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A Maine Wire reporter was involved in a potentially dangerous confrontation with a driver Thursday morning while reporting outside a Bangor methadone clinic. Reporter Joe Sokol was conducting reporting from public property near Bangor Comprehensive Treatment Center, also known as Discovery House BR Inc., at 689 Odlin Road when a driver confronted him and attempted to interfere with his work. Maine Wire video clearly captures the event.

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – William Bosworth became an internet sensation after video showed sheriff’s deputies pulling over the 85-year-old for allegedly driving 110 mph and racing another driver. Now 86, Bosworth is speaking publicly about his arrest, the viral attention, and how his life has changed since pleading no contest to the criminal charges. “It devastated me,” Bosworth said in an interview with News 6 Investigator Mike DeForest. “It’s funny, but it’s not funny. I know it’s serious.” Bosworth was taken into custody June 13 after Lake County deputies said they caught him racing a red Corvette on U.S. 27...

BELL COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - A Middlesboro woman faces a wanton endangerment charge after a neighbor reported finding a bullet hole in her shower and a stray round wrapped in a bathroom towel. According to an arrest citation, an apartment resident on Exeter Avenue reported to the Middlesboro Police Department Monday that she discovered a bullet hole in her shower and a bullet inside a towel in her bathroom. Officers responded to the neighboring apartment and spoke with Teresa Stout, 55. Police say Stout gave consent for officers to search the apartment and retrieve a small revolver from her bedside...

The first sign that Tennessee’s execution of Christa Pike had gone badly wrong came from Pike herself. She was strapped to a gurney inside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. The drugs had begun flowing. Reporters were watching from behind glass. Then Pike looked at her arm, smiled, and asked a question that left the witnesses rattled. According to WKRN anchor Tori Gessner, Pike said her arm felt like it was about to burst open. She then looked at one spot and asked, “Does this happen like that?” Her spiritual adviser told her to relax. Pike answered, “I’m trying.” It only got...

The doctor who oversaw Christa Pike's failed lethal injection also supervised another Tennessee death row inmate's botched execution in May. Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, was administered two syringes of pentobarbital at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville late Wednesday. But she was still alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and was rushed to a hospital by ambulance, her attorneys said. She remains hospitalized, but her legal team claims they have not been informed about her condition and no updates have been given. Her lawyers...

A federal judge issued an injunction blocking Connecticut from enforcing a ban on Glock pistols Wednesday. Glock and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) sued to block Connecticut’s ban on the manufacturer’s popular pistols, which Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed into law in May. United States District Judge Kari A. Dooley of the District of Connecticut, a Trump appointee, said that the state’s ban failed the test established by the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. “The Defendants offer no adequate explanation as to how the sale of a firearm manufactured on...

A major incident was averted on Wednesday when a pilot on a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv was stabbed by his co-pilot, triggering a rapid descent and an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Passengers and crew members intervened and restrained the accused pilot, while other pilots on board helped land the aircraft safely. Israeli officials have described the incident as an apparent attempt to crash the plane and kill those on board. The incident has nevertheless raised questions about a possible Iran connection, given the heightened tensions between Israel and Iran and concerns over potential attacks against Israelis. Here's what...

Hollywood just spent a fortune to tell you the fuel that heats your house, moves your food, and keeps the lights on is a moral crime. The audience looked at the trailer, looked at the ticket price, and stayed home. Tom Cruise’s climate sermon Digger opens Friday, and the early math says Warner Bros. is about to bury more than $100 million in a hole of its own digging. John Nolte at Breitbart called the thing what it is. A shrill, unsubtle, 129-minute attack on the people who dare to use oil to make a better life. Director Alejandro González...

Louis Geri will be spending the next five years and ten months in federal prison for threatening to detonate more than 100 improvised explosive devices on the steps of St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC. Is that enough time behind bars? Probably not. You see, this wasn’t just a normal bomb threat. On Monday, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed that the threat coincided with the annual Red Mass — a service often attended by Supreme Court justices and other senior government officials. Despite Geri’s high-profile targets, violent threats, and outrageous demands, Judge Randolph Moss granted a shorter sentence in response...

