A Maine man reportedly smashed his pickup truck through a Dunkin’ Donuts and Burger King on Thursday before fleeing the scene while allegedly high and was ultimately arrested following a second crash.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 against President Donald Trump (R) in a long-awaited decision concerning the tariffs he imposed on numerous countries last year.
Dissenting from this ruling were Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Samuel Alito. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy coney Barrett each issued concurring opinions.
A pugged-up sewer that virtually destroyed an elderly Saco woman’s home wasn’t her fault.
But city officials stuck her with a bill of nearly $30,000 to clean up the mess in the wake of the sewer backup.
The sad story of Elsie Boudreau’s heartache at the hands of city government was unearthed by CBS News 13 investigative team.
Boudreau told the news outlet she’s still trying to comprehend the mess she walked into late last year.
Raw sewage had backed up into the basement of her home.
Everything in her finished basement, from carpeting and paneling to furniture and family keepsakes, had to be torn out and thrown away.
“It was many things that bring back memories that are now gone,” Boudreau said. “It’s heartbreaking.”
In total, Boudreau says the cleanup alone cost more than $28,000. Her homeowners insurance covered part of the damage, but not all of it.
“It wasn’t caused by me,” Boudreau said. “The only thing it caused me was heartaches and sadness.”
Boudreau says she was later told a bath towel had blocked part of the sewer system on Franklin Street, a road near her home. Several surrounding houses were affected, though she says her damage was the worst.
City officials denied liability, claiming they had “no prior knowledge of the hazard.”
Their viewpoint apparently is ‘sounds like a personal problem – she’s got hers, we’ve got ours.’
The day before the one-year anniversary of the shootings, I learned of Ben Dyer and his story of survival and resilience. As President of the Lewiston Firefighters, the year following the shooting was occupied with ensuring all of our members who were present that evening were able to access whatever services they needed. As we approached the one-year anniversary, it was time for the department and those who responded to reclaim some sense of normalcy, as much as could be expected in light of the tragedy that unfolded for these 17 firefighters.
The Brewer Police Department arrested the same man three times in less than a week, beginning on Saturday when he allegedly tried to fight customers leaving a Wilson Street business.
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U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is receiving some unsolicited advice from a member of his own party – the mayor of Portland.
Mark Dion, during an appearance on Maine Wire TV, advised Platner to prove how is going to translate his rhetoric into governing.
“I get the speech but what happens after that?” Dion asked. “You know, how do you put together a governing package? I mean clearly he demonstrated a certain style of campaigning and it seems to resonate with a body of Mainers but I want to know about governing.
“I don’t need to hear the commercial. I want to know specifically what you plan on doing for the city of Portland.
Asked by Maine Wire reporter Jon Fetherston whether Platner is “more of a show horse than a workhorse,” Dion said, “I want him to convince me of that. It’s like the speeches are great – it takes more than a speech.”
The mayor was unable to explain to show host Tom Shattuck why he has yet to meet Platner.
“So far you’ve been snubbed by Graham Platner,” Shattuck said.
“Well, they say we’re going to talk – I haven’t seen it happen yet,” Dion said.
The top elected official in Maine’s largest city called on the governor of his own party – who badly defeated him eight years ago – to stop criticizing federal immigration-enforcement police.
Portland Mayor Mark Dion, appearing on Maine Wire TV, criticized Gov. Janet Mills for hyping up the politically-popular public rage against ICE officials in his democrat-socialist city.
“I don’t think it’s helpful,” Dion told Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson. “The job of a political leader is to keep everyone’s tempers down.”
A Vermont woman who placed an online Burger King order Thursday night realized too late she had actually ordered it from a Burger King in Maine.
So once she noticed her whopper, the woman, living in Burlington, Vermont, posted on a Facebook page “Just made a mistake and ordered bk in Bangor, Maine if anyone wants to pick it up.”
Burlington is 294 miles from Bangor so she figured the food would be cold by the time she got there LOL.
Once she offered it to anybody in Bangor who wanted it a second Facebook poster stepped in and helped out by publicizing the message on yet-another Bangor Facebook page to get the Vermont woman out of a pickle.
“There is a girl who posted this in Vermont,” Brittney Superneau Hartford of Lincoln, Maine said in the repost on Penobscot County Area Scanner Page. “She’s not in a group site, figured if someone was hungry they could grab it. She ordered BK in Bangor, Maine instead of Burlington,Vermont. She said someone is welcome to go get it. Figured I’d post it here for her.”
No extra jeez please on that Whopper. 🍔
New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani changed his mind on whether his administration would sweep homeless encampments — but only after 20 homeless people died amid winter weather.
