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Skowhegan police are still working to get a fake Skowhegan Police Department page taken down. The page has a fake story about a triple murder. According to centralmaine.com the department has had a hard time making contact with Facebook.  The fake page has misspellings including the 'departament'.

From the Associated Press:

Gas prices are rising in northern New England. GasBuddy shows that the average retail price went up 3.8 cents per gallon in Maine in the past week, averaging $2.25. They also went up 3.1 cents in New Hampshire, to $2.15 a gallon. In Vermont, they went up 3.2 cents, to $2.27.

Maine's scallop fishing season is in full swing with dragger boats now allowed to harvest the valuable shellfish. Scallops have been increasing in price around the country, and Maine's are some of the most valuable. The dragger fishing season began on Monday.

The hope Maine marijuana proponents had of growing their own pot by Christmas is unlikely because a recount of the ballot question to legalize the practice is expected to go into next year. The recount began Monday in Augusta. The Maine secretary of state's office says results won't be certified until the recount is over. That could be as late as spring.

The presidential recount in Michigan continues Tuesday. And they'll be counting votes in Michigan's largest county, which includes Detroit, as well as in five other counties. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein requested the recount in Michigan, Pennsylvania and in Wisconsin, which started its recount last week. The fate of a statewide recount push in Pennsylvania awaits action in federal court.

The FBI and local law enforcement agencies say they're not taking any chances after the FBI was informed that a terrorist attack was planned for Tuesday on the Universal City subway station in Los Angeles County. Authorities say they don't know if that threat against the commuter rail system is credible, but security has been stepped up. Authorities say the information came in an anonymous phone call.

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are joining forces to more quickly identify the worst terrorist propaganda and prevent it from spreading online. The new program, expected to begin early next year, would create a database of unique digital "fingerprints" to help automatically identify videos or images. Social media has increasingly become a tool for recruiting and radicalization by the Islamic State group and others.

The Islamic State group is holding more than 200 Assyrian Christians taken hostage in Syria, and over the course of a year, members of the ancient community have raised millions of dollars to pay for their release. Members tell The Associated Press that the donations have been raised in part from church offerings and Facebook appeals. Paying ransoms to IS is illegal in the United States and most of the West. But the Assyrians involved say they had no choice.

California lawmakers are quickly putting together legislation to help protect immigrants in the state from President-elect Donald Trump's plans for more deportations. Democratic State Sen. Ben Hueso says he's proposing a measure to fund lawyers for immigrants in deportation proceedings. Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta has introduced a bill to help public defenders assess the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.

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