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Good morning. It’s going to feel downright balmy today, with highs expected to peak in the 70s. If you live on outer Essex Street and in neighborhoods along the Broadway corridor in Bangor, good news: The Bangor Water District lifted its boil water order this morning.
‘He lived for her’: Wife of man killed by ICE in Maine speaks of the father he was and wanted to be
In her first public remarks since her husband was shot to death by a federal immigration agent on Monday, Martha Karolina Rojas Alvarez spoke despairingly of losing Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero and generously about his love for his 3-year-old daughter, who he called his “gordita.”
“The dream he held closest was being a dad,” Rojas Alvarez said at a press conference Thursday before describing the love the three of them shared and their dreams that were just coming into focus. “Now my daughter asks for Papa, and I don’t have the strength to tell her that Papa isn’t coming,” she said.
The identity of the ICE agent who killed Duran Guerrero became known Thursday after his ex-wife told the Portland Press Herald that he called her shortly after the shooting “unusually calm” and asked her to “lie for him” and to “cover for his character.”
David Brouillette has struggled with mental health problems and has a “history of terrifying and violent behavior,” according to several close relatives who spoke to The Associated Press.
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“Our Founding Fathers intended that all should receive a bouquet of beautiful rights: freedom and justice for all. Yet through no fault of their own, many have thistles and cannot hold those rights.”
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