The caseworker who placed Kendall Chick in the home where she was murdered had her professional license revoked after a state regulatory board found that she had falsified records.  But Heather J. Campbell insists she did nothing wrong and said she has become a scapegoat for the 4-year-old’s death.  An Aug. 3 decision by the state’s […]

FARMINGTON — One firefighter is dead and at least six other people were seriously injured when a powerful propane explosion leveled a new building after crews arrived to investigate the smell of gas there on Monday morning, officials said. The Route 2 building, which houses a nonprofit agency that serves people with disabilities, was evacuated […]

BRUNSWICK —When Carolyn Brady rules the world, you won’t see her doing it in a baby blue, sequined dress. Nor is that what she will wear when she walks across the Miss America stage this December.  While the 22-year-old-Miss Maine does, in fact want to both rule the world and take home the Miss America […]

Brindi made her way to our shelter on our last rescue transport from Puerto Rico. This super sweet young lady was found with her three puppies on the side of a road in a national forest and quickly warmed up to her rescuers.   Brindi was adopted once after she arrived in Maine, but returned within a few days […]

Sen. Susan Collins, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, announced Thursday that the full committee advanced the fiscal year 2020 defense funding bill with provisions she championed that will benefit Bath Iron Works. The bill now heads to the full Senate.   “The value and importance of our naval assets […]

WISCASSET – Wiscasset Town Manager John O’Connell last week removed T.J. Merry from his role as the town’s fire chief.  O’Connell said Merry neglected to obtain required permits from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection prior to an Aug. 4 controlled burn of a former Route 1 business for firefighter training purposes.  O’Connell said Merry “bears the responsibility for any deficiencies” and […]

AUBURN — Christopher King has walked around for years with the reminder of a night gone very wrong.  “It was a bad party night — I let some inexperienced person handle a tattoo gun,” said King, 32. “I was shocked when I woke up with bandages all over me and started peeling them off. ‘What […]