Things You Need to Know Today: Downeaster Dome Car + ‘North Woods Law’ is a Wrap

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

The Amtrak Downeaster will be using a dome car until September 18^th.  According to WGME for passengers who sit in the dome care you will get a 360 degree view of the scenery.

North Wood Law wrapped up last night.  According to WGME, the Animal Plant show about Maine Game Wardens premiered four years ago.

A tractor-trailer tipped over Falmouth spur yesterday causing delays. According to WCSH, it was hauling broccoli.

Maine blueberries are headed for a good crop despite the dry weather.  According to WABI, growers are expecting a total of about 90 million pounds.

The state is proposing a new facility next to Riverview Psychiatric. According to centralmaine.com it would be for patients who ‘committed crimes and no longer require hospital-level care.’ They are hoping to regain the federal funding.

From the Associated Press:

Maine's superintendent of insurance has ruled against an Ohio-based company's request to increase car insurance rates for older residents based solely on age. Progressive Corp.'s request would've impacted up to 65,000 policyholders in Maine and violated state insurance law that bars arbitrary age-based rate hikes. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data shows Maine in 2012 and 2013 had the highest share of older drivers involved in fatal accidents in the country.

Maine Democratic senators are questioning a $3.4 million no-bid contract that Republican Gov. Paul LePage's administration awarded to a nonprofit now tasked with overseeing a statewide program helping parents care for infants. Democratic Sen. Cathy Breen, of Falmouth, said the legislature needs to take a look at state procurement rules and how it applied to the contract, which was first reported by the Bangor Daily News.

The University Maine System will pay $30,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the former athletic director of its Augusta campus. Warren Newton alleged that university officials failed to follow their own policies and were negligent when they fired him last year.

Fire officials say a Maine landlord could face jail time for code violations after a July fire that left an apartment building uninhabitable. Skowhegan Fire Chief Shawn Howard tells The Morning Sentinel that landlord Larry Savage is charged with criminal and civil violations that were present at the two-unit building before the July 20 blaze.

Police in Thailand say it's too soon to say who was behind bombing attacks that killed at least four people and wounded dozens. Tourists huddled in their hotel rooms and ducked inside buildings late Thursday and Friday morning, after bombs exploded one after another in at least four areas of Thailand, including popular beach cities.

Donald Trump says he would be OK with trying Americans suspected of terrorism at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Trump tells the Miami Herald that he wants to ensure the U.S. has a "safe place" to keep a "radical Islamic terrorist." Trump accuses President Barack Obama of releasing "terrible people" from the prison who shouldn't be let go.

A Belgian athlete has become sick after racing on polluted Guanabara Bay at the Olympic Games in Rio. She's the first sailor to fall ill from the polluted waters. Evi Van Acker reported feeling sick after Wednesday's races. Her coach says he believes Van Acker contracted a severe intestinal infection while training in Rio in July. Van Acker won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics.

A Chinese swimmer is the first athlete to test positive for banned substances at the Rio Olympics. The Chinese Swimming Association tells the Xinhua official news agency that the swimmer tested positive, but no specifics were given. The 18-year-old athlete finished fourth in the women's 100-meter butterfly Sunday, missing a bronze medal by nine-hundredths of a second.