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Starbucks in Biddeford becomes 1st to unionize in Maine

July 15, 2022 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Starbucks workers in Biddeford have voted to unionize, becoming the first location to do so in Maine.

Workers said they were motivated to unionize after seeing coworkers leave because of problems including inconsistencies in scheduling and low pay.

Planned Parenthood to close 5 centers in north New England

May 13, 2022 GMT

COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) —

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England will close four health centers in Vermont and one in New Hampshire next month, while also expanding the days of operation at seven other centers in the region.

Starbucks in Maine is first in state to announce union plan

May 13, 2022 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Workers at a Starbucks store in Maine became the first in the state to announce their intent to unionize on Friday.

The six employees at the Biddeford store joined workers at dozens of Starbucks locations around the country who have sought to unionize.

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Amtrak train kills 2 people on tracks in Biddeford

May 8, 2022 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Two people were killed by an Amtrak train Sunday in the southern Maine town of Biddeford, police there confirmed.

An Amtrak spokesperson said the two people were trespassing on the tracks at around 11 a.m.

Plan to move Maine’s only medical school gets federal boost

April 8, 2022 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government is providing Maine's only medical school with $5 million to help it move.

University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine is located in Biddeford, but the university wants to move the school to Portland.

Jury sides with newspaper in police officer defamation case

April 6, 2022 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — A Maine jury has sided with a media company in a lawsuit over newspaper stories about sex abuse allegations involving a former police captain.

The case stemmed from articles that were published in the Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Courier seven years ago.

Maine math teacher is back at it on Pi Day

March 14, 2022 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — You may have heard through the grapevine that it’s Pi Day. That means a Maine teacher dubbed the “Pi Guy” is back at it.

Biddeford High School math teacher Jon Jacques always tries to make Pi Day fun through goofy antics, including musical parodies posted online.

Statue to mark drowning of Native American leader’s son

February 28, 2022 GMT

SACO, Maine (AP) — A local organization has won a grant to erect a proposed statue of a Native American leader, his wife and his son, who drowned as an infant when English settlers overturned their boat, according to a contemporary account.

Workers respond to derailed train carrying liquid propane

January 11, 2022 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — A hazardous materials team in Maine was monitoring an area on Tuesday where a train derailed that was carrying liquid propane.

Two cars in the train were carrying the propane, WGME-TV reported.

Parts of Maine cope with flooding after weekend storms

November 1, 2021 GMT

CAMDEN, Maine (AP) — Heavy flooding from weekend storms led to road damage and travel difficulty in some parts of Maine.

Hard rain hit the state over the weekend. Flooding was especially significant in the Midcoast part of the state, WMTW-TV reported.

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Landlord shot multiple times by tenant who was being evicted

September 17, 2021 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — A tenant charged with killing his landlord shot the man several time in the chest before returning to shoot him a final time in the head, leaving him to die on a porch, according to police.

Police: Tenant arrested in NH after landlord killed in Maine

September 15, 2021 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — A landlord who'd previously tried to evict a tenant was shot to death on the porch of the apartment house, and the tenant fled to New Hampshire where he was arrested, officials said Wednesday.

Black man inducted into Maine Franco-American Hall of Fame

September 7, 2021 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The late founder of The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center has become the first Black Mainer to be inducted in the state's Franco-American Hall of Fame.

Alain Jean Claude Nahimana, who died at age 49 last year, was one of three people to be inducted posthumously during the ceremony Tuesday at the Maine State House.

Grants awarded for farm robots, energy storage in Maine

August 30, 2021 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A pair of companies in Biddeford and Wiscasset have each received $250,000 grants through the Maine Clean Energy Innovation Challenge.

Farmhand Automation, in Biddeford, is developing batter-powered farming robots to help farmers transition away from gas- and diesel-powered equipment.

Electric buses get a boost in southern Maine transit system

June 24, 2021 GMT

OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (AP) — A transit system in southern Maine has received more than $1.2 million from the federal government to purchase chargers for electric buses.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins said Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Transit received the funding from the U.S.

Maine vaccine incentives: gift cards, baseball, fishing

May 11, 2021 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine is rolling out free fishing licenses, baseball tickets and L.L. Bean gift cards to encourage more residents to get vaccinated before the end of the month, Gov. Janet Mills announced Tuesday...

Former Maine corrections officer charged with sexual abuse

April 15, 2021 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A former Maine corrections officer turned himself in to investigators on Thursday after facing charges of sexually abusing a former inmate...

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Man sentenced to 10 years for racially motivated assaults

October 28, 2020 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Biddeford man convicted of violating a federal hate crime law with a pair of assaults on Black men was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday...

Maine US Senate candidate speaks out about tenure at Google

January 3, 2020 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Senate candidate vying for the seat held by Republican Susan Collins has spoken out about the human-rights concerns he had while serving as an executive at Google...

All hands on duck! Drivers stop for dozens of ducks

August 8, 2019 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Dozens of ducklings have made a bid to create the world's cutest traffic jam in a Maine city...

Hawk native to South America wows crowd in Maine park

By PATRICK WHITTLENovember 30, 2018 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A hawk that is native to Central and South America drew a lot of attention from Maine's birding community Friday after appearing in a park, where it brawled with a fellow raptor and dined on a squirrel...

Canadian crabs with bad attitude threaten coastal ecosystem

By DAVID SHARPSeptember 19, 2018 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Canadians are known as friendly folks, but these crabby brutes migrating from Canadian waters are better suited for the hockey rink...

George H.W. Bush released from Maine hospital

June 4, 2018 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush has left a Maine hospital after more than a week of treatment for low blood pressure and fatigue...

George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Maine

May 27, 2018 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush was hospitalized Sunday in Maine after he experienced low blood pressure and fatigue, a spokesman said...

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Letters describe slugger Ted Williams’ service in Korean War

By DAVID SHARPDecember 27, 2017 GMT

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Thirty-eight letters penned by Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams, including one in which he described crash-landing a fighter jet with "holes all over" it, are going up for auction...

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