AUGUSTA (AP) — A report by an environmental group that examines 50 of the country’s best and worst transportation projects calls the proposed east-west highway across Maine one of the worst. The Sierra Club said Tuesday that the privately run, four-lane toll highway cutting through the Maine woods would have negative impacts on air and […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Authorities say a state worker who died after his state-owned vehicle crashed into a utility pole in Augusta apparently suffered some sort of medical emergency before impact. Police say 64-year-old John Pearl died at a city hospital shortly after the crash at about 8:15 a.m. Tuesday. The state medical examiner is expected […]

TOWNSHIP 4, RANGE 8, Maine (AP) — Conservationist Roxanne Quimby’s land company has bought thousands more acres of land next to Baxter State Park, bridging the gap between other parcels she owns to create a contiguous tract tens of thousands of acres large flanking most of the eastern park border. Elliotsville Plantation Inc., completed the […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree is asking the federal Department of Veterans Affairs to treat sexual disorders in women veterans the same as it does for men. The Democrat says in a letter to the undersecretary of benefits at the VA that victims of sexual assault often suffer from female sexual arousal disorder, […]

SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s only Chuck E. Cheese location is closing. The parent company of the children’s entertainment center and pizza parlor says the South Portland location’s lease has expired and a new one could not be negotiated. The Philbrook Avenue location is closing on Sunday. The company says it will look for new […]

BUCKFIELD (AP) — A Buckfield man has been charged with multiple counts of gross sexual assault, unlawful sexual contact and domestic violence assault for alleged illegal contact with two young girls. The Oxford County Sheriff ’s Department says 42-yearold Gary C. Noyes was arrested this week. According to an affidavit by a Maine State Police […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Total spending for Maine’s U.S. Senate campaign topped $11 million, with more than half of that attributed to outside groups. According to final campaign finance reports filed last week, independent Sen.- elect Angus King raised $2.8 million in his bid for the seat being vacated by Sen. Olympia Snowe. Media reports indicate […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine House and Senate Republican leaders have named their state party leader and a mix of lawmakers to the legislative apportionment commission, which will meet throughout the winter and spring to redraw the state’s House and Senate district lines. The GOP appointees are Sens. Andre Cushing III of Hampden and Garrett Mason […]

TOWNSHIP 11, RANGE 11 (AP) — Maine State Police says a hunter reported missing Sunday night has died. Officials say 27-year-old Mark Brazier of Mapleton was reported missing after he didn’t return home from a bird hunting trip on Sunday. He had gone hunting alone on Saturday and stayed overnight in the woods. Lt. John […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite an intensifying pace, little progress is being reported in talks on averting automatic spending cuts and tax increases that economists fear could send the U.S. economy off a “fiscal cliff.” House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama spoke on the phone Tuesday, a day after the president offered to reduce […]