PORTLAND (AP) — Nearly 60 students from Portland are headed to West Virginia to help with charitable housing work. The junior class of Casco Bay High School will spend this week in West Virginia volunteering on Habitat for Humanity’s affordable housing projects, interviewing local residents who live in Habitat homes and taking photos for a […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Spring leaves Maine roads in their shabbiest shape all year. And a highway-improvement group is looking for help in finding Maine’s worst road of them all. The Maine Better Transportation Association has launched the 3rd Annual Worst Road in Maine Contest. As the weather warms and potholes appear, Maine drivers are asked […]

SCARBOROUGH ( AP) — The son of a survivor of the Titanic’s sinking says his mother would be overwhelmed and baffled by all the attention the Titanic is getting 100 years after it went down in the North Atlantic. Eighty-year-old Bradford Wellman of Scarborough tells Maine Today Media that his mother, Mary Lines Wellman, didn’t […]

BUCKFIELD ( AP) — A Maine company is supplying wooden keepsake Easter eggs that will take center stage during today’s 134th annual White House Easter Egg Roll. For the sixth straight year, the eggs are being manufactured by Wells Wood Turning & Finishing Inc., a wood products company in the central Maine town of Buckfield. […]

SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — Police in South Portland have arrested two men they say were hiding in a crawl space in an apartment after one of them stole prescription drugs from a neighbor. A witness told police they saw someone climbing in the window of an apartment on Broadway at about 2:20 p.m. Sunday. The […]

AUBURN ( AP) — A disabled Auburn woman has filed a complaint with the state Human Rights Commission claiming the Auburn Housing Authority wrongly denied her funding for a spare room she used for exercising. Pamela Grant, who suffers from multiple physical and mental impairments, told the commission the housing authority declined her request for […]

PORTLAND — Nearly two years after his arrest in the savage stabbing deaths of two men and a 10-year-old boy, Thayne Ormsby is going on trial on three counts of murder in a case that still reverberates through the small northern Maine town where the killings took place. Ormsby, 21, has pleaded not guilty and […]

BATH — The Bath Parks and Recreation Department plans to host a Summer Camp Fair from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday in the gymnasium at the Donald Small School. Representatives from more than 25 summer camps will available to answer questions and provide information about their offerings. A free door prize raffle will feature […]

WEST BATH — West Bath officials announced Friday that the Board of Selectmen will meet at 6:30 p.m. today, instead of the previously announced time of 5:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at the town hall. news@timesrecord.com