"Lewiston Strong" took off in the days following the tragedy and continues to inspire,reports CBS Portland, Maine affiliate WGME-TV. The Maine People's Alliance has kept up its "Lewiston Strong" sign, a constant reminder that's led to contemplation. "What does it mean anyway and what com...
In Maine, where the breeding population of great cormorants is small and efforts to save them are underway, the bald eagles are a problem, said Chris DeSorbo, director of the raptor program at the Biodiversity Research Institute in Portland. Critically endangered species and beloved animals at r...
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Large swaths of the downtowns of America’s large cities—New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland—are becoming unhygienic, unsafe, and uninhabitable. Substantial corridors swarm with the homeless. Crime is increasing but commensurately redefined as a sort of...
PORTLAND, Maine --The most expensive destroyer ever built for the Navy suffered an engineering problem in the Panama Canal and had to be towed to port. U.S. Third Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Ryan Perry said a vice admiral directed theUSS Zumwaltto remain at ex-Naval Station Rodman in Panama to...
PORTLAND, MaineDrivers may have gotten a chuckle out of an electronic message board in Maine warning of zombies, but city officials were not amused. The sign at a Portland road construction site was changed by a hacker to read "Warning Zombies Ahead!" on Wednesday morning. It originally read...
PORTLAND, Maine --Summer is getting longer in the waters off New England, and that could have big ramifications for everything from the strength of storms to the health of fisheries and endangered whales, according to scientists. The scientists, led by Andrew Thomas of the University of Maine...
Numerous schools in the area are closed, according to CBS affiliate WGME-TV, including in Portland, Maine. In the Thursday morning news conference, Lewiston Police Chief David St. Pierre asked that "the public to continue to be mindful of their own personal safety." ...
PORTLAND, Maine - In the face of industry pressure, the federal government is spending up to $4.4 million to complete a plan to help Maine's blueberry industry by buying surplus crop. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in April it would buy up to $13 million in wild blueberries ...
PORTLAND, Maine --An Appalachian Trail hiker who died after getting lost in the woods of Maine did the right thing by setting up camp to wait for help, officials say. But the guidance for what to do after a week without being rescued would have evolved, they said.Rita Hennessy from ...