Border Patrol using more traffic stops, surveillance for arrests

Maine expands definition of domestic abuse. Maine joins nearly a dozen other states around the country that have added “coercive control” to their definition of domestic abuse in civil code. Click the image to read this Maine Monitor story by Yasmeen Khan.

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Maine’s Border Patrol agents are using more traffic stops, surveillance to make arrests | Portland Press Herald

How Maine churches are reckoning with fear of immigration raids | The Maine Monitor

A look at where traffic stops in Maine have led to Border Patrol arrests | Portland Press Herald

Maine public schools are starting to provide special education to preschoolers. Demand is high. | The Maine Monitor

Thousands of people moved to Maine since the pandemic. The influx isn’t over. | Portland Press Herald

Great white sharks head north, following seals and alarming beachgoers | Associated Press

Great white sharks are going north. Here’s what the numbers say | Associated Press (Maine Monitor context: Should Mainers be concerned by shark sightings?)

What's in the water? Unusual sights spotted along Maine coast | WMTW

$1 Million Powerball ticket sold in Maine | WMTW

“Water battery” proposed in western Maine | The Maine Monitor

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