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Maine embarks on healing after mass killing suspect found dead

by Jake Bleiberg Associated Press, Patrick Whittle Associated Press, Holly Ramer Associated Press, and David Sharp Associated PressOctober 28, 2023

LEWISTON, Maine — Police teams had already searched a recycling center in Maine twice before eventually finding the body of the man suspected of killing 18 people, authorities said Saturday.Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck…

FILE - This undated image provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible. The U.S. Coast Guard says the missing submersible imploded near the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people on board. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP, File)

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Coast Guard: Titan sub imploded near Titanic, killing 5 on board

by Patrick Whittle Associated Press, and Holly Ramer Associated PressJune 22, 2023

FILE - Clam digger Scott Lavers paddles his canoe on his way to work on a mudflat exposed by the receding tide, in this Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, file photo in Freeport, Maine. Warming waters and invasive species are threatening a way of life for many in the country's seafood industry. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Fishermen face shutdowns as warming hurts species

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressOctober 27, 2022

FILE - Former Boston Red Sox player Jerry Remy, wearing an oxygen tube, throws a ceremonial first pitch to former Red Sox pitcher Dennis Eckersley before an American League Wild Card baseball game against the New York Yankees at Fenway Park, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Boston. Remy, a Boston Red Sox second baseman who went on to become a local icon as a television broadcaster, died of cancer on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. He was 68. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Jerry Remy, Boston Red Sox player and broadcaster, dies at 68

by Howard Ulman Associated Press, and Patrick Whittle Associated PressOctober 31, 2021

FILE - In this March 25, 2020, file photo, a worker weighs and sorts pollack at the Portland Fish Exchange in Portland, Maine. The coronavirus pandemic has hurt the U.S. seafood industry due to a precipitous fall in imports and exports and a drop in catch of some species. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

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Seafood consumption down

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressNovember 23, 2020

A 724-pound bull moose with an antler spread of 56.5 inches is inspected by a hunter at a weigh station in Kokadjo, Maine, in October 2006. Maine hunters might be allowed to harvest more of the state’s iconic land mammal this year because of strong survival rates in the northern parts of the state.

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A little hope for moose in northern US

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressMarch 22, 2018

A Monkfish dwarfs other fish being are offered for sale at a market in Portland, Maine, on Sept. 9, 2016. Members of the fishing industry, regulators and environmentalists are trying to convince U.S. consumers in 2018 to eat more of the particularly weird-looking fish.

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Ugly delicacy? Industry touts weird-looking Monkfish, encourages people to eat more of them

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressMarch 2, 2018