PARSONSFIELD — A pregnant woman who was stabbed during a fight in Parsonsfield late Sunday night has been discharged from the hospital.  A spokeswoman for Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston could provide no further information about the condition of the 26-year-old woman, who was reportedly 20 weeks pregnant and had been airlifted to the hospital by […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The head of the Massachusetts motor vehicle division has resigned after her agency failed to terminate the commercial driving license of a man whose collision with a group of motorcyclists on a rural New Hampshire road left seven bikers dead.  Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven counts of […]

Maine child welfare officials closed their case involving Kendall Chick almost 10 months before the girl died from abuse at the hands of her primary caretaker, according to new information released Tuesday.  Before closing the case, state officials visited the home of Stephen Hood, Kendall’s paternal grandfather, and Shawna Gatto, his fiancé, only twice – […]

Some employees at online retailer Wayfair’s contact center in Brunswick are expected to participate in a walkout Wednesday to protest the company’s decision to sell goods to federal detention centers that house migrant children.  A group of workers at the company’s Boston headquarters announced Tuesday on social media that they planned to stage a walkout […]

WISCASSET — Shawna Gatto has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of 4-year-old Kendall Chick in late 2017. A judge ruled the girl’s death shortly after her fourth birthday was the result of brutal physical abuse, and the case helped drive a review of Maine’s child welfare system and a series of reforms […]

BRUNSWICK — Brothers Keith and Kevin Carlon are hoping to open a medical marijuana storefront in Brunswick this summer, something that Keith Carlon said he hopes will help not only de-stigmatize cannabis as medicine, but more importantly, help people. It’s the first application for such a store since Brunswick adopted its marijuana ordinance last year.   […]