A Maine professor disgusted with a left-wing public-employee union is suing to try to force the state university system to stop recognizing the union as representing him and to stop deductions from his paycheck from going to the union.
Jonathan Reisman, a tenured associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Maine at Machias, doesn't belong to the union and says he doesn't agree with the political stands the union has spent money on in recent years, including opposing Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage in 2010 and 2014 and supporting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.
Father Bill Costello, a retired priest of the Diocese of Fall River missing and reported dead in Texas, is still officially missing, a police spokesman said.
Authorities found the body of a man in a county somewhat near Costello's home in South Padre Island, Texas, but previous news reports that the body is Costello's are not confirmed, the police spokesman told The Cape Cod Times.