Rochester Regional Health officials are responding to recent claims by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Labor. In a post on social media, Anthony D'Esposito asked the healthcare system how many of its incoming class of residents are H-1B and J-1 visa holders. This is regarding a claim that only two of the 82 in the incoming class studied in America. The H-1B visa program allows employers to hire skilled foreign professionals, while the J-1 visa offers temporary, non-immigrant status for approved work and study exchange programs. RRH says it's focused on building its workforce in a time...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Synod commission proposes “complete revision” of canon law — including marriages without a priest. Vatican Synod commission proposes “complete revision” of canon law — including marriages without a priest.A 10-member Canonical Commission established as part of the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality has published today proposals to reshape canon law.The report says that in the long term there is an “obvious need for a complete revision” of the Codes. The goal is to reflect emerging “theological and ecclesiological issues.”Among the proposals:• Sensus fidei: Canon 749 would begin by stating that “the entire body of the Christian faithful… cannot...

The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in January, has filed federal civil lawsuits against the federal government, federal agents, and officials. “One lawsuit seeks to hold the United States liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for the actions of federal agents,” NBC News reports. The lawsuit alleges wrongful death, battery, assault, false imprisonment, emotional distress, and negligence. The second lawsuit names ICE officer Jonathan Ross, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and others, alleging a “conspiracy to interfere with...

NASHVILLE, TENN. (WSMV/WVLT/Gray News) - The doctor who oversaw Christa Gail Pike’s lethal injection was also involved in another botched execution earlier this year. Mark Fowler, the doctor who oversaw Pike’s botched execution, was also involved in the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers. His execution was abandoned in May after medical staff failed to establish IV access, a process that took more than an hour. That said, Tennessee did successfully execute an inmate in August. Anthony Darrell Hines was executed at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) said that Senate Democrats are blocking the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed the House 417-3, because of “politics that are coming into play.” And if it were up to him, he’d forget the politics and pass the bill.

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike will likely have brain damage after her botched execution, during which she chillingly lifted her head and asked if the pain she was feeling was normal. Pike, 50, was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after the Tennessee Department of Corrections administered two doses of the highly potent sedative, Pentobarbital, but it failed to kill her. The murderer, who was sentenced to death for the monstrous 1995 slaying of a classmate, was “being provided life-saving measures” in the hospital, her lawyers said – but she likely has a brain injury as a result. Emory University...

Russia said on Tuesday that a Tu-95 bomber crashed in one of its eastern regions. At least six crew members died during the crash, which occurred during training, per state media. The crash is a blow to Russia's nuclear bomber fleet, with Tu-95s now out of production. One of Russia's Tu-95 strategic bombers crashed during a training flight in the Amur region, killing six crew members, the country's defense ministry said on Tuesday. The plane was not carrying any ammunition, and a seventh crew member survived the initial crash and was hospitalized, the defense ministry added, per state media.

If you haven’t already heard about an Omani pilot’s attempt to crash a Dubai plane heading for Tel Aviv, you’ve missed a tale of complete evil, epic courage, and sheer luck that most would say could only have been dreamed up by a Hollywood script writer. It’s an amazing, “burning up the front page” story that honest news outlets should have been all over like white on rice

A 4-year-old Texas girl was shot and killed by her mother after the parent lost a custody battle, Lone Star State police say. The victim in the case has been identified as Vivian Savella, the family's attorney revealed in a statement on Tuesday. "Our family is devastated," the statement begins. "Vivian was four years old. She was loved without limit by her father, Aaron, and by everyone whose life she touched. There are no words for what has been taken from us." The mother has yet to be identified and is currently in the hospital after shooting herself, according to...

The U.S. can deport the leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque on the grounds that he is a threat to national security, an immigration judge ruled Wednesday. Salah Sarsour was detained in Milwaukee in March by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. A federal judge ordered Sarsour’s release in June, saying he raised a “substantial” claim that the Trump administration was targeting him for speaking out against Israel and advocating for Palestinian rights. Sarsour called the ruling “deeply disappointing,” but said he intends to appeal. “I will continue fighting to defend the right to free speech and to stay in the...

The Omani copilot who stabbed the pilot on the flydubai flight yesterday discussed killing Jews on social media, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel.The official adds that the attacker asked the Emirati crew members to kill him, citing conversations with passengers on the flight. “This was a person who was willing to commit suicide,” says the official. “His social media accounts [say] clearly that he has been radicalized into jihadist ideology. He talks about killing Jews.”“We can’t say for sure until the investigation’s over,” the official continues, “but it certainly seems like he was a suicide actor who...