Things You Need to Know Today: Harvest Hill Farms Agrees to Plea That Will End Criminal Case

Here are the things you need to  know today......

Winslow town council has approved a new dangerous dog ordinance. It is in response to a dog attack that killed a dog and injured its owner.  According to centralmaine.com  the new rules  increases fines, requires owners of dangerous dogs to have liability insurance and post warning .

From the Associated Press:

The average retail price of gasoline has fallen a little more than 2 cents per gallon in the last week. GasBuddy's says prices fell to $2.25 on Sunday. The price represents a decrease of 2.2 cents. Gas Prices in Maine are  3.3 higher than a year ago. The national average has decreased 1.4 cents per gallon from a year ago.

The Maine attorney general says the number of drug overdose deaths in the state through September already exceeds the total number for last year. Democrat Janet Mills says 286 residents died of drug overdoses through the first nine months of this year. The total for last year was 272, the previous record high.

Campaigners who oppose Maine's move toward legalized marijuana are entering their final full day of collecting signatures to force a recount. The No On 1 campaign needs to collect 100 signatures by 5 p.m. on Wednesday to bring about the recount. A spokeswoman for the Maine Department of the Secretary of State says a recount would likely take several weeks.

A Maine farm charged with manslaughter in a fatal Halloween-themed hayride crash has reached a plea agreement that'll end the criminal case against it. The attorney for Harvest Hill Farms says that the farm will plead guilty Tuesday to driving to endanger and that a manslaughter charge will be dropped. The October 2014 crash in Mechanic Falls claimed the life of 17-year-old Cassidy Charette and injured more than 20 other people.

The Maine Marine Patrol has charged a lobsterman with using more than 150 lobster traps above what he was allowed. Authorities say 52-year-old Brian Tarbox was charged after an officer inspected Tarbox's traps and discovered they included tags belonging to another license holder.

Students across the country walked out of their high schools Monday to protest the election of Donald Trump as president. In Los Angeles, more than a thousand students from several schools on the city's heavily Hispanic east side marched out of classes. In Denver, about 200 middle- and high-school students left two charter schools to march to the state Capitol. And in Silver Spring, Maryland, hundreds of high school students left campus and took to the streets to declare their opposition to the president-elect.

President-elect Donald Trump continues to focus on building his team, with a little more than two months before the inauguration. And a senior Trump official says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as the favorite to serve as secretary of state. Another Trump official says that John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is still in contention for the job.

An international human rights group says the Kenyan government is coercing refugees to return to Somalia where they risk getting killed or wounded in an ongoing conflict. Some of the refugees have been living in a refugee camp in eastern Kenya for more than two decades after Somalia descended into chaos following the 1991 ouster of a longtime dictator. Now Kenya's government has announced that the refugee camp, the world's largest, will be closed at the end of the month.

A German news agency says hundreds of police officers are searching more than 200 offices, mosques and apartments for members and supporters of the Islamic group "The true religion." The group is best known for distributing free copies of the Quran across the country. The dpa news agency says Germany's domestic intelligence service has warned that the group glorifies jihad and allegedly helps recruit people to send them to Syria and Iraq to fight with the Islamic State group.

Three cows that became stranded on a small island of grass following Monday's powerful earthquake in New Zealand have been rescued. Video of the stranded animals had captured the interest of people around the world. The Newshub news service reports that the two cows and a calf were rescued after a farmer and some helpers dug a track to them and brought them out.