Mills says she will let the bills die because she believes lawmakers lacked the legal authority to enact them on Friday and is concerned that signing them will lead to litigation and uncertainty.
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Augusta fire extinguished after neighbor sees smoke
Renovations at the two-unit vacant apartment building on Kendall Street were close to being completed, according to a fire official.
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Winslow school budget rejected by the town council will go to voters in June
After voting down the school budget earlier this month, the town council approved a resolution putting it on next month’s ballot — regardless of whether or not officials can revise it in time for the election.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Robert Card’s family to testify before Lewiston commission
Family members of the Lewiston gunman and an official from the Army Reserve’s psychological health program will testify Thursday in front of the commission investigating the mass shooting.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Body found in mud flats near former B&M Baked Beans plant in Portland
A passerby reported the body near the former B&M building late Tuesday morning.
Posted inCommunity News, Local & State
Section of Bailey Hill Road in Farmington to close Thursday for culvert replacement
The section between Davis and Osborne roads will be closed from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Posted inNation & World
8 dead, at least 40 injured as farmworkers’ bus overturns in central Florida
It wasn’t immediately clear if the workers are migrants, but a Department of Labor document shows the farm the bus was heading to recently applied for 43 H-2A workers to harvest watermelons.
Posted inFood & Dining, Nation & World
There’s bird flu in U.S. dairy cows. Raw milk drinkers aren’t deterred.
The FDA and the U.S. CDC call raw milk one of the ‘riskiest’ foods people can consume.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Michael Cohen provides inside knowledge, admits his own lies, in Trump hush money trial
Donald Trump is joined at the courthouse by an entourage of Republican lawmakers that included House Speaker Mike Johnson and others considered vice presidential contenders for Trump’s 2024 campaign.
Posted inNation & World
Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds
Some 700,000 Palestinians – a majority of the prewar population – fled or were driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s establishment.