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The Maine Legislature is getting involved in a dispute over which county can claim a string of coastal islands.

The full House and Senate are expected to attend an in-person session at the State House today, one of only two session days set for January..

Maine's nonpartisan Revenue Forecast Committee cautioned the Legislature about volatility in long-term revenue forecasting.

They are likely to be uphill battles for the independent, a 69-year-old from Friendship who has already announced he does not plan to run again.

Numbers have been dropping since Tuesday.

SHARE TEXAS — Condemnation of anti-Asian violence and discrimination continues in the aftermath of a deadly shooting spree in Atlanta that killed 8 people, including 6 women of Asian descent — Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Ae Yue, Xiaojie Tan and Daoyou Feng. One Korean American woman said that pronouncing their names correctly is the bare minimum when it comes to honoring their memories, and that remembering as well as pronouncing Asian names correctly is jus...

Budget Crunch for Texas HIV Drug Program Creates Crisis of Confidence By Sabra Ayres Texas SHARE TEXAS — After decades of running smoothly as one of the state’s lesser-known success stories in the Dept. of State Health Services, the Texas HIV Medication Program hit a major snag in its operation to supply life-saving HIV drugs in December.  In a memo addressed to the program’s advisory committ...

Texas Boxing Promotor Offers a Life Beyond Boxing By Jose Arredondo Texas SHARE SAN ANTONIO — Pro boxer Daniel Baez remembers when his life spiraled downhill. “I really had nothing. I didn’t have nothing. I just had no fights. I had no job,” Baez says. This was the end result of bad management with an old boxing promotion, but those days are behind him because he signed with Davies Entertain...

Curtis Morgan, the CEO of Vistra Corp., at table left, testifies as the Committees on State Affairs and Energy Resources holds a joint public hearing to consider the factors that led to statewide electrical blackouts, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Austin, Texas. The hearings were the first in Texas since a blackout that was one of the worst in U.S. history, leaving more than 4 million customers without power and heat in subfreezing temperatures. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ERCOT and Energy Le...

Spectrum News spoke to Dr. James Cutrell, an infectious disease expert at UT Southwestern in Dallas.