HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu leaders approved a measure Wednesday to limit prices that ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft can charge during peak demand, a cap that the companies say would be the first restriction of its kind in the United States. The measure would prevent “surge pricing” if increased rates are higher than the […]

AUGUSTA — For the first time since killing and dismembering his father four years ago, Leroy Smith III is eligible for a glimpse of the world outside a state institution. A judge has approved a request by Smith to be absent from Riverview Psychiatric Center for up to three hours at a time with one-to-one […]

Residents of Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel will vote Tuesday on a $48.1 million education budget for Regional School Unit 21. The budget, which is up 5.1 percent, includes the peak year of payments on the debt from renovation projects at Kennebunk High School and two district elementary schools. School officials anticipate debt service payments will […]

Two people called Rockland police to report statements a local man made about school shootings and guns in the months before he triggered a districtwide school lockdown last week, dispatch records show. Brandon Luzzi, 62, of Thomaston Street continues to undergo mental health evaluation and treatment and has not been charged with a crime. He […]

The man accused of killing a Somerset County Sheriff’s deputy took a bottle of water and a pack of Old Gold cigarettes when he robbed a Norridgewock convenience store the night Cpl. Eugene Cole was slain, according to a newly released 911 transcript. The transcript, released Wednesday by the Office of the Maine Attorney General, […]

Details of a long-planned project to widen the Maine Turnpike between South Portland and Falmouth show that some parts of the heavily traveled highway will exceed capacity within seven years if the work is not done. That information comes from a citizen advisory committee charged with looking at alternatives to ease congestion on the 11-mile stretch of […]

AUGUSTA — Last week, disqualified U.S. Senate hopeful Max Linn took his campaign to the streets by dotting Maine’s landscape with political signs. Now, Linn and his supporters are turning to the courts – once again – in hopes of legitimizing his embattled candidacy. On Monday, Linn’s campaign announced that 14 supporters had sued in U.S. District […]

BRUNSWICK — Daniel Gagnon, a 26-year-old Brunswick security guard who had been missing since May 30, was found dead during a police search Wednesday. Gagnon’s body was found in dense woods off River Road just before 11 a.m. by Maine Warden Service Cpl. Dave Chabot and K-9 Ruby, according to a statement by Brunswick police […]

SANFORD — Shawn Young, his wife and their 5-year-old son were standing in a spot tucked away near the third base bullpen Friday night when a sedan came roaring around the alleyway — a walking path really, said Young — at Goodall Park. The maroon Honda had volleyed through the main gate and was on its […]