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Around 250 asylum seekers, mostly from Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Haiti, have arrived in the city over the last year.
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Residents of the town of York in Maine voted to ban single-use plastic foodware in a special election on Saturday. York is the first town in Maine to pass such a ban on single-use plastic utensils.
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Yibin Zhao, 55, was at the home on Mercer Road. He was arrested and charged with Cultivation of Marijuana and Trafficking in Scheduled Drugs.
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Currently, veterans who need residential care for substance use disorder must go out of state to get it.
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Residents will vote Saturday on an ordinance drafted by high school students, local restaurants and environmental advocates.
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Bookings are already up 15% as the international CAT ferry service between Bar Harbor, Maine and Yarmouth, Novia Scotia begins another season.
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The conservative Cicero Institute is working with states to ban street camps, and shift money away from housing to addiction treatment. Homelessness advocates says such moves are counterproductive.
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McDonald says that earlier in his career, he tended to avoid writing about himself directly in songs. He opens up about his life and career in the memoir, What a Fool Believes.
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The seafood chain is in hot water after a series of bad choices by a parade of executives. Almost 580 restaurants will stay open, after dozens closed abruptly last week.
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The U.S. is hoping to extradite the WikiLeaks founder and try him for espionage. A court in London says Assange is free to appeal the extradition, the latest twist in years-long legal drama.
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One of the best albums of 2024, Diamond Jubilee, isn't on streaming services. The artist who released it, Cindy Lee, has rejected the streaming era's demands to create something entirely their own.
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