Eleven Maine companies made this year’s Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing U.S. privately owned firms, including a newcomer that makes skin care products for men and a nine-time returning champion from the technology sector.  Maine’s showing on this year’s Inc. 5000 is up from 10 companies in 2018 but down from 12 in 2017. To be eligible […]

After finding housing for more than 200 people who have been staying in an emergency shelter at the Portland Expo, city officials said Wednesday they will meet a looming deadline to move all migrant families out of the professional basketball arena by the end of Thursday.  Officials also said they now hope to avoid moving […]

An Auburn man charged in the sexual assault and murder of a woman at a university in Fairbanks, Alaska, about 26 years ago pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday, according to his lawyer.  It was the second time in as many weeks that Steven H. Downs, 44, was arraigned.  Last week, he entered his […]

A Maine street preacher and abortion protester violated the state’s civil rights law when in Oct. 2015 he yelled loudly enough outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland that patients and workers were disrupted inside, a jury found Wednesday.  Brian Ingalls of Lisbon was sued by the state of Maine for violating the civil rights of people […]

BANGOR — A Maine game warden who was charged with assaulting a concertgoer is facing additional charges of unlawful sexual touching and disorderly conduct. The Bangor Daily News reports 41-year-old Jeremy Judd of Mechanic Falls was attending a concert on July 18 at Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion when the crimes are alleged to have occurred. Judd’s on paid administrative […]

The state’s top transportation official says next year’s entire highway repair program is at risk if lawmakers don’t return to Augusta in the next two weeks and vote to put a highway borrowing package on the November ballot. “We normally bid out $350 million for just our core highway and bridge program; if we don’t […]