Orion Krause is sentenced to life in prison for the 2017 beating deaths of his mother and grandparents and his grandparents’ home health aide in Groton, Mass.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine Cannabis Report, New England
Cannabis company to pay $300,000 over payroll violations
Theory Wellness failed to properly pay Massachusetts employees who worked Sunday and holiday shifts.
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Posted inNation & World, New England, News, Politics
How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
The House has passed a bill to extend to five years the deadline for the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children to submit its report to the federal government on federal programs and policies that involve American Indian children.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, New England
Concern about endangered whales cited in lawsuit over wind farm
In response, a group that represents renewable energy companies stressed the project has undergone a lengthy environmental review, permitting and public comment process.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, New England
Cleanup begins in soggy Northeast as Henri plods back to sea
The storm system deluged areas from New Hampshire to New York City and down to New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, New England, News
Maine battens down for a weakened Henri
The storm likely will bring torrential rain to the state beginning Sunday, but not the full force of the hurricane.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, New England, News
New England in line for its 1st hurricane in 30 years with Henri
The hurricane watch stretched from New York’s Long Island to Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, New England, News
U.S. keeps ban on nonessential border crossings with Canada, Mexico
Canada recently began letting fully vaccinated U.S. citizens enter the country but the U.S. has extended its ban until Sept. 21.
Posted inNew England, Uncategorized
30 years after last hurricane, Maine and New England brace for Tropical Storm Henri
It’s exactly 30 years since a hurricane last made a direct hit on New England — and now the region is bracing for the possibility of another.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Schoolchildren lead effort to pardon wrongly convicted Salem ‘witch’
Twenty people from Massachusetts were killed and hundreds of others accused during a frenzy that began in 1692, stoked by superstition, fear of disease and strangers, scapegoating and petty jealousies.