mainer killed at Pearl Harbor to be buried 82 years later
Ensign Stanley Willis Allen of Bethel was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. His remains were identified 80 years later.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Nation & World, News
Endangered right whales’ decline worse than previously thought, regulators say
NOAA cautions that only about a third of right whale deaths are documented, so the total number of dead or injured animals could be much higher.
Posted inLocal & State
Driver, passenger injured when vehicle hits, kills moose in Jackman area
A cow moose was killed on impact when hit by a car on a road in Long Pond Township, officials said.
Posted inLocal & State, News, The Maine Forecast
Smoke from Canadian wildfires expected in Maine Monday and Tuesday
We’ve had a break from the Canadian wildfire smoke for a couple of weeks, but that’s about to change. The wildfires in western Canada are sending smoke into the Great Lakes to start the week. That ground-level smoke is set to move into New York and part of northern New England Monday afternoon. The national […]
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Police investigating long-unsolved Long Island killings search a storage facility
Suffolk County police confirmed that detectives executed a search warrant at Omega Self Storage related to the investigation that led to last week’s arrest of architect Rex Heuermann.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine postal history collection going up for auction
Collector Nancy Clark says it’s time to share her historical stamps and letters with a new generation.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Judge to weigh new DNA evidence in Dennis Dechaine case
An attorney for the man convicted of killing Sarah Cherry in 1988 is arguing for witness testimony and a crime scene reconstruction in his bid for a new trial.