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For the second straight day, Maine saw coronavirus cases surge to a record high, with 1,460 new infections across the state along with one more death.That surpasses Wednesdays single-day record of 1,275.Thursdays report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 126,833,according to the Maine Center for Disease stanley cup website Control and Prevention. Thats up from 125,373 on Wednesday. Of those, 90,682have been confirmed positive, while 36,151were classified as probable cases, the Maine CDC reported.A man in his 40s from Kennebec County has succumbed to the virus, bringing t adidas samba adidas he statewide death toll to 1,357.The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 8,892. This is an estimation of the current number of active cases in the state, as the Maine CDC is no longer tracking recoveries for all patients. That up from 8,425 on Wednesday.The new case rate statewide Wednesday was 10.91 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 947.64.Maines seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 769.6, up from 683.3 the day before, up from 404.1 a week ago stanley taza and up from 512.3 a month ago. That average has surged past the previous peak of 685.4, set on Nov. 23.The most cases have been detected in Mainers younger than 20, while Mainers over 80 years old make up the majority of deaths. More cases have been recorded in women and more deaths in men.So far, 3,198 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused b Cfui Nautilus Fundraising Day to support Friends of Sears Island on June 16
The Dixmont man whose house was destroyed by a police bomb and who was shot by members of the Maine State Police during a June standoff is expected to resolve his case Friday wi adidas yeezy thout serving time behind bars.Michael Grendell, 62, has reached a plea agreement with the Penobscot County district attorneys office that calls for him to serve four years on probation but not go to jail or prison, his attorney, David Bate of Bangor said Thursday.Grendell will plead no contest to one count each of reckless conduct and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, both Class C crimes, Bate said. In exchange for his pleas, Penobscot County Deputy District Attorney Marianne Lynch will dismiss one count of attempted murder, a Class A crime.No contest pleas result in convictions.Class C crimes carry maximum sentences stanley cup of five years, while the maximum sentence for Class A crimes is 30 years.Lynch did not immediately return a request fo af1 r confirmation of the deal.Bate and Lynch are expected to make a joint recommendation to Superior Court Justice Ann Murray that Grendell be sentenced to the time he has been held at Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta 鈥?about six weeks, according to the defense attorney. Grendell was transferred to Riverview in early September after he was released from Maine Medical Center in Portland.Under Maine law, if Murray were to reject the plea agreement, Grendell would be free to withdraw his no contest pleas and go to trial.Bate said Friday that it had not been de |