KITTERY (AP) — Kittery, Maine, can boast something that no other New England community has: A life-sized Smokey Bear. A statue of the national icon created to remind people to prevent forest fires is being unveiled Thursday at the Kittery Visitors Center as Smokey the Bear celebrates his 68th birthday. The statue was installed by […]

YORK (AP) — A worker for a York paving company has been electrocuted after touching a dump truck that was in contact with live power wires. Authorities say 42-year-old Christopher Dixon was standing behind a gravel truck at about 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday when the truck touched the power lines. Rescue workers at first couldn’t […]

BANGOR — A 4-year old boy who was seriously injured in an ATV accident on Monday has died of his injuries, according to the Maine Warden Service. Tanner Morse of Searsport died at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor late Tuesday night, according to a news release from Cpl. John MacDonald. Morse was injured when […]

The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University reported Tuesday that the average temperature in the 12-state region was 49.9 degrees from January through July. That’s the warmest seven-month period since 1895, the year systematic record keeping began. While it makes for sweaty nights, not everybody’s complaining. “The heat is definitely a blessing for us […]

FAIRFIELD (AP) — A 75-year-old Waterville woman involved in a car crash last month in Fairfield has died. Anne Gagnon’s daughter, Carol, told the Kennebec Journal that her mother was pronounced dead Sunday. Police saidAnne Gagnon drove into the path of a truck on July 26 at the Nye’s Corner intersection. They said she stopped […]

ALFRED (AP) — A Maine man authorities said had an assault rifle, a shotgun and four handguns as well as newspaper clippings about the fatal theater shootings in Colorado in his car when he was stopped for driving 112 miles per hour has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. A state judge on Tuesday […]

BANGOR (AP) — A Fort Fairfield man who worked with an Aroostook County afterschool program has pleaded guilty to child pornography possession charges. Jake Rogeski was held without bail pending his sentencing after entering his plea Tuesday in federal court in Bangor. He faces up to 10 years in prison at yet to be scheduled […]

BOSTON (AP) — A Maine man reported missing by his wife after he did not return from a sailing trip on Casco Bay has been located. The Coast Guard says 79-year-old Albert Kelsey was spotted early Wednesday morning. His 20-foot vessel had apparently run aground at low tide and got stuck in the mud. He […]