CLINTON (AP) — A reserve Clinton police officer has been placed on administrative leave after being arrested on six charges, including one count of domestic violence assault. Town Manager Aaron Chrostowsky says Derek Levasseur was charged earlier this month with five counts of simple assault and one count of domestic violence assault and was place […]

BELGRADE — After a meeting with concerned residents, Pan Am Railways has agreed to withdraw its push for a fee hike against property owners on private roads that have railroad crossings. Rep. Dennis Keschl, R-Belgrade, said more than a dozen people showed up at North Belgrade Community Center on Tuesday evening to meet with Pan […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree has filed her first personal financial disclosure report since marrying S. Donald Sussman, a wealthy financier and philanthropist. The Democrat, who previously had one of the shortest personal financial disclosure reports in Congress, needed an extension this year and filed a 12-page report this week, filled mostly […]

VASSALBORO (AP) — Police say a Warren man has died after the motorcycle he was operating struck a camper being towed on Route 3 in Vassalboro. State police say 62-year-old Paul Galipeau was driving his Harley-Davidson west at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday when he struck the camper being towed by an eastbound van that was […]

BANGOR (AP) — A Maine man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for making and tossing Molotov cocktails into an Indian Island home. Alex Glossian was also sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to three years of probation and ordered to pay more than $9,000 in restitution for damage […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A charitable road race from Ogunquit to Portland that raises money for the families of Maine military personnel killed in combat is coming to an end because of a dispute between the original organizers. The Run for the Fallen will be held for the fifth and last time on Sunday. Founder John […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Forest Service rangers will receive an award for their video about protecting property from wildfires. The rangers will receive a Telly Award on Thursday for their video, “Defensible Space: It could save your home from a wildfire.” Telly Awards honor film and video productions, groundbreaking web commercials and outstanding local, regional […]

SEGUIN ISLAND — Beverly Ramsey has long imagined and dreamed of living at the Seguin Island Lighthouse, but when she and her husband, David, arrived there this year to serve as the island’s caretakers for the summer, she had an almost uncontrollable urge to leave. “I was so excited to come here,” she said Tuesday, […]

BAR HARBOR — The second dead whale in as many months washed up near the coast of Hancock County and has been towed to College of the Atlantic. Local fishermen discovered the deceased sperm whale near Schoodic Point on Tuesday. The whale is secured to an offshore dock near the Bar Harbor college, and the […]

Independent former Gov. Angus King said Tuesday negotiations surrounding a trade agreement that could lead to the elimination of a tariff on athletic footwear should be put on hold until the economy improves and that the tariff shouldn’t be removed at all. King, one of six candidates vying to replace Olympia Snowe in the U.S. […]