PORTLAND ( AP) — A Maine College of Art student will soon have her artwork plastered on nearly 1 million bottles of beer. Annie Mora is this year’s winner of the D. L. Geary Brewing Co.’s annual contest giving students a chance to design a label and packaging for the Portland brewery’s line of summer […]

UNITY (AP) — Maine gardeners will get a chance this week to learn how to make their gardens organic. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is hosting 35 workshops across the state on Wednesday to teach gardeners how to make the transition from conventional to organic gardens. The workshops are being held from 6 […]

BANGOR (AP) — A second Canadian man has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with an international telephone scam. Twenty-two-year-old Michael Angelo Giuffrida pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to transportation of stolen property and possession of stolen property in interstate commerce. His co-defendant, 21- year- old Nour- El- Dean Mouneimneh, […]

PORTER (AP) — Authorities say a New Hampshire teenager was killed and his two passengers were injured in a car crash in western Maine. Steve McCausland of the Maine Public Safety Department says the one-car crash occurred Sunday afternoon on Route 25 in Porter. He says 18-year-old Darren Duncanson of New Durham, N.H., lost control […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of one of the worst floods in Maine history. On April 1, 1987, major rivers overflowed their banks, ripping out bridges and roads, destroying homes and wrecking businesses. Experts called it a 500-year flood, while others called it the April Fools’ Day flood. But it was no […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A bipartisan legislative committee will take up a request for an investigation stemming from Democrats’ charge of a coverup concerning state social services computers. The Government Oversight Committee will meet on Tuesday to take up the request. Democrats last week accused the Republican administration of covering up information about malfunctioning Department of […]

LINCOLN (AP) — The pilot of a small experimental plane escaped serious injury when a gust of wind caught his aircraft at Lincoln Regional Airport, flipped it forward onto its nose and then onto its back. Pilot Brian Souers was landing the Glasair 1 just before 3 p.m. on Sunday when the wind took him […]

BANGOR ( AP) — Maine had the nation’s slowest rate of income growth last year, a sign that the state is recovering more slowly than the rest of the country from the economic downturn. Maine’s personal income grew 3.4 percent in 2011, well off the national average of 5.1 percent, according to figures released this […]

TOPSHAM — Carol Birch, an adult storyteller, will return to perform at the Friends of Topsham Library’s annual meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. “All adults are welcome to attend this meeting,” Melissa Hoy, president of the Friends, said in a release. “ Friends members are eligible to vote at the short business meeting that will […]

BATH — Culinary arts students at Bath Regional Career and Technical Center will host their final café day on Wednesday to benefit Autism Awareness Month. Lunch will be offered from noon to 1 p.m. at the center at 800 High St. The event is designed “to bring to light how individuals with autism can work […]