BRUNSWICK — “I think I thought I was pretty untouchable,” said Barbara Hamlin, a guest speaker at a recent Go Red! dinner hosted by Mid Coast Hospital to promote women’s heart health. The hospital hosts a Go Red! dinner every other year. To each biennial dinner, the hospital’s Go Red! Committee invites a new audience to […]

BANGOR — The former head pharmacist for the Penobscot Indian Nation’s defunct mail- order pharmacy faces sentencing after pleading guilty to soliciting and taking kickbacks from Internet drug companies. Reginald Gracie Jr. pleaded guilty in U. S. District Court in Portland on Friday to receiving kickbacks and filing false tax returns. The 40-year-old Gracie, who lives […]

PORTLAND — Sen. Olympia Snowe’s primary challengers hope to ride conservative momentum driven by Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s strong showing in Maine’s caucuses. Libertarian tea party activist Andrew Ian Dodge and self-proclaimed conservative constitutionalist Scott D’Amboise both hope to draw support from followers of the libertarian congressman from Texas, as well as self-avowed conservative Rick Santorum. […]

BOWDOIN — The Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department arrested a Topsham man for operating under the influence of drugs after he crashed his vehicle into a shed Friday morning on Lewis Hill Road in Bowdoin. Deputy Matt Sharpe responded to the crash, which was reported at 9:46 a.m. at 284 Lewis Hill Road. No one was […]

HARPSWELL — Advocates for founding a charter school in Harpswell hope that a public forum Wednesday will kick off thoughtful discussion — and criticism — of the proposal. “We need support but also (need) to hear concerns,” said Scott Ruppert, who is a member of the Harpswell Charter School Initiative. “Airing that out and getting public […]

BATH — Bath police deployed a Taser to subdue a 44-year-old Bath man who allegedly refused to answer the door during a family fight early Sunday morning. When officers responded to an Oak Street apartment at 12:15 a.m. Sunday morning for reports of a family fight in progress, they heard “noises related to someone destroying the […]

BOWDOIN — The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department arrested a Topsham man for operating under the influence of drugs after he crashed his vehicle into a shed Friday morning on Lewis Hill Road in Bowdoin. Deputy Matt Sharpe responded to the crash, which was reported at 9:46 a.m. at 284 Lewis Hill Road. No one was injured […]

WEST BATH — The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department charged a Massachusetts man as a fugitive from justice for violating his conditions of release for prior sex offenses. The arrest came after a grandfather confronted John A. Rosa, 59, of Lexington, Mass., after he raised suspicions by parking in the West Bath Elementary School parking lot Thursday […]

LONDON ( AP) — News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch began talks today at his British newspapers amid a simmering staff revolt and U. K. police inquiries into alleged misconduct by journalists. The media mogul, who flew into Britain late Thursday on a private jet, was touring the newsroom of his scandal-hit tabloid The Sun […]