AUGUSTA (AP) — An attorney for a former Chelsea selectwoman accused of accepting kickbacks from a plowing contractor in exchange for getting him work with the town says he is working with federal prosecutors on a possible settlement. Attorney Leonard Sharon was in Kennebec County Superior Court on Wednesday with Carole Swan, the former board […]

TOPSHAM — Happy Paws @ Unleashed, 7 Second St., will host a special pet microchipping event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Microchips to help locate missing pets will be available for $ 25 per pet. For more information, call 725-7990 or 329-2483. news@timesrecord.com

BRUNSWICK — Two of Brunswick’s four state legislators will hold “office hours” Saturday morning to speak with residents at the Little Dog Coffee Shop on Maine Street. Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick, and Rep. Charlie Priest plan to be at the shop from 10 a.m. to noon. Gerzofksy represents Brunswick, Freeport, Harpswell and Pownal. Priest represents […]

The year 1862 will open with the Union Army of the Potomac under Major Gen. McClellan facing popular and political pressure to engage in major combat with its Confederate foes. But McClellan has come down with typhoid and is ill in bed. President Abraham Lincoln is increasingly anxious to engage Southern secessionists in battle even […]

Call it a playground for Bambi and G-Men, where imaginary criminals are hunted and deer are the spectators. The 547-acre FBI academy, where some of the nation’s best marksmen fire off more than 1 million bullets every month, happens to be one of the safest places for deer during hunting season. The property on the […]

The owner of the largest trove of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic is putting the vast collection up for auction as a single lot in 2012, the 100th anniversary of the world’s most famous shipwreck. More than 5,500 items including fine china, ship fittings and portions of hull that were recovered from the ocean liner […]

It was a perfect day for skiing at Sugarloaf on fresh powder left by a December snowstorm the day before. But something seemed amiss as Rick Tonge and his son rode a chairlift up the mountain. First he heard some banging and clanging. Then the lift stopped and started several times. As they dangled about […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber targeting Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq killed 30 people, just hours after a wave of bombings hit Shiite areas in Baghdad and killed 27 others, officials said today. The coordinated attacks targeting Shiites bore the hallmarks of Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaida and added to a deepening sectarian crisis […]

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The parents of an eighth grader who was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas school are demanding to know why officers took lethal action, but police said the boy was brandishing — and refused to drop — what appeared to be a handgun and that the officers acted correctly. […]