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• Bangor Police Arrest Local Man Following Sequential Spree of Vehicle Vandalism and Grand Theft Auto

  Published: Apr 24, 2026

  Section: Crime

  A 52 year old Bangor resident, Robert Burt, was taken into custody Thursday after allegedly attacking a car with a hand tool and later stealing a different vehicle from a local com...

• Maine Governor Janet Mills Signs Law Prohibiting Sweepstakes Casinos and Restricting Credit Card Usage

  Published: Apr 8, 2026

  Section: Online Gambling

  Governor Janet Mills has enacted LD 2007, making Maine the second state in 2026 to officially ban online sweepstakes gambling platforms. The new legislation introduces heavy financ...

• Legislative Momentum Builds Across United States as Multiple States Move to Ban Sweepstakes Casinos and Prediction Markets

  Published: Mar 27, 2026

  Section: Politics

  Lawmakers in Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota have advanced significant legislation this week aimed at prohibiting unregulated sweepstakes casinos and prediction market platforms. Th...

• Portland Mother and Three Children Released Following Four Months in Federal Immigration Detention

  Published: Mar 19, 2026

  Section: Immigration Policy

  Carine Balenda Mbizi and her three teenage children have been released from an ICE detention facility in Texas and have returned to Portland, Maine. The Congolese family, who had b...

• Maine Man Found Guilty of Depraved Indifference Murder in Tragic Christmas Day Death of Three Year Old Girl

  Published: Mar 4, 2026

  Section: Crime

  A jury has convicted Tyler Witham-Jordan of murder in the 2022 death of his girlfriend’s daughter, Makinzlee Handrahan. Prosecutors successfully argued that Witham-Jordan, while su...