Police arrested a Medway man on drug possession charges Saturday following a motor vehicle crash the night before that killed his wife.  Maine State Police troopers arrested 31-year-old Joshua Bell after he was released from Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor on Saturday morning.  Bell was treated there for injuries suffered in the crash, Stephen […]

LEWISTON – A 10-year-old boy suffered a severe head injury Monday evening when he was hit by a car while crossing Sabattus Street, according to Lewiston police.  Lt. David St. Pierre said that just before 7 p.m., the boy was crossing Sabattus Street in front of the South of the Border restaurant when a vehicle […]

On a recent afternoon, Maria Fátima Cristina Cassema and her husband, Moniz Guenge Pumba, sat on a couch in a spacious living room in Portland’s West End. Their 3-year-old daughter had just settled in for a nap. And a warm breeze gently billowed the curtain of a nearby window in a room sparsely decorated with […]

MACHIAS — Lobsterman Charlie Smith has already paid a steep price to protect the right whale, an endangered species that he has never even seen in a long career spent at sea, much less found entangled in his fishing rope.  When the Jonesport lobsterman raises his left hand, it is clear that he has lost the ends of several […]

BATH – Bath may soon allow recreational marijuana retail shops downtown and along Route 1.  Last week, Bath city councilors gave preliminary approval to an ordinance allowing recreational stores and dispensaries in a wide swath through the center of the city along the north of the Route 1 corridor. Sales will be allowed in the […]

BRUNSWICK — When Brunswick Junior High School students Sora Reynolds and Olivia Marcotte approached the Maine Access Immigrant Network a year ago about raising money for new Mainers, they had no idea just how much the extra help would eventually be needed.  Reynold and Marcotte, rising freshmen, chose the network for their Girl Scouts “Silver […]

The Phippsburg Recreation Commission will sponsor the 6th Annual Boat Parade and Blessing of the Fleet 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, rain or shine. Spectators can gather at the Ridleys Landing Dock in Sebasco Harbor. Off site parking will be available at 54 Ridleys Landing Road. A shuttle will run to the Dock every 15 minutes from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. […]

Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell of Maine flatly denied allegations contained in court documents unsealed Friday that he had contact with a woman who said she was kept as a sex slave by financier Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, in a 2016 deposition, named Mitchell among a group of powerful men to whom she said […]

SIDNEY — At the leap of a sturgeon, paddlers gasped and turned to companions to ask, “Did you see it, too?” Until 20 years ago, sturgeon had been unable to make these impressive leaps around 7 Mile Island on the Kennebec River. The breach of the Edwards Dam in Augusta gave them more of the […]