The U.S. government used an obscure public health law to justify one of its most aggressive border crackdowns ever. People fleeing violence and poverty to seek refuge in the U.S. are whisked to the nearest border crossing and returned to Mexico without a chance to apply for asylum. Read More
The inspirational portraits of super-old survivors are a counterpoint to news of large numbers of deaths among elderly people living in Italian nursing homes and other assisted-living facilities. Read More
Central Maine Healthcare, which has hospitals in Lewiston, Rumford and Bridgton, is furloughing about 330 of its approximately 3,200 employees, and top executives are taking a paycut, as it scales back elective procedures and postpones appointments amid the coronavirus pandemic. Read More
Thirteen people caring for patients described how they’re feeling and what they’re seeing on the ground. “We are all expecting to get sick once the wave hits,” said one nurse. Read More
Instead, uninfected hospital patients who need low-level care but are not ready to return home would receive treatment there, freeing up hospital beds. Read More
As schools grapple with the logistics of remote teaching, food deliveries to students, contingency plans if teachers fall sick, and how to adapt special education services and summer programming, it could be easy to forget the little-discussed issue of teachers’ own emotional health. Read More
Northern Light has not set a target for how much it hopes to save through voluntary furloughs. The system has also said it prefers that many of them continue working. Read More
Maine reported its first coronavirus case on March 12. Two days later, Robin’s Table was closed and Adams let her five employees go. Now, she’s leaving it up to fate whether her vision for a homestyle vegan restaurant in Biddeford will be fully realized. Read More
As public health officials warn millions of Americans to stay home amid the spread of COVID-19, many victims of domestic violence are living their worst nightmare trapped inside with their abusers. Read More
Many of the opinions issued while she was on the court were routine matters that upheld lower courts’ opinions. But once in a while, they had a lasting impact on the state. Read More
The only Maine company listed on the S&P 500 Index is temporarily cutting employee salaries due to losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Read More
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The LEAP Inc. maintenance supervisor credited with hustling his coworkers out of the nonprofit organization’s building before it blew up last September will come home this week, according to a Wednesday statement from the family. Read More
Democratic lawmakers and community leaders in cities hard-hit by the pandemic have been sounding the alarm over what they see as a disturbing trend of the virus killing African Americans at a higher rate, along with a lack of overall information about the race of victims as the nation's death toll mounts. Read More
Even as coronavirus deaths mount across Europe and New York, the U.S. and other countries are starting to contemplate an exit strategy and thinking about a staggered and carefully calibrated easing of the restrictions designed to curb the scourge. Read More
The Burton snowboard company is donating 500,000 respirator masks to hospitals across the Northeast, harnessing the company's worldwide footprint to help put a dent in the country's lagging stockpile of personal protective equipment for the coronavirus pandemic. Read More
Maine expected to get 15 rapid coronavirus testing machines to more quickly assess patients, but on Wednesday it received a "much smaller" number of the machines, health officials said. Read More
Leigh I. Saufley, chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, will take the reins of Maine's only law school next week, after nearly 20 years as head of the state’s court system. Read More
Maine’s top public health official on Wednesday answered the key question on the minds of businesspeople: When will they be able to start operating again? Read More
Citing a large volume of feedback on the subject, the Bar Harbor Town Council on Tuesday canceled all scheduled cruise ship visits through the end of June. Read More
