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35325# 20251231_01hoops AUGUSTA, MAINE DECEMBER 31, 2025 Spruce Mountain’s Maddie Grimaldi, center, disrupts the shot of Maranacook’s Alice Ferran during the Capital City Hoops Classic at the Augusta Civic Center in Augusta, Maine Wednesday December 31, 2025. Backing up the play is Spruce Mountain’s Zoe Groomes, left. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) " data-image-caption="Spruce Mountain’s Maddie Grimaldi challenges a shot by Maranacook’s Alice Ferran. Grimaldi returned from ACL surgery in December. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) " data-medium-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/43328520_20251231_02hoops.jpg?w=233" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/43328520_20251231_02hoops.jpg?w=780" />A backcourt duo is on the mend at Spruce Mountain, Thornton Academy is on a winning streak, and big matchups lie ahead in Class A North.

Mikaela Marmion, of Biddeford, becomes emotional during a protest where hundreds of people gathered in Monument Square in tribute to the Minneapolis woman who was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this week on Saturday, January 10, 2026. “I’m distraught that we are at a point where people can be killed in front of our eyes and the people who are supposed to be to leading us won’t even express human compassion for their death,” Marmion said. “That is unthinkable and I don’t understand what is happening. An investigation should be a no brainer.” (Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer) " data-image-caption="Mikaela Marmion, of Biddeford, becomes emotional during a protest in Portland to honor to the Minneapolis woman who was killed this month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “I’m distraught that we are at a point where people can be killed in front of our eyes and the people who are supposed to be to leading us won’t even express human compassion for their death,” Marmion said. “That is unthinkable, and I don’t understand what is happening. An investigation should be a no-brainer.” (Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer) " data-medium-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/43362493_20260109_PortlandIceProtest_07.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/43362493_20260109_PortlandIceProtest_07.jpg?w=780" />Liam LaFountain urged residents to look out for one another amid looming concerns of increased action by federal immigration agents.

The baby's father, Shawn Samuels, was arrested on a murder charge after the baby's death was ruled a homicide.

Rescue personnel on the scene of a bus crash in Standish where a student was killed on Northeast Rd. Tuesday, December 16, 2025. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer) " data-image-caption="Rescue personnel on the scene of a bus crash in Standish where a student was killed on Northeast Rd. Tuesday, December 16, 2025. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer) " data-medium-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/12/43325500_20251216_BusCrash2568.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/12/43325500_20251216_BusCrash2568.jpg?w=780" />The governor is proposing $4.3 million for enhanced bus safety measures and has signed an executive order to create a commission to look at how else the state might improve transportation safety.

FILE – A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge at the immigration court at Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York, on Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File) " data-medium-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/ICE-Call_Center_41729_020edc.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/ICE-Call_Center_41729_020edc.jpg?w=780" />We are actively reporting on anyone detained by federal immigration agents in Maine.