Guests and staff at the Residence Inn an at the corner of Fore and Hancock streets in Portland were evacuated from hotel this afternoon after elevated levels of carbon monoxide were found in the building.

Seven people were treated at area hospitals.

Westbrook police have charged a 45-year-old registered sex offender with failing to notify authorities that he was moving into the city.

After foiling a smuggling operation last week, corrections officials scour the Cumberland County Jail for contraband in a bid to keep the inmates clean. Some of the pills and powder appeared to be Suboxone, as well as anti-anxiety medicine and unknown substances, said Capt. Steve Butts.

Police search dogs fanned out through Cumberland County Jail this morning to search for drugs after a spike in smuggling.

DNA evidence doesn’t support a mother’s account of a 2009 incident, a defense lawyer says.