A retired professor who offered University of Southern Maine students one academic credit for going to Washington D.C. to protest against then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been barred from teaching in the state's university system.
Susan Feiner, who retired in September 2018 after 21 years teaching economics at the Portland school, can't teach at any Maine state university campus, according to the university's president.
Some 8,600 natural gas customers in Lawrence, North Andover, and Andover still don't have service, which means they don't have heat — even as temperatures are expected to plummet below freezing Wednesday night.
State officials are encouraging residents to seek shelter elsewhere.