It felt a little different celebrating Christmas on a Sunday. Some of us got to enjoy a three-day holiday too. Monday off was like an extra Christmas present. We got the opportunity to sleep in Monday morning, and a chance to make a hot breakfast. You also could take the whole family out for breakfast, […]

PORTLAND — A Topsham woman has been charged with misusing tens of thousands of dollars from her brother-in-law’s veterans benefits account. In 2003, Marsha Jacobs, 64, was appointed the fiduciary of benefits from the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs to her brother-in-law. She allegedly used the money to build a $ 106,000 addition to her […]

BATH — Law enforcement officials in Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties have a new tool to help in the fight against domestic violence in the form of new panic alarms. Wiscasset-based Northeast Security Systems donated four alarm units to the two counties and agreed to cover the cost of monitoring them, according to Steve Edmondson, domestic violence […]

WATERVILLE — A 20-month-old girl who vanished a week before Christmas after being put to bed in her father’s home was taken away and didn’t walk out on her own, investigators said Monday as they announced the largest reward ever offered in the state to help find a missing person. It marked the first time since […]

BATH — Since the Navy formally closed Brunswick Naval Air Station on May 31 — and, really, as the sailors slowly shipped out during the past six years — residents of the Midcoast region have noticed the dramatic void previously filled in many areas of the community by the sailors, officers and others affiliated with the Navy. But […]

HARPSWELL — Five Maine fishermen are facing federal conspiracy charges after allegedly overharvesting thousands of pounds of sea scallops off the coast of New Jersey. Robert E. Hersey Jr., 41, of Harpswell, was among five men named in a Dec. 16 criminal complaint filed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA), which manages sea scallop […]

BRUNSWICK — One of the few clues to the identity of a man found dead near a set of train tracks in Brunswick last Thursday was the presence of a catheter, a top official with the state medical examiner’s office said Tuesday. Mark Belserene, administrator of the state medical examiner’s office, said the man’s body has left […]

BRUNSWICK — 44-year-old man was taken to Mid Coast Hospital Friday night following a rear-end collision on the Route 196 on-ramp to Route 1 northbound. Eric Farnham, 44, of 15 Mountain Road in West Bath, driving a 1991 GMC pick-up truck, rear-ended a 2005 Ford driven by 42-year-old William Munsey of Topsham, Brunswick Police Sgt. Russ […]

HONOLULU ( AP) — The Obama administration is considering whether to allow Yemen’s outgoing president into the United States for medical treatment, as fresh violence and political tensions flare in the strategically important Middle Eastern nation. A senior administration official said President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s office requested that he be allowed to receive specialized treatment […]