Border Patrol Seizes Drugs, Cash in Abandoned Vehicle Near Checkpoint in Maine

Border Patrol Seizes Drugs, Cash in Abandoned Vehicle Near Checkpoint in Maine

U.S. Border Patrol agents found 146 grams of methamphetamine, about 90 grams of an unidentified white powder, and $29,000 in cash in a Ford Mustang abandoned by the side of the highway near an immigration checkpoint in Sherman, Maine, the Border Patrol said.

The Border Patrol seized the drugs, cash, and vehicle on Monday, August 12, according to The County, which covers Aroostook County in northern Maine.

Time To Start Using Shark-Friendly Language, Environmentalist Says
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Time To Start Using Shark-Friendly Language, Environmentalist Says

Matthew McDonald

"Shark attacks," "shark-infested waters," shark "invasion," and shark "infiltration" should all be jettisoned as terms to describe huge increases in sharks off the coast of Cape Cod, a pro-shark environmentalist says.

"Sharks are in desperate need of conservation and protection …" but instead have been subject to "decades of irrational fearmongering," writes Reginald Walden in a guest column in The Cape Cod Times.

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