Edward Tomic is a reporter for The Maine Wire based in Southern Maine. He grew up near Boston, Massachusetts and is a graduate of Boston University. He can be reached at [email protected]
Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for...
By Greg Yates The criminal case People v Gosselin took place in a little red house structure known as the “Town of Highland Justice Court” located in Sullivan County, New York. This little red structure is also known as the Barryville Town Hall, where court is...
An illegal alien was among two New York-based individuals who were arrested in Auburn on Thursday in connection to a spree of retail thefts across Maine. According to Auburn Police, at about 11:20 a.m. on Thursday, officers located a vehicle on Washington Street that was being sought in connection to several organized retail thefts around
Three illegal aliens from the People’s Republic of China are currently being held in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Maine’s Cumberland County Jail. Fengqing Qu, 43, Huiguang Qu, 45 and Yuying Qiu, 47, were all booked at the Cumberland County Jail on Wednesday, March 19. [RELATED: ICE Reveals New Details
Portland Public Schools Superintendent Ryan Scallon on Tuesday doubled down on the district’s commitment to “equity” and to continue allowing transgender-identifying boys to participate in girls’ sports, comparing the controversial political climate surrounding the issue to the civil rights and women’s suffrage movements. In a nearly 20-minute speech to the school board during their Tuesday
Three Dominican nationals were arrested Wednesday morning and charged in connection to an alleged conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in Nashua, N.H., acting U.S. Attorney Jay McCormack announced. Elizardo Escaria Delison, 32, Belisario Luis Delison, 49, and Rayddy Delison De Aza, 28, all of the Dominican Republic, were each charged with one count of
On Tuesday, Portland Police took three suspects into custody accused of displaying handguns and making threats against an individual at a mosque on Forest Avenue. Police say they responded to the Cumberland Islamic Center at 1844 Forest Avenue shortly after 9 p.m. on Tuesday for a weapons possession call. [RELATED: Shooting Outside Lewiston Mosque Disrupts
The City of Portland and Maine taxpayers will be footing a nearly $4.5 million annual bill for operating a 179-bed shelter for single asylum-seeking migrants after the nonprofit organization that was contracted to take over services at the shelter dropped out due to lack of funding. The migrant shelter, located at 166 Riverside Industrial Parkway and
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Friday announced that they have awarded the first border wall construction contract of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, and will spend just over $70 million for the construction of seven miles of new border wall in Hidalgo County, Texas. CBP says that the $70,285,846 contract with
A Portland man accused of throwing a rock through the window of a motor vehicle was arrested on Sunday and found in possession of a stolen firearm and over 11 grams of cocaine, police announced Monday. Portland Police say they responded to the area of Chestnut and Oxford Streets shortly after 12 p.m. on Sunday
A service provider for the state’s Office of MaineCare Services left several expletive-ridden voicemails for a Republican state senator early Friday morning after he voted against the Maine Democrats’ $120 million MaineCare bailout plan on Thursday. On Thursday afternoon, the emergency spending bill sponsored by Rep. Drew Gattine (D-Westbrook) on behalf of the governor meant
A political science professor at the University of Maine (UMaine) sent out a recruitment flyer for the UMaine Orono Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a left-wing activist group that describes themselves as “anti-ICE” and hopes to turn the public university into a “sanctuary school” for illegal aliens. Robert Glover, a UMaine associate professor of
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that they will be repurposing the Biden administration’s “CBP One” phone application, which was used to facilitate the entry of migrants into the U.S. along the southern border, into a portal that illegal aliens can use to report that they will be self-deporting from the country.
Maine State Police are investigating the death of a Massachusetts man who was found deceased from a gunshot wound at a residence in Palmyra in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, the Somerset County Regional Communications Center received a 911 call reporting a shooting at 531 Madawaska Rd. in
Dr. Nirav Shah, former head of the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), will be joining the faculty of Colby College this fall to teach courses on public health, the liberal arts college announced on Thursday. Shah, who served as head of the Maine CDC from 2019 to 2023 and was Maine’s
The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office announced on Wednesday that following a multi-day search they have arrested a suspect accused of crashing his vehicle into ski lift gates and the slopes at Sunday River Resort in Newry. Deputies responded to Sunday River at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 9, to investigate a report of an aggravated
The City of Portland will be saddled with providing services at the city’s 179-bed shelter for single asylum-seeking migrants after the immigrant advocacy nonprofit that was originally going to take over services at the shelter was unable to secure sufficient funding. [RELATED: Portland’s $4.6M, 179-Bed Shelter for Migrants Slated to Open Later This Month…] The
Cumberland Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of a man accused of orchestrating a sophisticated online fraud scheme targeting a local Maine resident. In a joint operation with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI, on March 10, Cumberland Police arrested Zhangqi Xie, 44, for of theft by deception, a Class B offense punishable
The Maine State Police and Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday announced that they have concluded the investigation into the deaths a mother and daughter who were found dead in Farmington in late December of 2023. On the morning of Dec. 27, 2023, 76-year-old Jean Robinson and her daughter, 53-year-old Allison “Joy” Cumming, both of Farmington
During remarks on the Senate floor on Tuesday, U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins (R) claimed it was a “myth” that European countries have not done their fair share to provide aid to Ukraine in their war with Russia. Sen. Collins’ remarks come as the Trump administration lifted a pause on intelligence sharing and security
The Lewiston Police Department on Tuesday issued an update on their investigation into a shooting that occurred outside of a mosque Friday evening, stating that both the victim who suffered a gunshot wound and the members of the mosque have been uncooperative with police. Police responded to Masjidu Salaam Mosque at 243 Bartlett St. in
An amendment to Governor Janet Mills’ $120 million supplemental budget request passed the Senate on Tuesday afternoon that would place modest limits on the state’s ballooning General Assistance program in exchange for exempting temporary and emergency shelters. General Assistance is a taxpayer-funded welfare program administered on the municipal level in Maine that provides the poor