TOULOUSE, France (AP) — A gunman who killed four people at a French Jewish school may have filmed the attack, the interior minister said today, as hundreds of police combed southern France for the killer, suspected in three other deaths. Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the attacker was “wearing around his neck an apparatus” that […]

ST. ALBANS (AP) — Authorities say a 5-year-old girl missing in the woods in the central Maine town of St. Albans has been located uninjured. Maine game wardens and state troopers found Morgan Lawler, who was missing with a family dog behind the family’s residence Monday morning. A search party including wardens, troopers, two aircraft, […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — The commission that will approve Maine’s new public charter schools wants to hear what the public has to say in northern and eastern regions. The Maine State Charter School Commission plans to travel to Aroostook and Washington counties in early April to hear about regional educational needs that could be addressed […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — The Scotia Prince ferry that sailed between Portland, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, for more than two decades is going to the scrap heap. The ship that ferried tourists, truckers, gamblers and others was a fixture on the Portland waterfront until 2004, when the Portland-to- Yarmouth service came to an abrupt […]

RUMFORD ( AP) — Rumford police are investigating after two toddlers fell from a second-story window. Police say the siblings, a 2- year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, were taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life threating after falling out the window Monday afternoon. Capt. Glenn Prescott tells the Sun Journal that the […]

BANGOR (AP) — A Hampden man already on the state sex offender registry for sex crimes involving a child has been indicted on federal charges of possession child pornography. Walter Mosher pleaded not guilty to the charge Friday in U.S. District Court in Bangor. A detention hearing is scheduled today. The Bangor Daily News reports […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH (AP) — Two men have been arrested in connection with a string of arson fires in Old Orchard Beach. The fires were reported in the early morning hours of Feb. 28. The first was reported near some railroad tracks shortly before 4 a.m. Crews were later called to a local café that […]

SKOWHEGAN ( AP) — Authorities say a short circuit in the wiring of a fire suppression system at a Skowhegan gas station is to blame for coating vehicles and customers with a white powder that sent at least three people to the hospital with breathing problems. Fire Chief Tom Keene tells the Morning Sentinel there […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — The state commission that provides legal services to the poor may run out of money for court-appointed lawyers six weeks before the fiscal year closes at the end of June. The latest projected budget shortfall for the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services may delay payments to the lawyers who represent […]