HALLOWELL ( AP) — Police say a man attending his son’s basketball game at an elementary school went to the cafeteria and stole $40 in student lunch money. Police say 46- year- old Christopher Cope of Dresden told them that he needed the money to buy kerosene to heat his home. Authorities say Cope was […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — A former bookkeeper at an Augusta dental practice has been sentenced to six months in jail for embezzling about $120,000 from the business. Celine Davis was also sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation and ordered to have no contact with anyone who works at Augusta Orthodontics. The 43- year- old […]

WOODLAND (AP) — State police are hoping a $ 40,000 reward will bring in tips that lead them to the person who killed a Woodland man nearly four years ago. The body of 56- year- old Darrel Smith was found by his wife in February 2008 inside the small sawmill he operated adjacent to his […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — A legislative committee has endorsed a bill that would bar Maine school districts from expelling students without giving them a time line or plan for returning to class. Sen. Justin Alfond says Maine is one of the few states where students can be expelled without an option for getting back in […]

GARDINER ( AP) — Officials are warning potential entrepreneurs to be wary of certain business investment schemes, especially “work at home” ventures. State Securities Administrator Judith Shaw said Tuesday that her agency is available to help aspiring business people make sound decisions about business investment opportunities, especially “ work at home” ventures marketed over the […]

KENNEBUNK (AP) — Central Maine Power Co. has received approval from Kennebunk to upgrade the power grid, the last major hurdle in municipal permitting for the massive project. The 5.5 miles of 345,000- and 115,000-volt electrical lines in Kennebunk will be part of the $1.4 billion Maine Power Reliability Program, which involves 450 miles of […]

GOULDSBORO ( AP) — Officials say a body found on an eastern Maine island on Jan. 4 was that of a 57-yearold man who was reported missing last month. The medical examiner’s office said the body found on Stave Island in Gouldsboro was that of Wayne Hodgkins of Sullivan. Police said the cause of death […]

PORTLAND Critics of a massive residential development in the Moosehead Lake region urged the state supreme court on Tuesday to send the case back to Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission, while a lawyer for the agency argued that the panel acted within its discretion in approving the sprawling project. Phil Worden, a lawyer representing two […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — Dive teams from the Maine Warden Service and the state police will begin searching bodies of water around Waterville today for a toddler who’s been missing since December. Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said the teams will continue searching for 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds. The girl was reported missing from her […]

Arrests Adrian McComb, 34, of 159 Enfield Road, Lincoln, Jan. 8, 11:45 p.m., charged with operating after suspension and violation of conditions of released; also summonsed for speeding, on Bypass Drive in Topsham. George Elwell III, 24, of 120 Fosters Point Road, West Bath, Jan. 7, 5:37 p.m., charged on a Cumberland County warrant for […]