• AUGUSTA - The Maine Department of Education is committing over $150,000 to continue the work of the state's first autism institute. (mainedoenews.net)
  • Overdose deaths in Black, non-Hispanic Philadelphians rose by nearly 30%, Hispanic Philadelphians by 1.1%, while White Philadelphians experienced a nearly 10% drop in overdose deaths compared to 2019.In the first six months of 2021, the Health Department recorded 582 overdose deaths, putting the city on track for it's worst year in overdose deaths, and it is expected that the changing demographics will continue. (phila.gov)
  • In 2021, the Department published A Strategic Plan to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at The Maine Department of Health and Human Services ( PDF) and re-launched the Office of Population Health Equity at Maine CDC . (maine.gov)
  • The Bangor Police Department has issued a Silver Alert for 38-year-old Graham Lacher of Norridgewock who was last seen Monday, June 6, 2022 at approximately 4:40 p.m. running away from the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center at 656 State Street in Bangor. (maine.gov)
  • Mr. Dalessandrids was last seen Monday, August 22, 2022 at approximately 2:49 pm leaving Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor on foot. (maine.gov)
  • Brock, William A. and Chen, Bo and Durlauf, Steven N. and Weber, Shlomo, Everybody's Talkin' at Me: Levels of Majority Language Acquisition by Minority Language Speakers (August 31, 2022). (ssrn.com)
  • For 2013-2017, we obtained the annual number of hospitalizations for Lyme disease and HGA for Maine residents, with age and county of residence at admission, from the Maine Health Data Organization. (cdc.gov)
  • Anyone who sees Graham Lacher or has information should call the Bangor Police Department at 207-942-8211 or their local law enforcement agency. (maine.gov)
  • The Bangor Police Department has issued a Silver Alert for 55-year old Joseph Dalessandrids of Presque Isle. (maine.gov)
  • The Bangor Police Department has issued a Silver Alert for Jason Anderson, 69, of Bangor. (maine.gov)
  • If you see him call 911 or the Bangor Police Department at 207-942-8211. (maine.gov)
  • The case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, with assistance provided by the Dexter Police Department, the Penobscot County Sheriff's Office, the Piscataquis County Sheriff's Office, and the Maine State Police. (justice.gov)
  • The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Maine State Police, the Brunswick Police Department, and the Monson, Massachusetts Police Department. (justice.gov)
  • Chicago Police Department: Before I knew it he was running at me, crossing the finish line, he got down on one knee and I thought that he was hurt, and then he said, Erin, I dont know what to say, and then I realized what was going on. (quotes.net)
  • The Chicago Police Department, is the principal law enforcement agency of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Chicago. (quotes.net)
  • It is the second largest non-federal law enforcement agency in the United States behind the New York City Police Department. (quotes.net)
  • Tracing its roots back to 1835, the Chicago Police Department is one of the oldest modern police forces in the world. (quotes.net)
  • Maine DHHS employs over 3,000 people who work in 16 offices across our state to provide services to over one third of Maine residents. (maine.gov)
  • The strangest thing about it is that the issues LAHD are targeting are definitely in the purview of the Department of Building and Safety - not LAHD. (curbed.com)
  • In cases that come under the purview of the coroner or ME, the need of the jurisdiction to determine the cause of death (the underlying event leading to death) and the manner of death (homicide, suicide, accident, natural, or not determined) overrides objections the next-of-kin may have regarding autopsy. (medscape.com)
  • PHILADELPHIA-The Philadelphia Department of Public Health opened a Naloxone Near Me tower at the Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library. (phila.gov)
  • The program called Naloxone Near Me is part of the Health Department's harm reduction and overdose response program. (phila.gov)
  • This new partnership with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health is the first of its kind in the United States. (phila.gov)
  • In 2019, in her first months in office, the Governor reconstituted the Children's Cabinet and directed the Department to tackle the gaps in Maine's mental health and substance use disorder system for children and youth. (maine.gov)
  • The Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) developed a Children's Behavioral Health Services Plan for Maine. (maine.gov)
  • Evidence suggests that this service could reduce hospitalizations by 50 percent and mental health emergency department visits by around 80 percent. (maine.gov)
  • Develop an inclusive infrastructure to advance data-driven health equity programs across all Department services. (maine.gov)
  • Maine also has a significant larger proportion of its population without health insurance than the national average. (cdc.gov)
