A Maine doctor was arrested today in Kennebunk on criminal charges related to her alleged illegal distribution of opioids and other controlled substances.

According to court documents, Merideth C. Norris, D.O., 52, of Kennebunk, allegedly prescribed opioids, and other controlled substances, outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose. Due to her dangerous prescribing, as a condition of her release, Norris cannot prescribe any Schedule II-V controlled substances.

Norris is charged in an indictment with 10 counts of illegal distribution of opioids and other controlled substances. The defendant made her initial court appearance on Oct. 26. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on the top counts. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027194700/https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/criminal-division-announces-first-arrest-and-charges-new-england-prescription-opioid-strike

ushuaia

they made 4 or 5 stops.

https://i.imgur.com/jmdplQT.png

did you get a wiener whistle from meat man mitch?

people still get stuck down there thinking they know better, spinning tires until they're sunk up to their undercarriage.

"how was i supposed to know?"

it has been tried before in the mid 80s.

in 1984 some people with money and beach front properties in Wells didn't like looking at the peasants frolicking and sun soaking on their sand, so a couple dozen of them brought a case against the town and the state to prevent them from doing so.

in 1986 the supreme court extended private ownership to the low water mark, only granting an easement to the public for fish, fowl, navigation, citing the colonial ordinance as maine common law.

also in 1986, while this case was still in the system, before a decision had been made, the state legislature quickly passed the public trust in intertidal land act, which gave the public recreational rights to beaches.

this went back to the courts, and in 1987 the superior court ruled the public trust in intertidal land act unconstitutional, the public had no easements on beaches except for the original fish, fowl, nav.

appealed, and up to the supreme court in 1989, supreme court upheld previous decision, citing the colonial ordinance once again.

so basically it is defaulted back to the 1647 colonial ordinance, which only effects maine and massachusetts (maine was a district of massachusetts at this time), granting a public easement for fishing, fowling, and navigation only.

nope, elroy's.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection said Monday that the downed trees must be out of the corridor before winter, along with the mats that were placed to support construction cranes. If the trees and mats aren’t removed in time, the project will no longer be compliance with its permit.

More than 36,000 crane mats need to be removed and more than 20 miles of vegetation must be removed or chipped and spread, according to the DEP.

Clean-up of one section was due to start Monday, and the clean-up of the final section is due to be completed by Dec. 14.

The DEP’s order said that requiring NECEC to remove the mats and the cut vegetation is narrowly tailored to those two tasks and doesn’t allow NECEC to restart construction work for the transmission line.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221003232005/https://www.pressherald.com/2022/10/03/maine-dep-wants-sections-of-planned-electricity-corridor-cleaned-up/