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Indian police arrest 74 Rohingya refugees, including ten minors.
2023-07-24

Greece bans the practice of conversion therapy for minors as well as all advertisements promoting it.
2022-05-11

Maine reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.617 variant that originated in India.
2021-05-16

Maine reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil.
2021-03-26

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

Maine votes to expand Medicaid under Obamacare in the first ever referendum on the issue.
2017-11-7

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

Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine announces that she will not seek re-election in 2012.
2012-02-28

A massive rainstorm, formed from the combination of the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole and a second extratropical low, drenches the East Coast of the United States from North Carolina to Maine. [http:--www.aolnews.com-story-storms-drench-much-of-the-east-coast-5-1303729?cid=10 (AOL)] [http:--www.wmbfnews.com-story-13243500-rain-pounds-nc-as-storm-moves-up-the-east-coast (AP via WMBF)]date=August 2019
2010-10-1