SABATTUS (AP) — A Republican Maine House candidate who called a Florida high school shooting survivor a “skinhead lesbian” and called another a “bald-faced liar” is quitting the race. Leslie Gibson was widely criticized for insulting the survivors of last month’s shooting, which killed 17 people.  Gibson said Friday he’s walking away with his “head […]

CHESUNCOOK TOWNSHIP (AP) — Forest rangers say a fire leveled a century-and-a-half-old inn in northern Maine. Firefighters and Maine forest rangers say they responded Saturday morning to a fire that destroyed the Chesuncook Lake House. The inn was built in 1864 as a farmhouse and boarding house supplying logging operates in northern Maine. It was […]

BELFAST (AP) — A judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for a woman accused of beating her 10-year-old daughter to death. WGME-TV reports that Stockton Springs resident Sharon Carrillo will be examined at Riverview Psychiatric Facility. She is scheduled to be arraigned April 2. Carrillo’s lawyer Chris MacLean says that his client has a severe learning […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Department of Transportation is reassuring the public that it’s safe to travel bridges designed by a company involved in the design of a Miami pedestrian bridge that collapsed in a deadly accident that killed at least six people. The Bangor Daily News reports that Maine transportation department spokesman Ted Talbot says the […]

AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention encourages women to speak to their healthcare provider about getting a Pap test. A combination of regular screening and the HPV vaccine could prevent 93 percent of all cervical cancer, according to the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Statistics show that 60 percent of […]