June 29, 2012
The officer and the other driver escape serious injuries in the collision in Portland.
June 29, 2012
A 20-year-old man is hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the chest.
June 29, 2012
The bill includes subsidies for the Portland-Boston train, which will expand service to Brunswick in the fall.
June 29, 2012
The bill keeps interest rates for some loans at 3.4 percent, and includes just over $100 billion for highway and other transportation programs.
June 29, 2012
The Brunswick Democrat says he is withdrawing from his state House race because he's been called to active duty in the U.S. Navy Reserves.
June 29, 2012
Ed Meadows will be deputy commissioner of operations and administration in the newly merged Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.
June 29, 2012

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts draws laughter at a conference of about judges, attorneys and others a day after the court's historic ruling on health care.
June 29, 2012
the White House has sent a memo to House and Senate Democrats pressing them to go on the offensive after the Supreme Court's health care ruling.
June 29, 2012
The state Fire Marshal's Office says the 28-year-old mother and her 11-year-old are hospitalized with severe burns to their faces.
June 29, 2012
Scott McDonald, 55, of South Portland, was riding his motorcycle on Johnson Road when a car pulled in front of him to make a U-turn, police said.
June 29, 2012

The school board will vote July 9 on a motion to hire Emmanuel Caulk, an assistant superintendent in Philadelphia's system, the eighth-largest in the nation.
June 29, 2012

Police say it appears the $30,000 reward for information leading to the missing toddler will go unclaimed.
June 29, 2012

Cruise, 49, wed the 33-year-old Holmes in 2006 in an Italian castle after publicly declaring his love on Oprah Winfrey's television show.
June 29, 2012
None of the marshals was scheduled for flight duty the day of the drinking, but the TSA says consumption of alcohol is forbidden anytime they are on the job.
June 29, 2012

The Government Oversight Committee votes 7-2 to not order a review of the proposed 26 percent increase.
June 29, 2012

In 2011, the DEP found that the number of days when beaches were posted because of high bacteria levels decreased by almost 50 percent from the previous year.
June 29, 2012

Susan Muniak, 45, is arrested following the collision that injured two others.
June 29, 2012
The fix is needed because it now takes the Earth about two milliseconds longer to rotate on its axis – the definition of a day – than it took 100 years ago,
June 29, 2012
The legislation, which also revamps highway and transit programs and shores up the federal flood insurance, now awaits President Obama's signature.
June 29, 2012

The FCC had wanted to reinstate a $550,000 fine against CBS for Janet Jackson's breast-baring performance at the 2004 Super Bowl.
June 29, 2012
The American Eagle flight to Raleigh-Durham, N.C., was delayed for five hours on Monday. The incident was caught on video.
June 29, 2012
The media outlets wanted to lift a prohibition on owning both a newspaper and a television station in the same market.
June 29, 2012

The man was leading a tour group at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden.
June 29, 2012

Bernard Madoff's younger brother, saying he was "deeply ashamed and terribly sorry," agrees to serve 10 years in prison.
June 29, 2012
Hampton Beach State Park and Wallis Sands Beach in Rye are among the safest beaches for swimming in the country.
June 29, 2012

The private service for family and friends of Patten, Maine, native Nick Hall is being held today at a visitors center in the national park.
June 29, 2012

A Minnesota business named Drive-a-Tank offers customers the chance to pilot surplus military tanks and other armored vehicles and smash junk cars like an action movie hero.
June 29, 2012

Meeting for the 19th time since the debt crisis exploded, leaders agree they will let indebted governments funnel bailout money directly to struggling banks as well.
June 29, 2012
A Coast Guard officer said the teens should have been wearing life jackets – but were not.
June 29, 2012
A 71-year-old Winslow man has been arrested again after allegedly assaulting a firefighter.
June 29, 2012
The bill could come up for a vote by Saturday. It includes $6 million for Amtrak's Downeaster train between Portland and Boston.
June 29, 2012
A Fish and Game officer finds the 19-month-old boy about a quarter-mile from the family's campsite.
June 29, 2012
Emergency officials responded quickly Thursday to a reported bomb threat at a Waterville mental health clinic, only to learn moments later that it was a drill.
June 29, 2012
The incident began after the man was accused of assaulting a woman in Orono.
June 29, 2012
The Catholic Church opposed passage of the Affordable Care Act because it allows use of federal funds to pay for elective abortions.
June 29, 2012

A Baptist missionary with a football background made a key tackle Thursday afternoon, helping police apprehend a suspect in a foiled Manchester bank robbery.
June 29, 2012

Early estimates put the damage at $400 million after a fire that started in a vacuum cleaner got out of control May 23.
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The hospital is working on obtaining permits and preparing building designs on its Fore River campus.
June 29, 2012

A Somali refugee says he's not as old as a U.S.-assigned Jan. 1 date indicates.
June 29, 2012
Maine's senators oppose the health care overhaul, which is backed by the state's representatives.
July 31, 2012

Lance Dutson will leave his job as director of the Maine Heritage Policy Center effective today.
June 29, 2012

The new $65 million Veterans Memorial Bridge spanning the Fore River includes a 12-foot-wide pathway -- 'really a wonderful amenity' -- for pedalers and pedestrians.
June 29, 2012

Little is known about Hawthorne's boyhood, but the house where he spent it will observe its bicentennial Saturday.
June 29, 2012
If approved, the trash incinerator that has plagued Biddeford for decades will be razed in a year.
June 29, 2012
Biddeford man charged in drug-related shooting / Transient charged with theft in alleged Craiglist scam / Woman gets prison term in spree that led to death . . . and more Maine news.
June 29, 2012

Loons with high mercury levels lack the energy to incubate their eggs and take care of their young.
June 29, 2012

EepyBird, the Coke and Mentos guys, brought their special brand of quirkiness to Portland’s Monument Square Thursday evening.
June 29, 2012

The band's sold-out Aug. 4 outdoor concert on the Eastern Prom has some worried about potential problems with crowds and alcohol.
June 29, 2012
June 29, 2012

Roberts leads way in ruling that upholds Obama's law