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Chamber, WGME pair up for ‘Make It Here’ TV campaign

LEWISTON — The Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and WGME unveiled a two-year “Make It Here” image campaign Thursday at the LA Metro Marketplace event. A fast-paced video presented at the event showed off the food, the people and the work of Lewiston-Auburn. Videos will run on Channel 13 for the next two years. […]

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Maine TV stations among outlets airing ‘fake stories’ segment scripted by Sinclair Broadcasting

? WGME-TV (Channel 13) has been swept up in a national controversy since its corporate parent directed local anchors at its nearly 200 stations across the country to record a scripted promotional segment warning viewers about “fake stories” from competing media outlets. WGME hosts Kim Block and Gregg Lagerquist recorded the “must run” segment on orders from […]

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Fatal crash in Brownfield on Friday killed Hiram woman

BROWNFIELD — Police have named Gail Sumber, 80, of Hiram as the person killed in a car crash on Route 113 on Friday afternoon, WGME reported. Sumber was a passenger in a car driven by James Biggs, 70, of Hiram that nearly struck head-on a car driven by Melissa Lavin, 40, of Bangor. Channel 13 […]

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Fire destroys unoccupied Wilton home

WILTON — WGME Channel 13 is reporting that an overnight fire leveled a home in Wilton early Saturday morning and is being investigated as suspicious. Before 3 a.m. Saturday, firefighters responded to 1090 Route 2 West in Wilton, finding a two-story home engulfed in flames. The fire destroyed the home, which was unoccupied for the […]

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Charges filed against woman who claimed she was attacked

LEWISTON — Allegations of a hate crime against a lesbian by five young men turned out to be a different story after an investigation by the Lewiston Police Department. Janelle Lynn Martel, 28, of 94 Warren Ave., was formally charged Wednesday with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon and driving to endanger, following an altercation […]