ORONO (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old girl lost consciousness and required hospitalization after crashing a snowmobile. Game wardens say the girl was a passenger on a snowmobile being driven by her 16- year-old cousin in Orono on Sunday when the vehicle hit a snowbank and threw the older youth off. The young girl was […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the state must pay its bills before it borrows more money. In his weekend radio address, the governor follows up on his State of the State speech last week. In that speech, he said the Legislature must tackle a $220 million dollar revenue shortfall now. This weekend, […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says a 22-year-old man is in stable condition after being shot in the leg by officers who were trying to apprehend him in Portland. Officials say Arien L’Italien of Biddeford fired a handgun at members of the U.S. Marshals Maine Violent Offender Task Force as they attempted […]

WATERVILLE ( AP) — Some of the blood found in a home where a missing toddler was last seen six weeks ago belonged to the little girl, an official said. State Police spokesman Steve McCausland on Sunday would not say how much of Ayla Reynolds’ blood was found in her father’s home in Waterville, where […]

BRUNSWICK A 27- year- old man was charged with illegal possession of 30 different prescription pills after police responded to the Knights Inn on Pleasant Street last week to evict him for not paying his bill. Brunswick patrol officers arrived at the hotel at 133 Pleasant St. early in the afternoon of Jan. 23 after […]

Arrest Benjamin J. Whispell, 24, of 224 Davis Road, Durham, Jan. 19, 11:14 a.m., charged with violating condition of release, unlawful possession of scheduled drug and on a Cumberland County warrant for failure to appear on an original charge of violation of condition of release, on Durham Road. Summonses David R. Wilson, Sr., 39, of […]

PHIPPSBURG A dog in the road is being blamed for a two- vehicle crash on Route 209 in Phippsburg on Saturday. According to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department, no one required hospitalization following the crash, which was reported at 1:47 p.m. Chief Deputy Brett Strout said Linda Kamphausen, 49, of 4632 Post Road, East […]

WEST BATH A Harpswell man was arrested Sunday night after hitting a utility pole on Fosters Point Road while allegedly under the influence of alcohol, according to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department. The crash was reported at 7:33 p.m. Chief Deputy Brett Strout said Scott Rand, 33, of 167 Dingley Island Road, Harpswell, was […]

BRUNSWICK A 28- year- old man who allegedly pulled a folding knife from his waistband and refused to drop it was Tasered by Brunswick police Friday afternoon in the Hannaford supermarket parking lot. Officers held Nicholas Hersom, 28, of 11 Elwell Lane, Brunswick, at gunpoint and repeatedly shouted at him to drop the knife, but […]

Arrest Richard Leonard, 68, of 114 Main St., Jan. 21, 10:14 p.m., charged with operating under the influence of liquor, on Main Street.