After Maine police announced an arrest in the cold case murder of a teenage girl in 1984, a former reporter who saw the victim shortly before she died is speaking out. Linda Maxwell, 18, was last seen on August 23, 1984, the Maine State Police said in a statement. She had spent the evening with…
The Trump administration has abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the United States pay their heating and cooling bills. The firings threaten to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which was created by Congress in 1981 and helps to offset high utility bills…
Sebago, Maine — You know you’re in Maine when the pancakes come hot off a 100-year-old wood stove. But drill into Alan Greene’s eighth-generation maple syrup operation in the town of Sebago, and you’ll find it doesn’t run as smoothly as it used to. “The last 10 years, we are definitely becoming warmer earlier,” said…
How climate change is threatening the maple syrup industry – CBS News Watch CBS News Winter turning to spring marks the sweet season for maple syrup production. But climate change is threatening the $1.5 billion industry. David Schechter explains. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting….
A total lunar eclipse will occur for all of North America Thursday night. What You Need To Know A total lunar eclipse will take place Thursday night into Friday morning All of North America will have the chance to see it The last total lunar eclipse on Earth was in 2022 A total lunar eclipse…
DETROIT — At the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, a quote from former President Ronald Reagan is engraved on one wall. “Let the 5,000-mile border between Canada and the United States stand as a symbol for the future,” Reagan said upon signing a 1988 free trade pact with America’s northern neighbor. “Let it forever be not…
SCARBOROUGH — The U.S. lobster industry’s catch keeps sliding as fishermen contend with the northward migration of the valuable crustaceans. The industry is based mostly in Maine, where lobsters are both a cultural signifier and the backbone of the coastal economy. The state’s haul of lobsters has declined every year from 2021, when it was…
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is threatening to sue the state of Maine over the state allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s sports at public schools and universities. In a Feb. 25 letter to Gov. Janet Mills, Bondi said Maine’s policy violates Title IX of the federal Educational Amendments Act of 1972. …
After Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, challenged President Trump during a White House meeting, she became both a folk hero to her party and a political target whose state now faces a federal investigation by the Department of Education. Ms. Mills, 77, told Mr. Trump on Friday that she would not accede to…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Harsh cold descended on the nation’s midsection Monday as a polar vortex gripped the Rockies and Northern Plains on the heels of weekend storms that pummeled the Eastern U.S. with floods, killing at least 14 people. What You Need To Know The National Weather Service is warning of life-threatening cold Extreme cold warnings have been…