WELLS — The Wells Police Department has released the names of individuals arrested or cited from April 3 to April 14, 2018. • Michael Pierre, 27, of Sanford, was issued a summons for attaching false plates following a traffic stop on Sanford Road. • Anastacia Nugent, 23, of Wells, was arrested for an outstanding warrant […]

CARIBOU (AP) — Maine game wardens have found a new home for an orphaned black bear cub. WAGM-TV reports Game Warden Alan Dudley found the cub last week in Caribou when he responded to a crash that killed its mother. Dudley captured the cub in a dog kennel and brought it home. He then reached out to […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine legislators have endorsed a bill that could temporarily keep “high risk” individuals from possessing firearms. The Portland Press Herald reports the Judiciary Committee voted 7-4 Tuesday in support of the bill that allows police or family members to seek a community protection order against someone who presents an “immediate and present danger” of […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine lawmakers are going to decide whether they need to stay in Augusta a bit longer this year. Wednesday is the Legislature’s official last day, but the Senate gave the OK for lawmakers to stay five extra days. The House is set to vote Wednesday evening. Lawmakers have a mounting pile of […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s top election official says he has the money and plans to allow voters to rank candidates in the June primary. Democratic Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said Wednesday that his office will be able to pay for ranked-choice voting out of his office’s $735,000 budget for June primaries. The Supreme Judicial […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Lawyers for a high school student who fled his native Zambia and is suing to compete in a government-funded national poetry competition say the case is about an “educational benefit” for any public school student. Allan Monga of Deering High School won the Maine “Poetry Out Loud” contest. He applied for asylum […]

KENNEBUNK — Former First Lady Barbara Bush was among a group of people who walk their dogs on Gooch’s Beach and she did so frequently. To honor Mrs. Bush fellow dog walkers have organized a memorial at the beach set for noon on Sunday.  People are invited to bring their dogs, memories, stories, a flower, […]

HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban government on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as the sole candidate to succeed President Raul Castro in a transition aimed at ensuring that the country’s single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it. The certain approval of Diaz-Canel by members of the unfailingly unanimous […]