A New York woman will spend the next four and a half years in prison for her role in a drug deal and shootout that happened more than three years ago in the parking lot of the Augusta Walmart.  Diana Davis, 32, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced Monday to 54 months in prison by […]

A Kennebunkport man who won big on a scratch ticket in May is again a lottery winner.  Back in the spring, Robert Stuart was acting on a whim when he spent $25 on a scratch ticket at the Hannaford in Kennebunk and won $1 million. Four months later, he again picked a winner when he bought another […]

LITCHFIELD — Rachel Stevenson tied her stepdaughter’s hair into a ponytail and buckled a horseback riding helmet onto Charlotte Sirois’ head. The 6-year-old from Brunswick also wore kneepads and a chest and shoulder guard.  Charlotte was ready for some mutton bustin’.  The events at the Litchfield Fair was a crowd-pleaser Sunday. Audience members of all ages […]

With help from state Republican Party leaders, it appears that U.S. Sen. Susan Collins won’t face a primary challenge after all.  Derek Levasseur of Fairfield said Monday that he would quit the race because his party’s elite, including former Gov. Paul LePage, squeezed his five-month-old campaign so hard that it wasn’t worth pursuing it any […]

Central Maine Power’s top customer service representative defended the company’s bills Monday as accurate and again blamed the cold winter of 2017-18 and supply price hikes for thousands of high customer bills.  Linda Ball, CMP’s vice president for customer service, told WGAN radio that two reports issued last week confirmed that the utility’s bills were […]

The Maine State Aquarium has reopened after being forced to close last month because of an unexpected problem involving its filtration system.  The Maine Department of Marine Resources made the announcement Saturday, tweeting that the aquarium in West Boothbay Harbor would continue to operate during its normal business hours through Sept. 29, when it will […]

Marjorie Helton, 10 months, munches on an apple at Rocky Ridge Orchard in Bowdoin on Monday. On vacation with her family from Tennessee, it was Marjorie’s first-time apple picking and her first trip to Maine. This early in September, the Paula Reds are the ripest apples, according to owner Brad Sprague, and the Macintosh will […]