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Kimberly Pushard, 51, and Angela Bussell, 50, from Midcoast, got stuck with their car in the snow in a remote area near Nicatous Lake in Hancock County, Maine

It's winter in the United States, and while that may mean something different in California than it does in, say, Maine, it's still cold. The Chicagoan in me hangs his head in shame as the 50-degree temperatures feel like a polar vortex to my now-tender skin.

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES Toddler Lily Norton, from Maine US, was on a play date with a friend when she was viciously mauled by a pit bull. She suffered wounds under her eyes and to the top of her throat

The Maine high school playoff game between Thornton Academy and Bonny Eagle had one of the most exciting finishes of the season.

Of the 192 officeholders currently occupying the top four executive positions in each state—governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and secretary of state—184 have a bachelor’s degree, 58 have a master’s degree, and 93 have a law degree. Nine such officeholders have a Ph.D., and one has a medical degree. Eight…

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Welcome to the Thursday, February 23, Brew. 

As of Feb. 21, 2023, five statewide measures have been certified for the ballot in three states for elections in 2023. That’s the same as the average number certified at this point in other odd-numbered years from 2011 to 2021. 

Northern New England and New York state will experience a big ice storm starting Thursday night and continuing into Friday

MICSA empowers Maine to block the applicability of virtually all federal Indian self-determination policies

Hundreds of the 574 federally recognized Indian nations in the U.S. now routinely provide their citizens with the full array of services customarily expected from state and local governments, from tax collection to environmental protection regulations. At the same time, many tribes are becoming the economic engines of their regions.