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The health issues associated with mold include respiratory problems that can develop rapidly.
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Despite the death last year of the city’s long-secret Valentine, Kevin Fahrman, who organized the annual effort to paper downtown storefronts and buildings with red hearts every Feb. 14, it happened again.
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Even as fewer teens are being prosecuted, the state is not providing enough intervention, rehabilitation and other help.
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The University of Southern Maine is giving a small nod to the fact that it sits on unceded Wabanaki land, funding a wall-sized mural created by Maine Mi’kmaq artist and alumna Marissa Joly.
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Over the past decade, all but one of the 34 Maine firefighters who submitted cancer claims saw their employers oppose their request for benefits, according to the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board. The initial denials required firefighters to sometimes wait many months before their claims were ultimately determined to be valid.
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Reade Brower, the owner of 30 Maine newspapers including the Portland Press Herald, is considering selling the papers or converting them to another ownership model, he told staff on Thursday.
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The ad started running last week and shows the peril of entering the political arena.
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Nearly 2 1/2 years after adult-use cannabis sales began in Maine, regulators here have cited no stores for selling to minors and are just developing plans for the kinds of random checks regularly conducted at alcohol retailers.
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These debates have pitted parents against each other and even led to some accusing school officials without evidence of “grooming” children, corroding a fraught relationship between parents and schools lingering from the COVID-19 pandemic. In the crossfire are a small number of transgender and gender non-conforming students.
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The man who was arrested says the officer got the wrong guy. The disagreement was at the center of a three-hour hearing at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta on Wednesday, in an unusual case of alleged mistaken identity that has invoked broader issues of race and policing.