AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 14 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: Shortly after the Legislature passed it, Governor Janet Mills today signed into law bipartisan legislation immediately granting the power of subpoena to the Independent Commission to Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy in Lewiston. The bipartisan legislation, introduced late last month by Governor Mills and Attorney General Aaron Frey and approved unanimously by the Legislature today, aut more PR

MARYVILLE, Missouri, Feb. 14 -- Northwest Missouri State University issued the following news release: A Northwest Missouri State University student's experience at a coastal laboratory provided her with insight into the state of oceans while improving her communication skills as an aspiring scientist. Lauren Valenzuela, a senior general biology major from Pittsburg, Kansas, spent 14 weeks last fall at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine. The Bigelow Laboratory i more PR

ORONO, Maine, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Timothy Frawley has spent the better of the past two decades working in and around commercial fisheries. Born and raised in Casco Bay, Maine, he grew up packing lobsters and pitching bait on Portland's working waterfront. He has worked in commercial fisheries in California, Alaska and the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Throughout his years spent on working waterfronts, Frawley, a postdoctoral r more PR