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4 fatally shot in Maine home, followed by gunfire on highway

By PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP

an hour ago

 

YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) โ€” Four people were found fatally shot in a Maine home Tuesday shortly before gunfire injured three others on a busy highway 25 miles away in a pair of crimes that were linked, state police said. One person was in custody.

 

The bodies were found in a home in Bowdoin a short time before three people were shot in their vehicles to the south on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, authorities said.

 

Maine State Police said the shootings were connected but didnโ€™t immediately discuss a motive or identify the person in custody, police spokesperson Shannon Moss said.

 

The shootings on I-295 led to a heavy police presence in Yarmouth, including officers carrying rifles. At one point, heavily armed officers peered inside the trunk of a car that had apparent bullet holes in the windshield at an off ramp. Witnesses told reporters they saw one person in handcuffs.

 

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Yarmouth is a community of 9,000 about 12 miles north of Portland, the stateโ€™s largest city, which I-295 connects to the state capital, Augusta. Bowdoin is a rural farming community with about 3,000 residents.

 

โ€œWe are confident that there is no imminent threat to the general public at this time,โ€ said Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry, whose deputies were assisting in Bowdoin. He referred questions to state police.

 

At the scene in Bowdoin, yellow crime scene tape hung around a home with a long, gravel driveway in a wooded area. About 10 marked and unmarked law enforcement vehicles and a crime scene van were parked outside, and investigators moved about and talked.

 

In Yarmouth, traffic backed up on the interstate as police shut down the southbound lanes, and state, county and local police canvassed the area. Representatives for the Maine Department of Transportation said they closed the southbound side of I-295 in Yarmouth in late morning at the request of state police.

 

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Fox, Dominion reach settlement over false election claims

 

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) โ€” Fox and Dominion Voting Systems reached a settlement Tuesday in the voting machine companyโ€™s defamation lawsuit, averting a trial in a case that exposed how the top-rated network chased viewers by promoting lies about the 2020 presidential election.

 

An attorney for Dominion said the settlement was for $787.5 million.

 

โ€œThe truth matters. Lies have consequences,โ€ said Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson in a news conference outside the courthouse after the announcement.

 

Dominion had asked for $1.6 billion in arguing that Fox had damaged its reputation by helping peddle phony conspiracy theories about its equipment switching votes from former President Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden. Fox said the amount greatly overstated the value of the Colorado-based company.

 

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The resolution announced in Delaware Superior Court follows a recent summary judgment ruling by Judge Eric Davis in which he allowed the case to go to trial while emphasizing it was โ€œCRYSTAL clearโ€ that none of the allegations about Dominion aired on Fox by Trump allies were true.

 

In a statement issued shortly after the announcement, Fox News said the network acknowledged โ€œthe courtโ€™s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.โ€ It did not respond to an inquiry asking for elaboration.

 

Inquiries to Dominion and Fox Corp. were not immediately returned.

 

Records released as part of the lawsuit showed how Fox hosts and executives did not believe the claims by Trumpโ€™s allies but aired them anyway, in part to win back viewers who were fleeing the network after it correctly called hotly contested Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden on election night.

 

The settlement, if formally accepted by the judge, will end a case that has proven a major embarrassment for Fox News. If the case had gone to trial, it also would have presented one of the sternest tests to a libel standard that has protected media organizations for more than half a century.

 

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