  • To this end, I build historical and contemporary spatial datasets that allow me to analyse the expansion of the missionary enterprise, the development of education and health care systems, and the. (lu.se)
  • In the United States, the medicolegal investigation of unusual, suspicious, sudden and unexplained, violent, and non-natural deaths, including those deemed a possible threat to the public health, is usually performed by a coroner system or a medical examiner (ME) system. (medscape.com)
  • The tracking program has been successful in developing a nationwide environmental public health tracking network (EPHTN) and in developing capacity in environmental health within state and local health departments. (cdc.gov)
  • Slight erythema may be expected with both vaccines, but any further skin changes should be reported to the health department to determine actual necessity of vaccine. (medscape.com)
  • Mathematics Content Specialist at the Colorado Department of Education and Ph.D. candidate at CU-Boulder. (about.me)
  • In 2012, MaineDOT sought an operator to restore passenger service on St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad tracks to Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. (wikipedia.org)
  • While it is possible to become a volunteer with a criminal history, each volunteer applicant is looked at individually by the volunteer department at MCC. (maine.gov)
  • We envision a diverse workforce in which every Department employee understands their individual and collective responsibility to actively promote equity and inclusion. (maine.gov)
  • Photo by MDC Staff, courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation. (mo.gov)
  • Three large conservation groups in Maine are adding the U.S. Department of Energy to their lawsuit challenging what they allege are flawed federal permits granted to Central Maine Power for its controversial transmission line project. (centralmaine.com)
  • He was intubated and transported to a local emergency department. (cdc.gov)
  • Although the older brother was asymptomatic when he arrived at the emergency department, he was treated prophylactically with gastric lavage and administered activated charcoal. (cdc.gov)
  • Eliciting a history of recent animal or bite exposures is of utmost importance, as many patients described in the literature were initially sent home by the emergency department. (medscape.com)
  • Lyme disease cases in Maine increased from a single case in 1986 to 1,844 in 2017, reflecting the northward range expansion of I. scapularis ticks ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • An official website of the United States government, Department of Justice. (ojp.gov)
  • The Maine Department of Public Safety is the State Administering Agency for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program. (ojp.gov)
  • Maine state law requires MaineDOT to operate regular ferry routes, known as the Maine State Ferry Service, to specific island localities along Maine's Atlantic coast. (wikipedia.org)
  • In their legal filing, the resources council and Sierra Club Maine said that by choosing not to conduct a rigorous environmental review, the Army Corps had abdicated its responsibility to assess the full impacts of the proposed transmission line, including a new 53-mile corridor that would cut through Maine's western mountains region. (centralmaine.com)
  • Those funds are in addition to the $209,802 the Department and the University of Maine's College of Education and Human Development contributed to open the Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research (MAIER) at the start of 2014. (mainedoenews.net)
  • The state departments skepticism kept the news from reaching the media for several months. (123helpme.com)
  • The Maine Department of Transportation's three-year work plan includes more than 2,300 projects at a total estimated cost of $3.2 billion. (sunjournal.com)
  • Can I sue the Traffic department for making me miss work to come in for a hearing? (freeadvice.com)
  • I will obviously contest their red light camera ticket, but doing so in a hearing would cause me to miss work. (freeadvice.com)
  • Ensure meaningful stakeholder engagement throughout the work of the Department. (maine.gov)
  • Coroner and ME offices also work hand-in-hand with law enforcement, regulatory, security, and other agencies to explain and monitor biologic and chemical threats, deaths due to consumer products and medical devices, drug-related death, and infectious diseases such as influenza and others. (medscape.com)
  • The Maine Department of Transportation, also known as MaineDOT (occasionally referred to as MDOT), is the office of state government charged with the regulation and maintenance of roads, rail, ferries, and other public transport infrastructure in the state of Maine. (wikipedia.org)
  • This money has to be allotted to the various departments, which require funding such as Education, Environment and Leisure, Finance, Housing, Planning and Transportation and Social services. (123helpme.com)
  • The old radio repeater had been in use since 1989, 15 years ago, and is used by Naples Dispatch, the Sebago Fire Department, Sebago Rescue, and other Fire Departments and Rescue services responding to emergency calls in Sebago. (crabcoll.com)
