They are seizing on the nation’s reckoning with racial injustice to insist equity be considered in a range of bills.
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How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
Among other legislation, the House passed the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, to require the Labor Department to make a new occupational safety and health standard for preventing workplace violence in the health care and social services sectors.
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Vermont officials warn foragers of poisonous plant lookalike
Vermont officials are warning people who like to forage in the state for wild leeks, or ramps, to beware of a poisonous lookalike plant.
Posted inNew England
Arrested New Hampshire youth center workers described as ‘hit squad’
Eleven men have been arrested this month as part of an ongoing investigation into the Youth Development Center in Manchester.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Massachusetts man charged with having garbage bags full of pot
The Fall River man allegedly assaulted staff at a Boston restaurant and crashed his car into another vehicle as he drove away.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Connecticut racial equity meeting interrupted with racist slurs, images
Police are trying to find out who interrupted a video conference meeting of a racial equity task force with racist epithets and images of enslaved people.
Posted inBusiness, New England
Bill seeks to end labeling of plant-based products as ‘milk’
The House measure asks the Food and Drug Administration to enforce its regulations that define milk and cream.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, New England, News
FBI warns of telephone scammers, posing as federal agents, who bilked 44 Mainers
The agency’s Boston Division says it’s seeing an increase in reports about scammers targeting residents of Maine and other New England states through unsolicited, often spoofed, phone calls.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Names of 6 New Hampshire troopers involved in fatal shooting released
Six state troopers discharged their weapons during a fatal police shooting in Claremont last month.
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Footage led police to Maine man charged with hate crimes in Massachusetts church arson
The Houlton resident was arrested in Massachusetts after a series of fires at the Martin Luther King Jr. Presbyterian Community Church in Springfield in December.