BATH — A Washington Street resident was startled late Sunday night when she heard someone enter her house through a side door and begin moving around. Bath police responded at 11:39 p.m. to a home on Washington Street near North Street, where a woman reported that she was watching a video when she heard an alarm […]

BRUNSWICK — A delusional Brunswick man with schizophrenia has been missing for more than two weeks and his worried family is asking the public for help. Jason Reil, 33, was last seen by his father on the morning of Jan. 12. Jason Reil had stopped by Doug Reil’s Brunswick home the night before and said […]

LISBON — Police expect to charge a 20-year-old Leeds man who allegedly tried to flee from a head-on crash on Route 9 Thursday as early as today for operating under the influence and other counts. The crash, reported at 4:22 p.m. Thursday, occurred on Route 9 on the Lisbon side of the town line with Sabattus, […]

BRUNSWICK — A tractor-trailer truck temporarily blocked Pleasant Street this morning after running over a fire hydrant while maneuvering to reverse directions, Brunswick police said. No one was injured as a result of the incident. The incident was reported at 10:03 a.m. Officer Patrick Mahar arrived on scene first, within about two minutes, according to Lt. Tom […]

LISBON — Police expect to charge a 20-year-old Leeds man who allegedly tried to flee from a head-on crash on Route 9 Thursday as early as today for operating under the influence and other counts. The crash, reported at 4:22 p.m. Thursday, occurred on Route 9 on the Lisbon side of the town line with Sabattus, according […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — The director of Maine Emergency Services says the state agency has launched its own investigation into the response to a fatal skiing accident at Sugarloaf resort. David Morse of Nova Scotia, Canada was seriously injured on Jan. 12 when he struck a tree on an easier trail. He died in an […]

ROME ( AP) — Costa Crociere SpA is offering uninjured passengers $ 14,460 apiece to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany when the captain deviated from his route. Costa, a unit of the world’s biggest cruise operator, the Miami-based Carnival Corp., also said […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad today, killing at least 32 people — half of them policemen who were guarding the march — in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. Police said the bomb exploded at 11 a.m. […]

BEIRUT ( AP) — Armed forces loyal to President Bashar Assad barraged residential buildings with mortars and machine- gun fire, killing at least 30 people, including a family of women and children during a day of sectarian killings and kidnappings in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, activists said today. The violence erupted Thursday, but […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the final three months of last year, the fastest growth in 2011. Americans spent more on cars and trucks, and companies built up their stockpiles. But growth in the October- December quarter — and all of last year — was held […]