Sources: The Hill
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
Maine reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant that originated in South Africa. 2021-03-4
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
Costa Rica reopens for traveling for Americans in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. 2020-08-20
The Cabinet of Germany proposes to ban conversion therapy for both transgender and gay people. The proposal was expanded to include people between the ages of 16 and 18. 2019-12-18
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 man goes on a shooting spree in Maine, U.S., killing two people and wounding three others in the towns of Lee and Benedicta. A manhunt is executed, and the suspect is arrested in Houlton. 2015-07-17
Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine announces that she will not seek re-election in 2012. 2012-02-28
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
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