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Advocates say key diagnostic services for children will be harder to obtain, placing the blame for the cuts on the Mills administration.

About 85 people, many of them holding signs, gathered Saturday on Morse Bridge.

Maine is the only state in the country that doesn't mandate testing for mold, yeast, chemicals or heavy metal in its medical marijuana. The state's medical growers are fighting to keep it that way.

Cliche served as an assistant coach for last 2 seasons under Sean Green, who resigned in March.

Attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C., argue that the president doesn't have the authority to unilaterally shut down the permitting process, as he did with an executive order on his first day back in office.

The latest lawsuit against the Trump administration by Maine and 18 other states asks the courts to reverse staffing and program cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Nearly 190,000 borrowers in Maine hold a collective $6.5 billion in student loan debt that the federal government is now taking steps to collect by garnishing tax returns and Social Security benefits, among other possible moves.

Ariana Tito, 19, pleaded guilty to shooting Kayla Grant, of Saco, in November 2023, a day after her brother was accused of shooting her boyfriend.

Similar climate superfunds in Vermont and New York, which impose fees on fossil fuel extractors and crude oiler refiners for greenhouse emissions, are being challenged in court by the Trump administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The summit, a response to President Donald Trump's aggressive stance on U.S.-Canada relations, would be held in Boston at a date to be determined.