MAINE

While Massachusetts House lawmakers have passed a version of new, strict gun regulations, the Massachusetts Senate has yet to finish crafting their own bill.

According to Maine Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck, 40-year-old Robert Card was found along the Androscoggin River around 7:45 p.m. Police say Card died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police have released little information about Robert R. Card, aside from that he is a 40-year-old Bowdoin resident who should be considered armed and dangerous. But a picture of Card has begun to emerge from other official sources, family and community members.

A man shot and killed 18 people at a restaurant and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday and then fled into the night, sparking a massive search by hundreds of officers while frightened residents stayed locked in their homes.

Heather Flor Cron grew up in Portland, Maine, feeling like an outsider because she was part of a multicultural family. But she decided to stay, and those roots have deepened through her work farming and providing for the Latinx community around her.

Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law a bill that removes restrictions on abortions later in a pregnancy, moving Maine in the opposite direction politically of many states on the contentious issue.

Massachusetts House lawmakers piled about $700 million onto Gov. Maura Healey's budget, and this week the House Ways and Means Committee's $56.2 billion fiscal 2024 budget is the focus. The extra funding authorizes online lottery sales to fund child care investments, different local aid levels and more programs.

The complaint argues the school district violated Lavigne's parental rights to control and direct the education and upbringing of her child by intentionally withholding information about her child's gender expression.

Four Massachusetts lobstermen have filed a class action suit against the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Marine Stewardship Council, groups that urged distributors and grocery stores to avoid purchasing lobster because of the fishery's impact on North Atlantic right whales.

With temperatures reaching into the 40s and 50s this week in southern and midcoast Maine, some maple syrup producers are tapping their trees and are already seeing early sap runs.