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Robert F. Bukaty/AP fileSecretary of State Shenna Bellows has turned over the investigation into absentee ballots that were improperly delivered to a Newburgh resident last September to the state attorney general's office. -
Troy R. Bennett/BDNSeveral former residents of the South Portland facility testified before the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee Monday about the need to offer young offenders more community-based services as a path toward rehabilitation.
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Advocates say striking a single word from the statutory language in the Fund to Address Food Security and Provide Nutrition Incentives would provide protection and flexibility. -
In Portland, hundreds of people holding cardboard signs and candles converged on Portland's Monument Square to express outrage and grief over Renee Nicole Good's killing at the hands of ICE agents in Minneapolis. -
The independent also said he was appalled by Trump administration's suggestions that the U.S. could use the military to take control of the arctic territory. -
The largely symbolic vote follows Collins' opposition in November to a resolution that would have required the president to seek congressional authorization to use military force in Venezuela. The Republican has expressed support for the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but she says she does not back long-term military involvement. -
While Democrats highlighted a suite of bills that they say will lower costs for Mainers, Republicans focused most of their press conference on allegations of fraud by a MaineCare provider. -
Mason was first elected to the Maine Legislature as a 25-year-old during the 2010 Republican wave election and eventually became the Republican Senate majority leader. Along the way, he won a lot of support from Maine's evangelical conservatives, voters he hoped would deliver him the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2018 and who could be crucial to his latest Blaine House bid. -
Maine U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner drew yet another packed crowd to a town hall Tuesday night in South Portland, but this one had a different focus than usual: It called for taxing the rich to fund health care. -
Iman Osman listed his address as a condemned building undergoing renovation during his campaign. Concerns have been raised over whether he was legally allowed to call it his permanent residence.
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Analysis of the political races and candidates in the news, and what political issues will affect Mainers in the year ahead -
The capture of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces has sent political shockwaves around the world and drawn protests, but many in the Venezuelan diaspora have celebrated the move.
