GAINESVILLE, Fla. Senior pastor Arao Amazonas said he wanted to wait until the next morning to leave Florida after a religious conference. But pastor Jose Carmo Jr. wanted to be back in time for the suburban Atlanta church’s Sunday morning service and led two vans up Interstate 75 toward Georgia. A few hours later, Amazonas […]

WASHINGTON Get ready to find out who the millionaires are behind this year’s presidential election. Shadowy outside groups funded by anonymous donors and working on behalf of candidates they support have pummeled Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and others for the past two months by spending millions of dollars on mostly negative TV ads that have […]

BANGOR (AP) — Bangor police are warning elderly residents of the city not to fall for the so-called “grandparent scam.” Police say a city man in his 70s was bilked out of $7,000 last week by a con artist pretending to be his grandson who called him and said he was in jail in Spain […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — Authorities have arrested two people they say have been spending counterfeit money in Maine. Authorities say since October, nearly $30,000 in counterfeit money from the same source has been passed in and around Maine. Police say Jamal Bradberry and Brittany Wildes of Westbrook were arrested last week for allegedly buying merchandise […]

BANGOR (AP) — A Maine man already behind bars on drug charges has pleaded not guilty to threatening to kill President Barack Obama. A lawyer for Leroy Dunn of Hampden, previously convicted of threatening Republican Maine Gov. Paul LePage, told a federal judge on Monday that his client has agreed to undergo a psychiatric examination. […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — Amid increasing scrutiny of Maine State Housing Authority spending, a legislative committee is taking up a bill aimed at making the agency’s director more accountable to its board and the governor. Republican Senate Majority Leader Jon Courtney’s bill is up for a hearing today before the Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research […]

WATERVILLE Unable to find any evidence missing toddler Ayla Reynolds was abducted, police on Monday pressed the three adults who were home with her on the night she disappeared to provide a full account of what happened. State and local detectives believe Justin DiPietro, the girl’s father, and two other adults know more than they’ve […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A coalition that’s pushing for a referendum to set a state minimum for renewable energy fell short of the voters’ signatures needed by Monday’s deadline to force a November vote. While Maine Citizens for Clean Energy missed the deadline to file the petitions with state election officials, the group promised to continue […]

FREEPORT — Kent Wilkinson recently donated has six 1940s-era model airplanes to Freeport Community Library to raffle as a fundraiser for children’s programming. Wilkinson constructed each of the vintage replicas. Tickets can be purchased for 50 cents each at the library during business hours. The raffle drawing for the individual planes will take place Feb. […]