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We have plenty of gun laws already on the books, as these arrests demonstrate.

According to a recent study reported in the Ecology and Evolution journal, the American lobsters may be more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than previously believed. These species support the most precious fishery in North America. Maura Niemisto, a research associate at Bigelow Laboratory in East Boothbay Maine, prepares a lobster sample in the lab. Niemisto is the lead author of a recent paper showing the effects of ocean warming and ocean acidification on postlarval lobsters. ...

 A team of researchers from the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay and Maine Department of Marine Resources in West Boothbay Harbor recently published their research on the effects of ocean warming and acidification on gene expression in the earliest life stages of the American lobster. The work was published in the scientific journal Ecology and Evolution with collaborators from the University of Prince Edward Island a...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Angelo Leo, right, seen here against Tramaine Williams in August, suffered the first loss of his career on Saturday, when Stephen Fulton Jr. beat him to win the WBO super bantamweight title. (Amanda Westcott/Showtime) If Angelo Leo had another gear, an alternate path that might have led to victory, h...

Stephen Fulton outfights Angelo Leo to take the WBO super-bantamweight title HEADING into his WBO super-bantamweight title tilt against Stephen Fulton was a slick and skilful boxer. Now, everyone knows that he can fight too. Instead of boxing from range and keeping his distance, as people expected him to, Fulton chose to engage with Leo on the inside, which made for entertaining viewing. The tenacious 26-year-olds combined to throw almost 2,000 punches across 12 lively rounds, with Fulton hims...

WBO Junior Featherweight World Championship – 12 Rounds Angelo Leo – 121 ½ lbs. Stephen Fulton, Jr. – 122 lbs. Referee: David Fields (N.J.); Judges: Frank Lombardi (Conn.), Waleska Roldan (N.Y.), Steve Weisfeld (New Jersey), Interim WBA Super Bantamweight Title – 12 Rounds Ra’eese Aleem – 121 ½ lbs. Victor Pasillas – 122 lbs. Lightweight Bout – 12 Rounds Avery Sparrow – 136 lbs. Referee: Johnny Callas (Conn.); Judges: Tom Carusone (Conn.), Waleska Roldan (N.Y.), Steve Weisfe...

Wormtown Brewery plans larger taproom next door, add distillery Brewery plans larger taproom next door, moves to add distillery Matthew Tota Correspondent When Wormtown Brewery’s Shrewsbury Street taproom opened on St. Patrick’s Day 2015, it carried an aura of coolness and originality that captured the essence the city’s first brewery in decades. Sure, the taproom was small — but by design. Examining an early drawing of the taproom two years earlier, co-founder Ben Roesch and managing p...

Law targets plastic trash in ocean   ELLSWORTH  —  Legislation aimed at reducing plastic ocean debris, which was co-sponsored by Maine’s two U.S. senators, was signed into law this month.  The bipartisan Save Our Seas 2.0 Act was introduced in June to tackle the problem of plastic waste on a global scale by spurring innovation and international cooperation. The legislation builds on the Save Our Seas Act, which was signed into law in October 2018 and reauthorized NOAA’s M...

>> i think human rights is something we should be talking about with north korea and we should be talking about it in conjunction with other nations. i think theres no reason to use incendiary rhetoric against the north korea yaesans, but theres no point in discussing the things they do which is absolutely reprehensible. including the way they treat political prisoners and the way they use poverty and underdevelopment as a weapon to maintain themselves in power in the north. i think all of those...

Pyongyang officials have promised. lets discuss with david fields, associate director at the center for east asian studies. david, good morning to you. thanks for joining us. i dont want to ask you the obvious question of, hey, you know, what gift do you think is going to come on christmas day or christmas week from kim jong-un, but you rightly point out that we should be focussing on all the gifts that president trump has given the regime and thus have weakened the u.s. position. tell us more a...