Cindy Meserve stood in front of the Maine Public Utilities Commission on Monday night with 15 pages of electric bills in hand, some as high as $4,395 for a single month’s worth of service, that CMP can’t explain despite months of complaints, phone calls and emails.  The problem came to light when CMP tried to […]

BELFAST — A Stockton Springs man has pleaded guilty to murdering his 10-year-old stepdaughter, and prosecutors said Monday they plan to take his wife to trial on the same charge. Julio Carrillo, 52, changed his plea Monday in a hearing at the Waldo County Judicial Center in Belfast. He did not reach an agreement about prison time […]

OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. — On an exclusive Connecticut peninsula, where signs warn outsiders to stay off private roads, eight multimillion-dollar homes with sprawling yards along the Long Island Sound are poised to become eligible for taxpayer-funded disaster aid.  That’s despite the fact that the Fenwick neighborhood of Old Saybrook is in a potentially perilous position, hovering where the Connecticut […]

A bad year for right whales: 2 more found dead off Canada  By The Associated Press undefined  The Canadian government says two more rare North Atlantic right whales have been found dead in the country’s waters, worsening a disastrous year for the marine mammals.  Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the causes of the animals’ deaths aren’t yet known.  Officials […]

BATH — Cmdr. DonAnn Gilmore joins a rare class as she takes the helm of the most recent Bath Iron Works-built Arleigh-Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Daniel Inouye. Of the more than 1,110 commanding officers in the U.S. Navy, 75 are women, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.   Up until 1993, women weren’t allowed to […]

The New Hampshire Supreme Court dealt a possibly fatal blow Friday to plans for a hydropower transmission line that has raised concerns among communities and environmentalists that it would harm tourism and property values.  In its unanimous ruling, the court upheld a state committee’s rejection of the Northern Pass project. The court didn’t accept the […]

PORTLAND — America’s harvest of scallops is increasing to near-record levels at a time when the shellfish are in high demand and the value of the fishery has surged in recent years.  Sea scallops, harvested mostly by boats from the cold Atlantic Ocean, are the target of one of the most valuable fisheries in America. […]