Once implicated in insider trading, Boesky cooperated with a brash young U.S. attorney named Rudolph Giuliani in a bid for leniency.
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8 Maine communities will share $22 million in federal cleanup grants
The state will receive another $11 million to support 4 already existing state programs that assist with so-called .
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Scarlett Johansson says a ChatGPT voice is ‘eerily similar’ to hers and OpenAI is halting its use
Johansson issued a statement saying OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked her if she would lend her voice to the system, but she declined.
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Top Democrat calls for Biden to replace FDIC chairman to fix agency’s ‘toxic culture’
Sen. Sherrod Brown, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, says the agency is broken and there must be ‘fundamental changes at the FDIC.’
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, News
Sour Patch Kids Oreos? Peeps Pepsi? What’s behind the weird flavors popping up on store shelves
Surprising flavor combinations are showing up more frequently in grocery stores and restaurants.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Hartland Historical Society buys its first-ever home
The Hartland Historical Society purchased the Fuller Mansion on Friday after a rigorous fundraising campaign, and plans to place all of its items being stored around town there and turn the second floor into a research and education center.
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Weeks Mills Road in Farmington closed Wednesday for culvert replacement
Osborne Road will be accessible, but traffic coming from New Sharon will be detoured to Bailey Hill Road.
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$19 million in Maine pandemic relief checks never got cashed
The Mills administration said Monday that 40,000, or 2%, of the 2.3 million checks issued by the state over a 3-year period have not been cashed and are now being treated as unclaimed property.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
One killed, 2 injured in Monday morning collision in Winslow
Dominic Reid, 21, of Waterville was killed in the head-on collision at about 5:30 a.m. Monday, police say.
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Investigators return to Long Island home of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect
Rex Heuermann, 60, is charged with killing Megan Waterman, of Scarborough, and 3 other women. They were among the 11 people whose remains were found on Long Island in 2010 and 2011.