PORTLAND ( AP) — Two Maine organizations are getting $325,000 in federal grants to help fight hunger. The two grants in Maine are among 27 grants totaling $4.8 million awarded nationwide by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Cultivating Community, a nonprofit agency in Portland that promotes community development through agriculture […]

SHAPLEIGH (AP) — A 24- year-old Springvale man is in critical condition after his allterrain vehicle flipped over on Square Pond in Shapleigh. The Maine State Warden Service says Gregory Horr was hospitalized with head injuries following the accident at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Warden Seth Powers told the Maine Sunday Telegram that a crack […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Occupy Maine’s tent city in Portland has come down, but the group is still trying to get its message out with a new TV show episode on the movement. Occupy Maine has finished producing its latest show, which is nearly 30 minutes long and focuses on Occupy after the Lincoln Park encampment […]

WINTERPORT ( AP) — It may be the dead of winter, but next summer’s schedule of Maine lobster boat races is coming into shape. The Maine Lobster Boat Racing Association says the season will kick off June 16 with races in Boothbay, followed the next day with races in Rockland. Additional races are planned in […]

STEVENS PASS, Wash. ( AP) — Well- equipped and familiar with the terrain, about a dozen expert skiers were making their way through a foot-and-a half of fresh snow when an avalanche hit them in an outof bounds area near a popular Washington ski resort. Three men were killed Sunday when they were swept about […]

EAST MACHIAS (AP) — Ron Paul gained ground but failed to overtake Mitt Romney in Saturday’s Republican presidential caucus in eastern Maine, which was held a week after the state Republican Party declared Romney the winner of Maine’s GOP caucuses. Paul gained 83 votes on Romney as a standing-room crowd packed Washington Academy, where Republicans […]

Freeport Summonses Conner A. Brooks, 22, of 163 Bartlett St., Lewiston, Feb. 14, 11:37 a.m., charged with possession of marijuana and operating a vehicle without a valid inspection certificate, at Lower Main Street and Varney Road. Jonathan M. Ravener, 21, of 11 Bath Road, Bath, Feb. 14, 12:04 p.m., charged with being a minor transporting […]

BATH — Bath police used a license plate found at the scene of a minor car crash to identify and then charge the operator with failing to report the accident. Andrew L. Jones, 40, of 238 Adams Road, Brunswick, was summonsed on Feb. 13 and charged with failure to notify police of an accident by quickest […]

BRUNSWICK — Resilient Communications Corp. (RCC), a data security company located at Brunswick Landing, has been awarded a $5,000 TechStart Grant from Maine Technology Institute to help fund intellectual property filings related to the company’s new portable data center facilities known as multi-mission platforms (MMPs). The grant is part of $20,000 awarded by MTI, with the […]