Maine State Police were called to a home on Route 115 in Windham on Wednesday afternoon to investigate the death of an infant. Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said the child was 6 months old. He did not know the infant’s gender. McCausland said he did not have any additional […]

More Mainers have suffered from the flu this season than last, but fewer cases have resulted in hospitalization, according to updated state statistics. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday that 8,519 Mainers have tested positive for the flu through March 30 in the 2018-19 flu season and 880 have been hospitalized. […]

AUGUSTA — The Mills administration plans to begin placing the overdose reversal drug Narcan in public buildings as part of the state’s efforts to address the opioid crisis. Gordon Smith, Maine’s newly appointed director of opioid response, discussed the plans Wednesday during the first meeting of Gov. Janet Mills’ Prevention and Recovery Cabinet, which is […]

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — A judge will consider motions filed by lawyers for Kevin Spacey, who’s charged with groping an 18-year-old man on Nantucket in 2016. The Oscar-winning former “House of Cards” actor won’t be present for Thursday’s hearing at Nantucket District Court. Spacey’s attorneys have been seeking to preserve phone and electronic records between […]

The federal government has approved Maine’s Medicaid expansion, and more than 16,000 people have been granted health coverage under the program since January, the Mills administration announced Wednesday. Maine voters approved expansion in November 2017 by a 59 to 41 percent margin, but Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ predecessor, former Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, blocked […]

AUGUSTA — Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill Tuesday to allow Maine homeowners to continue receiving credits on their electricity bills for excess solar energy they generate and feed to the power grid. By signing the bill, Mills both ended the planned phase-out of the credit system for excess solar energy and rescinded a related requirement that […]

BIDDEFORD — On Tuesday, the Biddeford City Council took another step forward in developing its mill district, and continuing the growing resurgence of the city. The council approved a master plan development agreement for 3 Lincoln St., the former site of a waste incinerator that the city purchased in 2012. The agreement allows BE Fitler, […]

BIDDEFORD — The University of New England has announced that Dr. Jonathan H. Millen, the current dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, will become the next dean of UNE’s College of Arts and Sciences, starting July 1. Millen returns to the New England area after 28 […]

In 2011, 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen’s mother picked him up at school in Illinois, took him to the zoo and a water park, and then killed herself at a hotel, leaving a note in which she said her son was fine but that no one would ever find him. On Wednesday, a 14-year-old boy came forward […]