QUOTE OF THE DAY
“It’s like pong meets foosball, and those are the two big selling points.”
— Gardiner Bryant, president of Unity-based Heavy Element, developer of the new vintage-arcade-style video game “Dudelings: Arcade Sportsball.”
TODAY’S TOP MAINE STORIES
Solar power ads on Facebook and Instagram are promising savings using Janet Mills’ face and fake incentives. Many solar incentives are available to Maine homeowners, but the ads from Energy Bill Cruncher paint a misleading picture.
A midcoast video game company’s first offering is a mix of Pong and foosball. “Even if you don’t dig the retro-style graphics, stay for the game itself,” one reviewer wrote of “Dudelings: Arcade Sportsball.”
Kamala Harris’ husband told Mainers how he heard Joe Biden was dropping out. Doug Emhoff recounted the moment at a fundraising stop in Falmouth ahead of Biden’s national address.
Police have no dash cam footage from the cruiser that was chasing a car before it crashed in Bangor this week killing the driver and a passenger.
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NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Angus King and Chellie Pingree skip Israeli leader’s speech before Congress
- Nation’s agriculture secretary to pledge funds for rural Maine
- Families of Lewiston shooting victims seek Pentagon probe after ‘conflicting’ investigations
- Maine will soon rule on the public benefit of expanding Juniper Ridge landfill
- Thousands of honey bees invaded the Washington County Sheriff’s Office
- Eliot Cutler officially can no longer practice law in Maine after child porn conviction
- Road project limits access to popular Hancock County hike
- New town manager appointed in Southwest Harbor
- Maine AG accuses Bath couple of racially harassing neighbors
- Ethics officials to probe flyers opposing midcoast housing proposal
- Driver seriously injured after deputy hits turning car in Brunswick
- Lewiston man gets 30 years for killing his girlfriend in 2022
- Car crashes into house in Auburn
- JetBlue adds nonstop flights to Orlando from Portland
- Mainer pleads guilty to assaulting police during Capitol riot
- Midcoast 8th-grader gets basketball offer from Boston College
- After back-to-back 2-9 seasons, UMaine football coach says 2024 will be different
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“The CDC should delay the rules and take the time to better tailor new restrictions to countries that actually pose a rabies risk.”
Editorial: CDC should pause new rules for bringing dogs to US
LIFE IN MAINE
Wabanaki tribes may soon be able to gather sweetgrass in Acadia National Park for traditional uses after more than a century of not being able to do so.
Last winter, a full 20 percent of Portland International Jetport travelers were going to Orlando, Florida. JetBlue is adding nonstop flights to the home of Walt Disney World this winter, becoming the fourth Portland carrier to do so.
Scores of movies and TV shows have been set in Maine. Here are nine you might not have known.