Sources: The Hill
A bill to criminalize the widely discredited practice of conversion therapy passes the Senate in Canada without opposition, one week after it passed the House of Commons without opposition; the bill now awaits royal assent to become law. 2021-12-7
Maine reports 127 new infections on Election Day, its single day record since the pandemic began. 2020-11-3
A 63-year-old woman is killed in a great white shark attack near Bailey Island, off the coast of Maine, United States. It is the first ever fatal shark attack on record in Maine, and only the second attack ever recorded in the state. 2020-07-28
The governors of the U.S. states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin say they will not accept Syrian refugees in response to the Islamic terror attacks in Paris. Twenty-three of the 24 governors are Republican with the other being Democrat (New Hampshire). 2015-11-16
A truck going from Florida to Maine carrying about 1.5 to 2 million bees crashes.2014-05-20
Heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions hit the northeastern United States days after a bad storm with between 15 and 17 inches of snow reported in Massachusetts and Maine. 2014-02-16
California becomes the first U.S. state to forbid "conversion therapy" for minors, effective January 1st, 2013. 2012-10-1
Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine announces that she will not seek re-election in 2012. 2012-02-28