  • While Maine has a comprehensive array of services, there are gaps that the proposed budget would help fill. (maine.gov)
  • Our vision was that parents of kids with autism would say, 'I'm glad I live in Maine because of the resources available for our family here,'" said Maine DOE Director of Special Services Jan Breton. (mainedoenews.net)
  • The following program areas will be funded to address the areas of greatest need in an effort to enhance anti-crime and drug control services in Maine: law enforcement programs, prosecution and court programs, prevention and education programs, corrections and community corrections programs, drug treatment and enforcement programs, planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs, and crime victim and witness programs. (ojp.gov)
  • Last October, the three groups filed their initial lawsuit in federal court challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for failing to rigorously assess the full impacts of CMP's transmission line on the woods, waters and communities of western Maine. (centralmaine.com)
  • On October 5, 1992, a 23-year-old man and his 39-year-old brother were foraging for wild ginseng in the midcoastal Maine woods. (cdc.gov)
  • United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ervin Morrison III, 23, of Gardiner, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to wire fraud charges. (justice.gov)
  • Maine Fire Service Institute in South Portland received $108,609 for firefighter turnout gear, portable radios, training props and equipment. (ems1.com)
  • As physicians and lay professionals obtained training in medicolegal investigation of death in the northeastern United States, they took that training and began to move to other areas of the nation, establishing ME systems. (medscape.com)
  • Naloxone Near Me towers allow people to get life-saving naloxone and other overdose reversal supplies 24 hours a day, seven days a week, anonymously, and for free. (phila.gov)
  • You go through all these phases of who shall I be, what do people want me to be, then you get to the point - as everyone should - where you go, f*ck it, I'm just going to be myself. (shortlist.com)
  • Maine Correctional Center recognizes the power of community involvement within the facility. (maine.gov)
  • The Maine Correctional Center welcomes volunteers of diverse backgrounds and professions. (maine.gov)
  • Hurricane-force winds extended as far as 140 miles (220 kilometers) from Lee's center, with tropical storm-force winds extending as far as 390 miles (630 kilometers) - enough to cover all of Maine and much of Maritime Canada. (wnct.com)
  • The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (MECDC) reported 663 cases of anaplasmosis in 2017, a 605% increase from 94 cases in 2013, in contrast with Lyme disease cases, which increased by only 33% (1,384 in 2013 to 1,844 in 2017) ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Just so everyone is aware some of the slides in the deck were written by the U. S. C. center and civic can offer for the department of Homeland Securities emergency management institute and they offer some of this information and anion line course called FEMA 505 individual study 505, which you can take online by Googling FEMA 505. (cdc.gov)
  • However, Maine has mortality rates that are lower than the total U.S. for the following causes: cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, kidney disease, and suicide. (cdc.gov)
  • Another name for it is myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). (medlineplus.gov)
  • Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: What is ME/CFS? (medlineplus.gov)
  • Hurricane: Before, During and After the Storm If forecasters are beginning to talk about a hurricane or tropical storm possibly affecting Maine, get prepared now. (bangormaine.gov)
  • Severe conditions were predicted across parts of Massachusetts and Maine, and hurricane conditions could hit the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where the storm, Lee, downgraded early Saturday from hurricane to post-tropical cyclone, was expected to make landfall later in the day. (wnct.com)
  • BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) - Atlantic storm Lee made landfall at near-hurricane strength Saturday in Nova Scotia, Canada, after bringing destructive winds, rough surf and torrential rains to a large swath of New England and Maritime Canada that toppled trees, swamped coastlines and cut power to tens of thousands. (wnct.com)
  • These are the jail administrator, the assistant administrator, the county commissioners, the sheriff and his deputies as well as the officers from the local police departments. (123helpme.com)
  • Lee could drop as much as 4 inches of rain on parts of Maine, Massachusetts, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick through Saturday night, with the potential for local flooding. (wnct.com)
  • Major progress on two important projects for the Sebago Fire Department took place this week. (crabcoll.com)
