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Three people, including the perpetrator, are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting when a 29-year-old man shoots his mother and at passing cars in Sabattus, Maine, United States.
2025-04-3

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

The Madras High Court orders "strict action" to be taken against individuals that promote conversion therapy, and issues guidelines to the police, education institutes, and the judiciary on how to address LGBT issues and individuals.
2021-06-7

Maine reports its first two cases of the B.1.1.7 variant first detected in the United Kingdom in a person from Franklin County who previously travelled internationally.
2021-02-10

Maine reports 127 new infections on Election Day, its single day record since the pandemic began.
2020-11-3

Heavy snowfall blankets much of the north-eastern United States. More than 1 foot of snowfall is reported widely, with up to 2 feet recorded in parts of Maine and Vermont.
2020-02-7

The Maine health department confirms a horse in York County has tested positive for the rare, deadly, potentially transferable to humans, mosquito-borne viral disease Eastern equine encephalitis. Earlier this week, an infected 14-year-old Michigan girl was hospitalized in serious condition, and Ohio officials confirmed an Ashtabula County horse also tested positive. Neither of the horses were vaccinated against EEE.
2019-08-31

Ted Cruz wins the Republican Party caucus in Kansas and Maine.
2016-03-5

A truck going from Florida to Maine carrying about 1.5 to 2 million bees crashes.
2014-05-20

The United States National Weather Service issues a blizzard warning for nine states in the Midwestern United States with a storm affecting a total of 30 states from Texas to Maine.
2011-02-1