PORTLAND — A crowded GOP field splits the vote, helping a tea-party backed conservative win the primary. Then an independent candidate creates a three-way race in which the Republican emerges with a victory in November. That was path Paul LePage followed to the Blaine House in 2010. And a similar path is unfolding in the U.S. […]

LAMOINE (AP) — One of the four people shot outside a home in Lamoine earlier this month says the shootings stemmed from a dispute over payment for a truck paint job and had nothing to do with drugs. Joshua McKinney of Ellsworth tells the Bangor Daily News that his arrest last week for drug possession […]

FORT KENT (AP) — Fire tore through downtown Fort Kent early Sunday, destroying fives buildings and forcing 10 people out of their homes, authorities said. No one was injured. The fire broke out in one of three buildings that made up a furniture store, then spread to the other two, along with two adjacent buildings […]

BREWER (AP) — Police say they are unlikely to charge a couple of kids who apparently walked off with a laptop computer after walking in an open door at Brewer Middle School. Police say the 10- and 7- year-old boys went into the school on Saturday afternoon, explored for a while, and walked out with […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s attorney general will join his colleagues from around the country who will witness arguments before the U. S. Supreme Court on the national health care overhaul this week. The court will hear three days of arguments on different parts of the Affordable Care Act starting today. Because of limited space in […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A sendoff ceremony for soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan is set for this week. The Maine National Guard says the ceremony will honor four soldiers and their families who will deploy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. They serve with the 1968th Contingency Contracting Team, which contracts for supplies, services and construction […]

BETHEL (AP) — Authorities are looking for a 62-yearold woman with medical conditions who was last seen two weeks ago shortly after she moved from Lewiston to Bethel. An Oxford County Sheriff ’s captain says Fay Johnson is considered missing and endangered. Police tell the Sun Journal that her landlord in Bethel, who had been […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier shot and killed two British troops today at a NATO coalition base in southern Afghanistan before being gunned down by international forces, officials said. The attack was the latest in a string of so-called “green on blue” attacks in which Afghan security forces have turned their guns on their international […]

SEATAC, Wash. (AP) — The wife of a U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians says her husband showed no signs of PTSD before he deployed, and adds that she doesn’t feel like she’ll ever believe he was involved in the killings. Karilyn Bales defended her husband, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, in an interview […]