1. Two Skowhegan Area High School students are charged with making separate threats involving schools in MSAD 54, police said Thursday. Skowhegan police said a 14-year-old student was charged with felony terrorizing after investigators said he posted to Facebook and Instagram a picture of an AR-15 with the words “Skowhegan” and “you’re all dead.” Police said a second student, who is 15 or 16 years old, was charged with felony terrorizing after a threatening post was published on social media Thursday morning. Police said the two teens are not friends and the second threat was a copycat of the first threat. (WMTW)
2. L.L. Bean has announced the company will no longer sell rifles to anyone under 21. L.L. Bean joined retail heavyweights Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods in changing policies in the wake of the Florida school massacre. (WGME)
3. With only three northern white rhinos left in the world, the only male is gravely ill, raising fears that the subspecies is getting closer to extinction. Sudan made headlines last year when the Tinder dating app named him the “most eligible bachelor in the world”in a campaign to raise funds to save the subspecies. For an animal on the verge of extinction, the fate of the subspecies rests on Sudan’s ability to conceive with the two rhinos. (CNN)
4. Greely is a basketball powerhouse. Both the varsity boys and girls squads took home the Class A state final championship yesterday. Both defeating Hampden Academy. Scarborough boys play in the Class AA championship tonight at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland. (Press Herald)
5. Dr. Seuss Day. Celebrated on the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, this day offers a full twenty-four hours to make a mess with the Cat in the Hat, dance around with the Fox in Sox, hear a Who with Horton, or count the red and blue fish.
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