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January’s handle was Maine’s worst showing since launch 2.5 months ago, but in context, this isn’t really bad news for Maine specifically since most betting states are seeing a decrease in action last month as there are fewer football games.

Bettors wagered nearly $40 million in Maine during the first month online sports betting became legal, with the state's tribes, two vendors and state…

Maine.gov information relating to a recent cyber incident that occurred due to the exploitation of a vulnerability in a widely used file transfer tool, MOVEit.

The breach was detected in May but the state just started notifying people

Maine residents are being notified that their date of birth, drivers license number, social security number and health and medical information that may have been stolen during the hack.

The proposed rules are for games in which a player buys tickets, peels open tabs and hopes the symbols match up like a slot machine.

I doubt the gentle punishment handed out to Milt Champion, of Maine’s Gambling Control Unit, is going to change his thinking about women, people of color and white supremacists (“Maine sports betting official received 1-week suspension for offensive tweets,” July 8). The punishment is so light as to almost tacitly approve his hateful words. Only after […]

Maine’s top gambling regulator has been punished with a weeklong suspension without pay for tweets posted from his personal account about women and a white nationalist group. Milt Champion, executive

"While the two tweets were intended to be humorous, I recognize they were anything but," said Milt Champion, executive director of the Gambling Control Unit.

Milt Champion, the executive director of Maine's Gambling Control Unit, has been suspended for a week without pay over tweets made from a personal account.