LEWISTON ( AP) — Maine’s second-largest city has a new mayor, with the winner garnering just 70 votes more than his dead opponent. Bob Macdonald garnered 2,543 votes in Tuesday’s runoff election, compared to 2,473 votes for the late Mark Paradis. The results are unofficial. Paradis died of complications from pneumonia on Friday two days […]

Maine electric rates going down AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Rates are going down for residential and small commercial electric customers in Maine. The Maine Public Utilities Commission approved new rates Tuesday that will result in prices going down more than 6 percent in the Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro Electric service areas. The PUC […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ren Bishop is one of many American drivers who texts, tweets and talks on her cellphone while she’s behind the wheel — and thinks it should be up to drivers to use their discretion when it comes to safety. Though she admits thumbing her phone while driving is a bad habit, […]

LIEGE, Belgium ( AP) — The body of a woman has been found in the garage of a grenade- lobbing gunman, bringing to four the number of people killed in an attack in the city of Liege, officials said today. Liege Prosecutor Daniele Reynders said the body of a woman in her forties was discovered […]

AUGUSTA Lawmakers dug into an exhaustive discussion about the Department of Health and Human Services budget Tuesday and emerged no closer to consensus on the origins and magnitude of a looming shortfall. The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee attempted to gain a better grasp on the DHHS budget ahead of a series of public hearings this week […]

RICHMOND — The Board of Selectmen will meet today at 6 p.m. at the town office to address a short agenda before beginning a budget workshop. Selectmen are scheduled to receive a library update from Victoria Boundy, the town’s director of community and business development, and discuss the Umberhine Library’s ongoing efforts. The board also […]

BOWDOINHAM Bowdoinham firefighters responded to a structure fire on Wildes Road early Friday morning. They not only extinguished the fire before it destroyed the home, but rescued the homeowner from a second-story porch. Fire Chief Jack Tourtelotte said his department received a report of a structure fire with a woman trapped on the balcony at […]

Erin Minet’s Blueberry Hill Nursery School is one of Brunswick’s newest child care facilities for 3-, 4- and 5- year-olds. She opened the school about 14 months ago. She currently has 20 children but is licensed for 40. The program operates from 9 a.m. until noon each weekday. Now that you know a little bit […]

Arrests Stephen Mark Flewelling, 32, of 15 Getchell Road, Dresden, Nov. 21, 10:57 a.m., charged with failure to appear, at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset. Raymond George Taylor IV, 23, of 33 Long St., Brunswick, Nov. 21, 3:09 a.m., charged with operating with a suspended license, on Main Street, Westbrook..