OGUNQUIT — A public hearing regarding the final draft of Ogunquit’s 2018 Comprehensive Plan is scheduled to be held at noon Wednesday at the Dunaway Center in Ogunquit. This will be the second public hearing about the plan, with the previous one held on July 11. The town’s comprehensive plan was last modified in 2003 […]

Maine State Police and local police are investigating the death of an 8-year-old boy that was reported Tuesday evening in the central Maine town of Oakland. Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said in a statement that the boy was found dead by first responders inside the home at 19 Church […]

An 18-year-old University of Maine football player collapsed and died Tuesday afternoon during a preseason workout at Alfond Stadium in Orono. Darius Minor, from Locust Grove, Virginia, collapsed on the field at about 1:15 p.m. during a supervised light workout, the school said in a prepared statement. Neither members of the UMaine training staff nor […]

Traffic fines for most speeding violations in Maine are going down thanks to the chief judge of the Maine District Court and a study that was conducted by the state agency responsible for collecting speeding fines. The reduction in fines – about a 15 percent decrease – took effect Monday following a study by the […]

Portland police charged a 39-year-old man with aggravated assault after he allegedly slashed a man with a knife during a fight in the city’s Bayside neighborhood Monday afternoon. Robert Jerome of Portland was arrested after police found the 37-year-old victim with wounds to his chest and hands about 3 p.m. in the area of Alder […]

A Pennsylvania board recommended Bill Cosby be classified as a sexually violent predator, which would require the former TV star to attend at least monthly sex offender counseling — in prison and out — and police to post warning flyers throughout his neighborhood whenever he is freed. It is now up to a judge to […]

RANGELEY — A man has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a gathering early Wednesday at a local residence. Peter Michael Rocafort Stravecky, 19, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was arrested early Saturday on a felony charge of gross sexual assault, according to Rangeley police Sgt. Jared Austin. A conviction on the charge […]

Public works employees on Monday used an excavator to remove a whale carcass from Old Orchard Beach. The badly decomposed minke whale washed up Sunday morning about a mile south of the pier. The whale could not be removed from the beach Sunday because the equipment needed to move the heavy remains was not available. Town officials […]

A 19-year-old Florida man was found dead in Casco Bay near Peaks Island after he was reported missing Sunday from Great Diamond Island, police said. Maxwell Brown, of Boca Raton, Florida, was reported missing and possibly having a medical crisis at about 7 p.m., according to a statement released by the Portland Police Department. Residents, […]