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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Just like my kids, I don’t support every decision they make, but I always support them.”
— Karen Grace, of Searsport, who went to see Vice President JD Vance speak in Bangor on Thursday, on her support for President Donald Trump’s administration. She doesn’t agree with all of the administration’s decisions but said its handling of immigration outweighs her reservations about the war in Iran.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Vance used a trip to Bangor to criticize Gov. Janet Mills on alleged fraud and boost former Gov. Paul LePage in his congressional campaign. Maine Republicans at the event said they’re willing to give Trump time to solve his big political problem.
Inside the 45-minute struggle to reach a game warden’s fatal plane crash. The Bangor Daily News analyzed emergency radio transmissions, from the first automatic crash alert to the search for access to the remote site in western Maine.
A new independent urgent care clinic is set to open in Bangor this summer. Pine Tree Urgent Care is scheduled to open July 1 at 557 Hammond St.
More residences in southern Maine are becoming “luxury” homes. The state’s largest metropolitan area made a Realtor.com list of 12 U.S. cities seeing higher numbers of million dollar properties in the last year.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- The growing influence of the Maine church behind Portland’s Turning Point USA event
- Bernie Sanders is coming to Orono with Graham Platner and Troy Jackson
- Jared Golden says he would support reining in Trump’s Iran war powers
- Maine Democrats split over taxing 2nd homes in sharp debate exchange
- Research shows preapproved housing plans boost construction, but Maine’s program was left unfunded
- Bangor man gets 6 years in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking
- Brewer schools superintendent is retiring after 31-year career
- There will be a controlled burn in the UMaine forest next week
- Caribou strip mall owner says he hasn’t gotten ‘any notice’ of property violations
- 5 arrested in Caribou drug bust
- Woman dies in Aroostook County house fire
- Fisherman dies after rogue wave capsizes skiff off Down East coast
- Only a third of Maine Maritime Academy students graduate within 4 years
- What to know about getting around Acadia National Park this spring
- Popular midcoast Maine restaurant has been sold
- Inside the effort to restore ‘Big Jim,’ an icon of Maine’s bygone sardine industry
- Earthquake shook the ocean floor off midcoast Maine town
- Maine man allegedly hid in camper after skipping out on manslaughter sentencing
- 5 Maine kids charged with burglarizing vehicles
- Skowhegan tells church-run homeless shelter its residents have to go
- Portland considers 7-story building of tiny apartments
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Slurs on X involving the ‘R-word’ more than tripled after President Donald Trump used the slur in a Thanksgiving Day Truth Social post.”
Opinion: The ‘R-word’ is making a comeback. Maine is working to eliminate it.
LIFE IN MAINE
Enjoy these videos from last year’s Maine moose rut (you’ll want the sound on).
Pure wolves will likely never return to Maine.