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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It just seems like AIM is just hellbent on making sure this town doesn’t either have water to drink, or that if the water is there to drink, that it’s got crap in it.”

— Mayor Paul Bissonette after American Iron and Metal proposed reopening a landfill to accept mercury-contaminated material.

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Survivors of the 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston and family members of victims are suing the Army and a New York hospital . The lawsuit alleges military officials failed to heed warning signs about Robert Card II before he carried out the deadliest rampage in Maine history.

The dispute bet

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