Dragon Products has been fined more than $360,000 since 2020 for mine safety and health violations.
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Maine news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine passes bill to curb recording of attorney-client phone calls in jails
The legislation, which still needs the governor’s signature, would require county jails to maintain a registry of attorney contact information.
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Joseph Gerry, longtime Catholic bishop of Portland, dies at 94
The longtime church leader, who served as Portland bishop for 15 years, died Sunday at a nursing care center in New Hampshire.
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Mills signs bill to protect Maine’s loon population from painted lead fishing tackle
Under the new law, retailers will be prohibited from selling painted lead fishing jigs beginning Sept. 1, 2024, while users will be banned from casting such tackle into state waters beginning Sept. 1, 2026.
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Massachusetts woman, 25, killed in ATV crash in Coplin Plantation
Officials: Abigail Divoll of Royalston, Massachusetts, was a passenger in a side-by-side ATV driven by Matthew Tolman, 26, of Hubbardston, Mass., who reportedly suffered a serious head injury.
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Rain delays the start of the summer rush for Maine’s seasonal businesses
Seafood and ice cream shacks, boat rides and baseball have all taken a hit from the unusually wet weather.
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Heavy June rains dampen outlook for Maine’s harvest later this year
The unusually wet start to the summer has affected crop production in many ways, including potentially endangering Maine farmland.
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In Unity, idea to house asylum seekers in dorms divides a town
Some say absorbing up to 600 new arrivals would be untenable, even though the community has welcomed as many college students for decades.
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Compassionate law or bad precedent? Children’s advocates, defense attorneys at odds over changes to rules of evidence in child sexual assault cases
A law passed recently by the Legislature will allow prosecutors to present as direct evidence at trial recorded interviews of alleged child victims of sex crimes instead of putting them on the witness stand.
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Dead whale found on the shore of Peaks Island
The Maine Marine Patrol identified the mammal discovered Saturday as a minke whale.