  • The addition had been recommended by the Fire House Committee and the Fire Department, and had been endorsed by the Budget Committee and the Board of Selectmen during the Capital Investment Program budget process. (crabcoll.com)
  • One of the first things that the Fire Department will do will be to move their monthly meetings and training drills to the new addition and cease use of the upstairs meeting room at Station 2, the East Sebago station. (crabcoll.com)
  • The fire department made arrangements with Central Maine Power to install a 50' telephone pole at the parking lot. (crabcoll.com)
  • The U.S. Department of Education has taken the unusual step of punishing one of the largest federal student loan servicers for failing to send on-time billing statements to 2.5 million borrowers. (mainepublic.org)
  • The department said on Monday that it would withhold $7.2 million in payment owed to the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri, better known as MOHELA, for the month of October. (mainepublic.org)
  • The internal Education Department memo suggests Szyman is in good company: 78,000 borrowers experienced something similar. (mainepublic.org)
  • The Education Department announced on Monday that it has instructed servicers to place all borrowers affected by these mistakes into forbearance, for any interest that accrued to be zeroed out and for that forbearance time to count as credit toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness . (mainepublic.org)
  • For more information about the Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research, visit www.maineautisminstitute.org or www.facebook.com/maineautisminstitute . (mainedoenews.net)
  • The institute has convened the Maine Family Partnership, a family-led initiative working to create a system of supports for families impacted by autism. (mainedoenews.net)
  • The Appalachian Mountain Club, Natural Resources Council of Maine and Sierra Club Maine say the department erred in issuing a permit for the New England Clean Energy Connect project. (centralmaine.com)
  • In their legal filing announced Monday, the Appalachian Mountain Club, Natural Resources Council of Maine and Sierra Club Maine said the federal energy department committed an error in issuing a so-called presidential permit for the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor, without first allowing public comment. (centralmaine.com)
  • Some of the reforms that will probably take place in the future include, better educated police officers and police managers, consolidation of police departments to save on money and resources, upgraded technology, race and gender equality, better testing techniques to recruit and promote within the department, and improved proactive planning techniques. (123helpme.com)
  • In addition to providing resources directly to parents so they can help their children with autism live more productive lives, MAIER has provided training to nearly 400 professionals and 17 additional trainings are scheduled during the current and next school year, thanks to Maine DOE's funding. (mainedoenews.net)
  • The Maine legislature voted overwhelmingly to refuse to comply with the act's mandates, and requested that Congress repeal the law. (eff.org)
  • The program, which has promoted carpooling and vanpooling, is expanding its focus beyond daily commutes to meet the state climate goal of reducing the number of vehicle miles traveled in Maine. (sunjournal.com)
  • The Kansas Department of Agriculture has selected 12 farmers' markets as recipients of the Meet Me at the Market stipend program. (farmersmarketcoalition.org)
  • This program, a part of the Farmers' Market Consumer Recruitment Campaign Grant, is made possible by a U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant that makes funds available to state departments of agriculture solely to enhance competitiveness of specialty crops. (farmersmarketcoalition.org)
  • They've also held two "My Day to Play" events at the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor, providing youngsters with autism a safe space to explore and enjoy the children's museum. (mainedoenews.net)
  • Since this is Maine, no one was surprised when Carl and Alan uncovered three huge granite boulders buried behind the station right where the foundation will be going. (crabcoll.com)
  • The Westminster council has to allocate money to various departments from this general fund. (123helpme.com)
  • At midday Saturday, 11% of electricity customers in Maine lacked power, along with 27% of Nova Scotia, 8% of New Brunswick and 3% of Prince Edward Island. (wnct.com)
  • Reprint permission for Show-Me Institute publications and commentaries is hereby granted, provided that proper credit is given to the author. (showmeinstitute.org)
  • Final Report to the Department of the Environment. (dwi.gov.uk)
  • After four years at Tetra Pak's global environment department, he was offered to take on an operational role and be responsible for the Nordic and Baltic markets, and he gladly accepted. (lu.se)
  • A K9 track was attempted that ended in the area of Eastern Maine Community College. (maine.gov)
  • I think working in this community and engaging with people's stories has opened up the continent to me. (africanleadershipacademy.org)