BANGOR (AP) — A Fort Fairfield man who worked with an Aroostook County afterschool program has pleaded guilty to child pornography possession charges. Jake Rogeski was held without bail pending his sentencing after entering his plea Tuesday in federal court in Bangor. He faces up to 10 years in prison at yet to be scheduled […]

PORTLAND (AP) — More than 50 businesses are taking part in a new promotional campaign to give a boost to Maine’s lobster industry. The Maine Lobster Lovers Celebration campaign runs through November. During the promotion, restaurants and retailers are offering lobster specials along with contests for free lobsters and other prizes. The initiative is put […]

ALFRED (AP) — A Maine man authorities said had an assault rifle, a shotgun and four handguns as well as newspaper clippings about the fatal theater shootings in Colorado in his car when he was stopped for driving 112 miles per hour has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. A state judge on Tuesday […]

FAIRFIELD (AP) — A 75- year-old Waterville woman involved in a car crash last month in Fairfield has died. Anne Gagnon’s daughter tells the Kennebec Journal that was pronounced dead Sunday. Police say Gagnon drove into the path of a truck on July 26 at the Nye’s Corner intersection. They say she stopped at the […]