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This photograph provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources shows an endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing rope being sighted with a newborn calf on Dec. 2, 2021, in waters near Cumberland Island, Ga. A federal circuit court has reinstated a ban on lobster fishing gear in a nearly 1,000-square-mile area off New England on Wednesday July 13, 2022 to try to protect endangered whales. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued new regulations last year that prohibited lobster fishing with vertical buoy lines in part of the fall and winter in the area. The ruling was intended to prevent North Atlantic right whales, which number less than 340, from becoming entangled. (Georgia Department of Natural Resources/NOAA Permit #20556 via AP)

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Ships must slow down more often to save whales, feds say
By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press
Fri,07/29/22-10:10AM , 213 Reads
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Vessels off the East Coast must slow down more often to help save a vanishing species of whale from extinction, the federal government said Friday.
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This Dec. 2, 2021, photo provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources shows an endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing rope being sighted with a newborn calf in waters near Cumberland Island, Ga. The federal government hasn't done enough to protect a rare species of whale from lethal entanglement in lobster fishing gear, and new rules are needed to protect the species from extinction, a judge has ruled, Friday, July 8, 2022. (Georgia Department of Natural Resources/NOAA Permit #20556 via AP)

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Weak protection for vanishing whale violates law, judge says
By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press
Sat,07/09/22-9:25AM , 310 Reads
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government hasn't done enough to protect a rare species of whale from lethal entanglement in lobster fishing gear, and new rules are needed to protect the species from extinction, a judge has ruled.
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Care network to make changes after trans discrimination case
By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press
Mon,06/13/22-10:46AM , 462 Reads
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A network of adult care facilities in Maine will adopt a nondiscrimination policy about the care of transgender people as part of a settlement with a woman who filed a human rights complaint against the company.
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Jessica Pflumm of Olathe, Kansas, poses with Maks, a Ukrainian boy she and her family are working to adopt. The Pflumms are among dozens of families whose adoptions are on hold because of the war in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has halted the process of international adoption. Ukraine has stopped all international adoptions as the country copes with the turmoil unleashed on its courts by the war. (Photo Courtesy of Jessica Pflumm via AP)

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Adoptions another facet of life halted by war in Ukraine
By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press
Sat,05/21/22-12:03AM , 535 Reads
LEEDS, Maine (AP) — The ripple effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been devastating for families of all kinds — including those who have seen their prospective adoptions put on hold.
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