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Haven’t filed your taxes yet? Here are some last-minute tips
4Apr By adminNo Comments
Money

Haven’t filed your taxes yet? Here are some last-minute tips

Haven't filed your taxes yet? Here are some last-minute tips - CBS News Watch CBS News Americans have until April 15 to file their taxes or file an extension. If you live in Maine or Massachusetts, you have until April 17. An expert offers some last-minute tips if you still have to file. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On
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Maine State Official Who Removed Trump From Ballot Was Targeted In Swatting Call At Her Home
31Dec By adminNo Comments
Politics

Maine State Official Who Removed Trump From Ballot Was Targeted In Swatting Call At Her Home

A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause.She becomes the latest elected politician to become a target of swatting, which involves making a prank phone call to emergency services with the intent that a large first responder presence, including SWAT teams, will show up at a residence.Bellows was not home when the swatting call was made, and responding officers found nothing suspicious.While no motive for the swatting attempt was released by the Maine Department of Public Safety, Bellows said she had no doubts it stemmed from her decision to remove Trump f...
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Maine Casts Its Ballot for Trump
30Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

Maine Casts Its Ballot for Trump

This week’s huge in-kind contribution to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is from Maine secretary of state Shenna Bellows, who announced Thursday that she will unilaterally delete Mr. Trump’s name from the presidential primary ballot. Maine is now the second state, after Colorado, to declare him a Jan. 6 insurrectionist under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Paging the U.S. Supreme Court, alas.Ms. Bellows’s administrative ruling largely tracks the opinion last week from the Colorado Supreme Court, except she blows through all the knotty legal questions in a breezy 34 pages. Section 3 was passed after the Civil War to stop Confederates who “engaged in insurrection” from retaking government posts. Applying it to Mr. Trump and the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, involves a series of dubious legal p...
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Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot
29Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot

Updated Dec. 28, 2023 8:06 pm ETMaine’s top election official on Thursday barred Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot, marking the second state to knock the Republican former president off its ballot and escalating a national legal effort to disqualify him from office.In a 34-page written decision, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, said Trump isn’t qualified to hold office because of his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Mega Millions winner sues mother of child for blabbing about jackpot
16Nov By adminNo Comments
Health

Mega Millions winner sues mother of child for blabbing about jackpot

A recent Mega Millions winner is suing the mother of his child, alleging she violated a nondisclosure agreement when she told his parents about his $1.35 billion jackpot. The Maine man, identified in a lawsuit filed Tuesday as John Doe, beat the stupendous odds and claimed the Mega Millions prize — the fourth largest in the lotto’s history — back in January. He purchased the ticket at Hometown Gas & Grill in Lebanon and opted to cash out with a lump-sum payment of $723,564,144, or nearly $500 million after taxes. According to the lawsuit, initially obtained by the Daily Beast on Wednesday, John Doe learned that his mother’s daughter, listed as “Sarah Smith” in court documents, spilled the beans during “one or more telephone communications” with his father and stepmom back in September...
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Maine Lawmaker Looked at His AR-15 Differently After Lewiston Massacre
10Nov By adminNo Comments
World

Maine Lawmaker Looked at His AR-15 Differently After Lewiston Massacre

Updated Nov. 10, 2023 1:28 pm ETListen to article(1 minute)WASHINGTON—The AR-15 was Jared Golden’s weapon of choice for self-defense. He knew how lethal the gun was, and how easy to use, from his days serving as a Marine, and he kept one in his home in Lewiston, Maine. He was confident it would keep him safe.Then last month, a gunman used a weapon much like that one to kill 18 people and wound more than a dozen not more than a five-minute jog from the Democratic U.S. representative’s home.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Maine Election: Voters Decide Power Companies’ Future With Ballot Measure
4Nov By adminNo Comments
World

Maine Election: Voters Decide Power Companies’ Future With Ballot Measure

Maine’s voters will decide Tuesday whether to take a rare step: a hostile takeover of their biggest electric companies. A measure on the ballot there would create a consumer-owned replacement called “Pine Tree Power” by buying out two investor-owned companies that currently serve nearly all Mainers. Proponents, which include some environmental groups, politicians and a nursing union, say wresting control from the for-profit companies will eventually lead to lower bills, better customer service and a speedier shift to renewable power. Utilities and Maine’s governor say takeover would saddle the state with debt. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Dire Warnings About Maine Shooter Robert Card Didn’t Stop His Rampage
31Oct By adminNo Comments
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Dire Warnings About Maine Shooter Robert Card Didn’t Stop His Rampage

Updated Oct. 31, 2023 7:01 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)BATH, Maine—In the months before Robert Card carried out Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, those around him feared he was sinking deeper into a dangerous mental health crisis.He told his family he had been hearing voices, prompting them to contact police about the many guns he had access to. His Army Reserve commanders ordered him to spend time in a New York hospital after having a paranoid episode during a training trip there. A firearms dealer refused to sell Card a silencer after he disclosed his psychiatric troubles.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Army Reserve Commander, Family Warned Police About Maine Gunman
31Oct By adminNo Comments
World

Army Reserve Commander, Family Warned Police About Maine Gunman

BATH, Maine—The gunman in the recent mass shootings in Maine threatened last month to “shoot up the drill center” where his Army reserves unit is based, according to records released late Monday by a local sheriff.Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry also said deputies from his department spoke several times with concerned family members of suspect Robert Card, 40, in the months before he killed 18 people in a shooting rampage last week.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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