BAR HARROR ( AP) — A new study from the National Park Service shows visitors to eastern Maine’s Acadia National Park spent more than $186 million in the park and surrounding towns in 2010. The new report examined the economic benefits that the nation’s 395 national parks brought to their communities during the year. Of […]

NEWRY (AP) — In celebration of today’s leap day, Maine’s Sunday River ski resort is selling lift tickets for $29. Sunday River says the $29 lift tickets can be bought today at any lift ticket window. Maine ski resorts are reporting good ski conditions following recent snowstorms.

OLD ORCHARD BEACH (AP) — The Maine fire marshal’s office is investigating a string of small fires reported in Old Orchard Beach. Firefighters say the first fire was reported near some railroad tracks shortly before 4 a.m. Tuesday. A short time later, crews were called to a local cafe that was damaged by fire. Other […]

BANGOR (AP) — The Maine supreme court has rejected health insurer Anthem’s claim thatithasarighttoa3percent profit and risk margin when setting individual health insurance premiums. Maine’s insurance superintendent reduced the margin to 1 percent, and the state contended the superintendent acted within its discretion to keep insurance premiums affordable. In its ruling, the Supreme Judicial Court […]

TOWNSHIP 11, RANGE 10 ( AP) — Officials say four snowmobilers are safe and sound after getting stranded in remote areas of northern Maine. Wardens rescued three men Monday night after one of their machines had mechanical troubles and two others got stuck in four feet of snow while riding on unplowed logging roads in […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — The CEO of L.L. Bean has lost his court appeal claiming the deed to his waterfront property in Cumberland inaccurately specified the location of an easement across his land. In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a lower court decision dismissing Christopher McCormick’s lawsuit against the property’s […]

PORTAND (AP) — A Maine man has been sentenced to 45 days in prison for misappropriating postal funds. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Robert Parent, of Winterville, also was ordered on Tuesday to pay more than $18,000 in restitution and to serve one year of supervised release. Court records say Parent’s duties while employed at the Mechanic […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A Waterville man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for pushing his 4- month- old daughter’s face into a cushion to stop her from crying, leaving visible swelling and bruising on her head. Robert Phillips pleaded guilty Tuesday in Kennebec County Superior Court to aggravated assault. The 37-year-old Phillips was […]

JACKSON (AP) — A man was arrested Tuesday on a murder charge in the case of a firefighter from Florida who had been missing in Maine since mid-February, said police, who are calling the killing drug-related. State police charged Daniel Porter, 24, of Bangor, in the death of Jerry Perdomo of Orange City, Fla., who […]

CHARDON, Ohio ( AP) — The 17-year-old suspect in a deadly shooting rampage at an Ohio high school appeared briefly in juvenile court as residents of the shaken community offered sympathy and support for families and friends of the three students who were killed and two who were wounded. A prosecutor described suspect T.J. Lane […]