MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 14 September 2023 Updated: 22:02 BST, 14 September 2023 MUST READS Twenty years ago, Lucy Barton and her husband, William, divorced after a 20-year marriage. LUCY BY THE SEA by Elizabeth Strout (Penguin £9.99, 304pp) Twenty years ago, Lucy Barton and her husband, …
Multiple small towns across America have chosen to disband their police units in recent years due to a staffing and budgeting crisis. This shortage can be attributed to a combination of factors, including the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the widespread criticism of law enforcement following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis …
Multiple small towns across America have recently disbanded their police units due to staffing and budgeting challenges. This shortage of officers has been linked to the “two-fold morale hit of 2020” – the COVID-19 pandemic and the criticism of law enforcement that followed the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The resulting …
Two schools in Maine, Mill Pond and Hodgdon Middle/High School, located in Aroostook county, will implement a temporary ban on drinking from the fountain due to elevated levels of PFAS chemicals in the drinking supply. As a precautionary measure, hundreds of students will be provided with bottled water until the installation of a filtration system …
A dire situation involving PFAS contamination in school drinking water has prompted numerous classrooms across the country to make the switch to bottled water. In Aroostook County, Maine, the school year will begin with a prohibition on water fountains until at least late November due to recent tests revealing the presence of PFAS chemicals. Cumberland …
Owning a cat with a record-breaking feature may seem like an extraordinary occurrence, but for one family in the US, it has become a pattern. Meet Altair, a five-year-old silver Maine Coone from Michigan, who holds the title for the longest tail of any domestic cat alive, measuring an incredible 16.07 inches. This surpasses the …
An 86-year-old man from Maine has been found guilty of assuming his brother’s identity many years ago and using it to fraudulently receive Social Security benefits. The accused, Napoleon Gonzalez of Etna, adopted his deceased brother’s identity in 1965, a quarter-century after his brother’s death as an infant. He used this stolen identity to unlawfully …
An 86-year-old man from Bangor, Maine has been convicted of multiple charges after assuming his deceased brother’s identity to fraudulently obtain Social Security benefits. The breakthrough in the case came from facial recognition technology that detected the same face associated with two different identities, leading to the man’s arrest. Napoleon Gonzalez of Etna took on …
Childhood vaping has reached such high levels in schools across America that vapor detectors are now being installed in bathrooms. Approximately 2.6 million high school students are vaping, and they have become adept at discreetly sneaking devices into class, causing distractions and exposing nearby children to second-hand effects. In response, schools like Lewiston in Maine, …
An elderly woman in Maine demonstrated remarkable bravery when she successfully defended herself against an intruder who broke into her home. Not only did she fend him off, but she also showed kindness by providing him with a meal before he fled. Marjorie Perkins, an 87-year-old resident of Brunswick, woke up to find a young …