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Janet Mills

Maine is giving nearly all of its workers up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave—starting in 2026

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

FILE – A postal worker empties a box near the Fiserv Forum on Aug. 18, 2020, in Milwaukee. The U.S. Postal Service is replacing tens of thousands of antiquated keys used by postal carriers and installing thousands of high-security collection boxes to stop a surge in robberies and mail thefts, officials said Friday, Friday, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

The US Postal Service is installing thousands of high security collection boxes to stop a surge in mail robberies

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

Custodian and chess coach David Bishop challenges 6th-grader Owen Isenhour during after-school practice, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in Hampden, Maine. Under Bishop’s tutelage, the Reeds Brook Middle School chess team has gained national recognition. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

A school custodian in Maine is coaching grade school students to chess victory in a plot that echoes the ‘Queen’s Gambit’ Netflix show

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

A United States Postal Service (USPS) worker outside a USPS distribution center in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. FedEx, UPS, Amazon.com and the U.S. Postal Service are busy hiring temporary and part-time workers ahead of the peak season, which will start to ramp up in November. Competition will be fierce for labor in and out of the parcel industry. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Postal workers are ‘outraged and angered’ by a 78% rise in robberies that target them, often at gunpoint

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

FILE – Heavy machinery is used to cut trees to widen an existing Central Maine Power power line corridor to make way for new utility poles, April 26, 2021, near Bingham, Maine. Attorneys will deliver opening statements Monday, April 10, 2023, in a trial that’ll determine whether whether a $1 billion electric transmission corridor is built. The power line would bring Canadian hydropower to the New England grid. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

The fate of a $1 billion project that would bring energy from Canada to the US is in the hands of a 9-person jury: ‘This is an unusual circumstance’

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

Peter Starostecki, Sadie Starostecki, Jo Jo Starostecki

Mainers are fighting for their right to keep vulgar license plates: ‘People are so sensitive nowadays’

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

FILE – President Donald Trump’s name is seen on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, on April 23, 2020, in San Antonio. The IRS announced Friday. Feb. 10, 2023, that most relief checks issued by states last year aren’t subject to federal taxes, providing 11th hour guidance as tax returns start to pour in. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Most relief checks issued by states last year are not subject to federal taxes, says IRS after delay

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

A man breaks up ice and sleet on his driveway during a winter storm in Concord, New Hampshire

New England is bracing for a brutal cold snap and temperatures could get as low as -50 degrees with windchill: ‘In these conditions, frostbite can develop in as little as 30 minutes’

By Ken Miller, David Sharp, and others

A man carrying a Christmas tree as a woman walks behind him

Personal Finance

Inflation is no match for Christmas trees as Americans refuse to give up the holiday staple

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

Woman holding cash in front of heating radiator

‘The crisis is coming’: Heating bills will jump 28% this winter for nearly half of U.S. households

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

FILE – This handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launching from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, in Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The department is working in collaboration with industry and academia to field hypersonic war-fighting capabilities. (Luke Lamborn/U.S. Navy via AP)

Ukraine war is backdrop in U.S. push for hypersonic weapons

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

A worker carries a large parcel at the United States Postal Service sorting and processing facility, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Boston. The U.S Postal Service pulled out all the stops to avoid a repeat of the 2020 holiday shipping disaster, and it worked. The Postal Service and several other private shippers reported that holiday season deliveries went smoothly, for the most part.

U.S. Postal Service pulled off holiday season recovery plan

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

ISLESFORD, ME- APRIL 28: A road is illuminated by a street light on Thursday April 28, 2016 in Islesford, ME. Islesford is located on Little Cranberry Island, which is home to many lobstermen. China has become a large market for Maine lobster. (Photo by Matt McClain/ The Washington Post via Getty Images)

By elephant, camel and drone: how COVID vaccines are reaching the most remote reaches of the planet

By David Sharp and The Associated Press

A cafe in Clarkston, Ga., part of the non-profit Friends of Refugees, provides educational opportunities, job placement services, and emotional support for immigrants. By some estimates, half the town’s population is from outside the U.S.

Trump’s Refugee Resettlement Order Could Harm Businesses

By Julie Watson, David Sharp, and others