Maine’s Amy Allen is starting out the new year on top. Allen co-wrote the song “Without Me” by Halsey, which has reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 pop music chart, the music magazine reported Monday. It’s Allen’s first No. 1, not bad considering she’s only been writing pop songs full time for less than […]

HALLOWELL — Under pressure to get to the bottom of why customers continue to have billing problems with Central Maine Power, state utility regulators decided Tuesday to open a formal investigation of the company’s metering and billing systems and practices. The decision by the Maine Public Utilities Commission begins a process of legal discovery, which […]

BIDDEFORD — The Maine Community Foundation’s new Community Broadband Grant Program has awarded $15,000 in a grant to the city of Biddeford to be used to create a Broadband Plan that will help Biddeford move toward becoming a “Smart Community.” It is part of $130,000 in grants awarded to 11 communities across Maine and the program aims to […]

Officials at the Portland International Jetport say the federal government shutdown hasn’t affected operations at the airport, but some workers are concerned that a prolonged shutdown could delay critical safety training, especially for air traffic controllers. At noon Monday, a steady flow of passengers went through security screening at the jetport, with barely a line […]

FARMINGTON — The trial of a former Jay charged with killing his girlfriend began Monday with the prosecutor focusing on the defendant’s obsessive jealousy and the defense pointing to mental illness and deafness as factors in the woman’s beating death. James “Ted” Sweeney, 58, formerly of Jay, is accused of killing Wendy Douglass with a […]

A local man wanted in connection with a stabbing in Skowhegan on New Year’s Day was arrested Monday in his home state of Rhode Island. Skowhegan Police Chief David Bucknam said detectives from the Newport, Rhode Island, police department arrested Christopher Monroe, 32, on Monday on an arrest warrant written by Skowhegan police. Bucknam said Detective Michael […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taxpayers who are owed refunds will be paid on time, despite the government shutdown that has closed many federal agencies, a Trump administration official said Monday as concern mounted over the risk that the payments could be delayed. The acting director of the White House budget office, Russell Vought, said customary rules […]

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency last weekend discovered evidence of two methamphetamine labs, including one that was found when Penobscot Nation Police responded to the death of a 38-year-old woman on Indian Island. On Saturday, tribal police were called to a home on the island near Old Town after the woman died. While in the […]

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty Monday to groping an 18-year-old busboy in 2016 in the first criminal case brought against the disgraced actor following a string of sexual misconduct allegations that crippled his career. Spacey’s court appearance came more than a year after former Boston TV anchor Heather Unruh accused the […]