AUBURN ( AP) — A disabled Auburn woman has filed a complaint with the state Human Rights Commission claiming the Auburn Housing Authority wrongly denied her funding for a spare room she used for exercising. Pamela Grant, who suffers from multiple physical and mental impairments, told the commission the housing authority declined her request for […]

SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — Police in South Portland have arrested two men they say were hiding in a crawl space in an apartment after one of them stole prescription drugs from a neighbor. A witness told police they saw someone climbing in the window of an apartment on Broadway at about 2:20 p.m. Sunday. The […]

BUCKFIELD ( AP) — A Maine company is supplying wooden keepsake Easter eggs that will take center stage during today’s 134th annual White House Easter Egg Roll. For the sixth straight year, the eggs are being manufactured by Wells Wood Turning & Finishing Inc., a wood products company in the central Maine town of Buckfield. […]

SCARBOROUGH ( AP) — The son of a survivor of the Titanic’s sinking says his mother would be overwhelmed and baffled by all the attention the Titanic is getting 100 years after it went down in the North Atlantic. Eighty-year-old Bradford Wellman of Scarborough tells Maine Today Media that his mother, Mary Lines Wellman, didn’t […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Spring leaves Maine roads in their shabbiest shape all year. And a highway-improvement group is looking for help in finding Maine’s worst road of them all. The Maine Better Transportation Association has launched the 3rd Annual Worst Road in Maine Contest. As the weather warms and potholes appear, Maine drivers are asked […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Nearly 60 students from Portland are headed to West Virginia to help with charitable housing work. The junior class of Casco Bay High School will spend this week in West Virginia volunteering on Habitat for Humanity’s affordable housing projects, interviewing local residents who live in Habitat homes and taking photos for a […]

WATERVILLE ( AP) — Police in Waterville are looking for suspects in the stabbing of a man following a fight in the central Maine city. Police say 26-year-old Michael Reed of Waterville suffered two stab wounds to his back and was taken by ambulance to MaineGeneral Medical Center in Waterville. His injuries are classified as […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — A bill Maine allowing courts to order the forfeiture of retirement benefits for a state employee convicted of a crime has been signed into law by Gov. Paul LePage. The bill, which was signed Friday, brings Maine in line with more than 15 other states that have pension forfeiture laws on […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Nighttime Maine Turnpike users will encounter intermittent 25-minute traffic stops southbound at mile 94 in Litchfield this week. The turnpike authority says the stops today through Thursday evenings will start at 10 p.m. and end at 5 a.m., weather permitting. Multiple traffic stops will be needed to accommodate repairs to a bridge […]