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State lawmakers had attempted to push back the referendum until 2026 to allow a special commission to come up with an alternative design. But the bill to delay the vote fell victim to late-session tensions with Gov. Janet Mills.
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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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King introduced similar legislation two years ago that would have added roughly 42,000 acres to the existing monument. The latest proposal would add just 2,500 acres, just enough to better connect the monument with Millinocket.
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Somerset County and Piscataquis County Sheriffs took down operations in Canaan, Milo and Brownville.
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The farm would produce up to 10 million metric tons of salmon each year on the site of the former Great Northern Paper Mill.
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Museum officials say the plan would require demolishing the former's Children's Museum next door. But preservation advocates say the structure at 142 Free Street has historic significance and must be protected.
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At the height of the racial reckoning, a school district in Virginia voted to rename two schools that had been previously named for Confederate generals. This month, that decision was reversed.
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Students arrested at Columbia University and the City College of New York spoke with NPR about their choice to risk legal and academic consequences.
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Ian Roberts has competed in some of the most high-profile races in the world. But his biggest competition to date was a determined fifth-grader in jean shorts and Nike tennis shoes.
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As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to thousands after deadly storms, it will do so under a smog warning and as all of southern Texas starts to feel the heat.
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On Friday, CNN published footage that appears to show the hip-hop mogul, also known as P. Diddy, physically assaulting his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
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