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Charges Dropped Against Anti-Tax-Cut Protesters Who Occupied Senator’s Office

John Cronin

U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) asked prosecutors not to pursue charges against nine people from an interdenominational religious group who occupied her office in Portland last year to protest her support for the Republican tax cut. Collins asked that members of the group each donate $100 to a victims compensation fund.

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81-Year-Old Maine Man Has Been To How Many Super Bowls?

John Cronin

Every one of them. Donald Crisman of Kennebunk, Maine is one of a handful of people who have been to all the Super Bowls, including the one in 1968 in Miami where an ice storm forced him to take a 24-hour train ride to get to it; he thinks this year's, Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis, Minnesota, between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles, may be his last.

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