AUGUSTA – State Sen. Dave Woodsome, R-Waterboro, has announced the addition of $12.1 million to Maine’s Unclaimed Property Fund. The property consists of financial assets that have gone unclaimed by their owners. The last known owner’s information is now available on the Maine Treasurer’s Website: https://maineunclaimedproperty.gov/ In total, the state treasurer has more than $249 million […]

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — An initial background check failed to detect a felony conviction that should have barred the man who killed five co-workers and wounded six other people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant from buying the gun. Months later, a second background check of Gary Martin found his 1995 aggravated assault conviction in […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ruth E. Carter is a black woman blazing a trail as a costume designer in a film industry with not many who look like her. But through her upcoming career achievement award and Oscar nomination for her Afro-futuristic wardrobes in the superhero film “Black Panther,” Carter believes she can “knock down” […]

RAYMOND — Josh Watson rushed from his truck cradling a basket of fish Sunday morning, ran up the stairs into the Sebago Lake Rotary Ice Fishing Derby weigh station in Raymond and slammed a mighty lake trout onto the measuring block. “It was 33 inches and a quarter when I measured him. I measured him […]

A Windham man was arrested on charges of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon after a 27-year-old was wounded by a gunshot early Saturday in Windham. Windham police said Keith Seglar, 30, was arrested on two counts of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon following a shooting incident on Emerson Drive. Police said they received […]

The number of pertussis cases remained high in Maine for the fourth month in a row in January, with the rate of infection continuing to soar above the national average. There were 55 cases of the highly contagious disease – commonly known as whooping cough – reported statewide last month compared to 24 in January […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — The Old Orchard Beach Police Department has released the names of individuals arrested or issued a summons from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20. • Dale Shawver, 58, of Old Orchard Beach, was arrested on a warrant and also charged with operating after suspension. • Enjeela Feroze, 36, of Old Orchard Beach, […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s elections board is holding a hearing Monday on ballot fraud allegations in the nation’s last undecided congressional election. The hearing, slated to last at least two days, will include the results of a monthslong investigation into allegations that a political operative tampered with mail-in ballots in a rural county. Republican Mark […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Heather Nauert, picked by President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations but never officially nominated, has withdrawn from consideration, the State Department said. Nauert, a State Department spokeswoman, said in a department statement that “the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Bowing to a backlash that had threatened to engulf an already blunder-plagued Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday reversed its decision to present four awards during the commercial breaks of this year’s Oscar broadcast. All 24 categories will be shown live, after all, at the […]