BANGOR — Roxanne Quimby’s son is asking the Penobscot County commissioners to delay a planned decision Tuesday whether to support or oppose Quimby’s proposed 70,000-acre national park. Lucas St. Clair wrote in a letter dated Sunday to the commission that officials from Elliotsville Plantation Inc., the nonprofit foundation he describes as working to conserve land […]

OAKLAND (AP) — Independent U.S. Senate candidate Angus King has expressed support for The Bank of Maine, where he once served on the board of directors, and which was criticized by federal regulators for “unsafe and unsound” practices. King said Monday during a tour of Kennebec County that he stepped down in April after 18 […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — A Waterville soup kitchen that’s been serving up meals to the area’s homeless for more than three decades may be forced to close because of money troubles. Director Dick Willette said Monday he had planned to close the kitchen in the basement of Sacred Heart Church for good Sept. 1, but a […]

SANFORD (AP) — Officials with a Sanford nursing home where maggots were found on an elderly patient say a state inspection has found no problems. The Department of Health and Human Services inspected the Newton Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing after facility officials informed the state of the maggots found earlier this month. Newton Center […]

PORTLAND (AP) — An organization launched by activists including U2 singer Bono to fight poverty and disease around the world is taking an interest in the U.S. Senate race in Maine. The ONE Campaign kicks off its ONE Vote 2012 on Tuesday with an event at the Maine Historical Society. Mike Salamon, East Coast field […]

UNITY — Unity Raceway has closed for the season for financial reasons, although the annual Long John Late Model race scheduled for Oct. 14 is still on. George Fernald Jr., who leased the track from Ralph and Nancy Nason for five years before announcing that he would step down after this season, also said the […]

PORTLAND (AP) — FairPoint Communications’ yearslong decline in revenues should reverse itself in 2013, the company’s chief executive officer said Monday. The growth among business customers should begin exceeding the loss of residential landline customers later this year, Paul Sunu said during an interview in Portland. As a result, revenues in 2013 are expected to […]

HOWLAND — Maine State Police, Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office and the Maine Game Wardens on Saturday arrested three men they say brutally beat up two other men in town on Friday, leaving them with broken facial bones and missing teeth. Brandon Summerson, 21, of Enfield, and Howland residents John McKinnon, 21, and Henry McKinnon, 27, […]

HERMON — A Bangor woman injured in a three-vehicle collision on Union Street Saturday afternoon remains in the hospital in very serious condition, her son said Monday. “My mother is in the [Intensive Care Unit] at Eastern Maine Medical Center on life support,” Mike Savage of Bangor said of Mary Savage, 83, also of Bangor. […]

CORINTH — A local homeless teenager broke into the AE Robinson convenience store on Main Street early Monday and after grabbing some food and energy drinks, he left. Donald Page, 19, then returned to the store to call police and wait for them to arrive, Deputy Mark Lloyd of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office said […]