PORTLAND, Maine, March 16 -- The Maine Medical Center issued the following news release: In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Maine Medical Center and Maine Medical Partners are immediately implementing temporary restrictions with regard to their policies for visitors. This is being done, in part, to prevent or limit community spread of the virus. Infectious disease experts say that measures to contain the virus are most effective early in its spread. Also, though the vast majority of peop  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on March 15: * * * - Maine Statehood Day is Sunday, March 15th * * * In honor of Maine's 200th anniversary, U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King authored a resolution that was passed by the U.S. Senate unanimously this week. Maine became our nation's 23rd state on March 15, 1820. "It is a pleasure to join my fellow Mainers in celebrating our bicentennial and the generations of people who have wr  more