Latest Maine Headlines
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Maine Lawmakers Advance Bill Regulating Corporate Use of Biometric Data
Mar 14 2022 // Maine is looking to enact tougher regulations about corporate collection of biometric data. The proposal before the Maine Legislature would require companies to get consent before they collect biometric information such as...
Long-Time Maine Insurance Regulator Cioppa to Retire April 1
Mar 11 2022 // After 33 years at the Maine Bureau of Insurance, including 10 as superintendent and 13 as deputy superintendent, Eric Cioppa will retire on April 1, 2022. Cioppa joined the insurance department in 1988 as a statistician...
Maine Ski Lift Accident Could Have Been Worse
Mar 8 2022 // A ski lift accident that sent a gondola falling to the ground at Sunday River Resort in western Maine could have been far more serious. There was only one occupant in the gondola, which has a capacity of eight riders, and...
Maine Farmers Want Ban on ‘Forever Chemical’ Sludge in Fields
Mar 3 2022 // Maine farmers want lawmakers to pass a bill banning fertilizer and compost containing wastewater sludge that’s been linked to toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions. Sometimes called...
Maine Mother Nears $10M Settlement Over Clinic Failure to Report Abuse
Mar 2 2022 // The federal government has agreed to pay $10 million to a Maine woman after a medical clinic failed to tell her or the state about signs that her son had been abused, according to court records. The agreement between the...
Maine Senate Advances Equal Rights Amendment
Feb 25 2022 // Maine’s Senate voted Wednesday to advance a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would prohibit discrimination based on gender, although it will require further votes. The 22-12 vote keeps the proposal...
Maine Eyes Additional Funding to Fight ‘Forever Chemicals’
Feb 22 2022 // Maine lawmakers are going to consider more funding to fight “forever chemicals” as more farms discover contamination. Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — known as PFAS — have been found in...
Man Found With Severed Arm Injured Himself, Maine Police Conclude
Feb 11 2022 // A man discovered stumbling downtown in Lewiston with a severed arm is believed to have inflicted the injury himself, police said. The victim was injured with a band saw used to cut meat, but didn’t work at the market...
Hospital Violated Maine’s Equal Pay Law, Judge Rules
Feb 11 2022 // A federal judge has ruled that a Maine hospital violated the state’s equal pay law by paying a female psychologist barely half the wage of her male colleagues. The judge ruled that Northern Light Acadia Hospital...
Maine Moves to Extend Workers’ Comp Mental Health Benefit for First Responders
Feb 9 2022 // A Maine legislative committee has signed off on a proposal to help emergency responders gain better access to mental health support. The proposal would continue a presumption that firefighters, emergency medical...
Maine Diocese Deems Abuse Allegations Against 2 Priests Credible
Feb 3 2022 // Complaints alleging that two priests sexually abused children in the 1950s and 1970s have been deemed credible by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland. One of the complaints focused on Renald Hallee, who served in Bangor...
Maine Finds ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Wells in Kittery Homes
Jan 28 2022 // Testing wells in a Maine town contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) and the chemicals may have traveled through well systems and drinking water, the state’s department of environmental protection found. Last month,...
OSHA Investigating Maine Case of Man Found Carrying Own Severed Arm
Jan 25 2022 // A man who stumbled along a street while carrying his own severed arm was saved by two public workers who saw him and happened to be trained in the use of tourniquets, authorities in Maine said. “It had to be divine...
Maine College Settles with Female Coaches on Pay, Treatment
Jan 24 2022 // Attorneys for a Maine college and five female athletics coaches said Friday they have reached a settlement stemming from a lawsuit over fair pay and working conditions. Lawyers representing Colby College and the coaches...
Federal Judge Divides Insurance Proceeds in Maine Fishing Boat Tragedy
Jan 7 2022 // A federal judge has divided almost $1 million in insurance proceeds between the families of four fishermen who died in 2020 when a fishing boat sank in high seas off the coast of Massachusetts. U.S. District Judge John...
Regulators to Investigate Claims Against Central Maine Power Parent in Suit
Dec 15 2021 // Maine utility regulators will investigate allegations raised in a lawsuit against the parent company of Central Maine Power. The investigation by the Maine Public Utilities Commission will focus on whether Avangrid’s...
Maine Roofing Contractor Found Not Guilty in Death of Worker
Dec 14 2021 // A jury has found that a roofing contractor in Maine is not guilty of workplace manslaughter for the 2018 death of a worker. The Portland Press Herald reports that the jury reached its verdict at the Cumberland County...
Jury Selection Begins in Trial Stemming from Workplace Death in Maine
Dec 3 2021 // Jury selection got underway Wednesday for the trial of a roofing contractor charged in the death of a worker who fell from a roof because of alleged unsafe working conditions. The trial of Michael Purvis was initially...
Ten Maine Communities Working Together to Prevent Flooding
Dec 2 2021 // Ten Maine coastal communities on Casco Bay are banding together in hopes of being able to help prevent future flooding. Over the next two years, the Casco Bay communities will invest a half million dollars on projects that...
Family of Man Killed by Snowblower Sues Two Maine Hospitals
Oct 29 2021 // The son of a man who died in a snowblower accident in 2017 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against both of Bangor’s hospitals and two medical professionals. Herbert Pelletier, 86, died four years ago of...
