Cate McCusker
Reporter at WMTW-TV (Auburn, ME)
Political Reporter @WMTWTV / @TheVillanovan Alum / Story idea? Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wmtw.com | Cate McCusker
State lawmakers are criticizing the state's Department of Health and Human Services after a young child died in Lewiston.Police say 4-year-old Jasper Smith was found dead in a Lewiston apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. The child's family says they made several calls to DHHS to try to remove Jasper and his siblings from an unsafe environment.
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1 week ago |
wmtw.com | Cate McCusker
After three days of intense search efforts, crews have recovered the bodies of a father and daughter from New York who went missing while hiking Mount Katahdin. Maine Game Wardens and search teams found the body of 28-year-old Esther Keiderling around 1 p.m. Wednesday in a rugged boulder field between the Cathedral and Saddle Trails off the Katahdin Tablelands. Her father, 58-year-old Tim Keiderling, was located a day earlier near the summit by a Maine Warden Service K9 team.
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2 weeks ago |
wmtw.com | Cate McCusker
June is Pride Month, and while Pride events are usually joyful celebrations for the LGBTQ community, the political climate this year may make Pride events in the state different. "Pride normally feels like a big party, a celebration, lots of color," Tanner Skilton, interim chair of Pride Portland, said.
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2 weeks ago |
wmtw.com | Cate McCusker
On Wednesday afternoon Rep. Chellie Pingree, the Democrat representing Southern Maine, held a roundtable discussion about the Republican budget bill at Planned Parenthood in Portland. The "One Big Beautiful" bill, passed narrowly by the House, pushes President Donald Trump's agenda forward, as it includes tax and social program cuts and new spending on fossil fuels, border security, and the military. Supporters of the bill say the changes will save money and root out waste and abuse.
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2 weeks ago |
wmtw.com | Cate McCusker
Sen. Susan Collins, Maine's only Republican lawmaker in Congress, says she is still considering how she will vote on the budget bill narrowly passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives. "I'm still looking at it because it kept changing up until literally the very minute it passed," Collins said. The bill includes many of President Donald Trump's priorities, including tax cuts and spending on border security. Both of Maine's representatives, Democrats Rep. Chellie Pingree and Rep.
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The Baxter State Park Director tells me they are still evaluating the deaths of the two missing hikers, but he said they did have food, water and other necessary equipment for their hike. "We may not ever be able to determine why some of the decisions that were made occurred."
RT @NovaKnowsBall: Once a Wildcat Always A Wildcat. The Pope shows his support for his Alma-mater. \V/ https://t.co/iHJPEaT2Mp
The body of Tim’s daughter Esther has been found off the Tablelands, in a wooded area between two trails. A tragic update for this family.
UPDATE: The body of Tim Keiderling has been found near the summit of Mt. Katahdin, but the search for his daughter Esther continues.
