AUGUSTA (AP) — A sendoff ceremony for soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan is set for this week. The Maine National Guard says the ceremony will honor four soldiers and their families who will deploy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. They serve with the 1968th Contingency Contracting Team, which contracts for supplies, services and construction […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s attorney general will join his colleagues from around the country who will witness arguments before the U. S. Supreme Court on the national health care overhaul this week. The court will hear three days of arguments on different parts of the Affordable Care Act starting today. Because of limited space in […]

BREWER (AP) — Police say they are unlikely to charge a couple of kids who apparently walked off with a laptop computer after walking in an open door at Brewer Middle School. Police say the 10- and 7- year-old boys went into the school on Saturday afternoon, explored for a while, and walked out with […]

FORT KENT (AP) — Fire tore through downtown Fort Kent early Sunday, destroying fives buildings and forcing 10 people out of their homes, authorities said. No one was injured. The fire broke out in one of three buildings that made up a furniture store, then spread to the other two, along with two adjacent buildings […]

LAMOINE (AP) — One of the four people shot outside a home in Lamoine earlier this month says the shootings stemmed from a dispute over payment for a truck paint job and had nothing to do with drugs. Joshua McKinney of Ellsworth tells the Bangor Daily News that his arrest last week for drug possession […]

PORTLAND — A crowded GOP field splits the vote, helping a tea-party backed conservative win the primary. Then an independent candidate creates a three-way race in which the Republican emerges with a victory in November. That was path Paul LePage followed to the Blaine House in 2010. And a similar path is unfolding in the U.S. […]

Summons Ronald Williams, 40, of 285 Birch Point Road, Wiscasset, March 12, charged with theft and furnishing liquor to a minor, at Leeman Highway and Middle Street. news@timesrecord.com

BRUNSWICK — More than 40 students in sixth grade math classes at Brunswick Junior High School will exhibit their art from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Community Room of the Mid Coast Senior Health Center, 58 Baribeau Drive. Admission to the public event is free. “After studying geometry for several weeks, students […]

Arrests Marvin Lovely, 50, no address listed, March 15, 7:04 a.m., charged with operating under the influence of drugs and possession of Schedule W drugs, on Topsham Fair Mall Road. Michelle J. Boucher, 44, of 69 Merrymeeting Road, Brunswick, March 12, 9:25 a.m., charged with criminal operating under the influence, on Route 196. news@timesrecord.com