Edward Ristaino was taking five skydivers into the air Friday evening during a festival in Fitzgerald, Ga., when a storm hit.

The average price in Maine stands at three cents above the national average.

Government data suggest more than 10 million Americans have used meth; fewer than 1 percent of pregnant women are users.

Trustees last month approved his replacement, James Page, who’s CEO of James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town.

Senate President Kevin Raye, the bill’s sponsor, represents Washington County, where Republicans were angered over how February’s caucuses were administered by the Maine GOP.

Analysis finds CEOs at small hospitals paid large salaries / Lobstermen volunteering to try to hook ‘ghost gear’ . . . and more news from around Maine.

Maine has earned an “F” from a national organization’s first-in-the-nation assessment of accountability and transparency across the 50 states. Maine ranked 46th in the State Integrity Investigation by three nonpartisan, national and international journalism and good government groups. The score was based on research into 330 indicators on both the laws and practices in 14 […]

AUGUSTA — Maine GOP Chairman Charlie Webster says he’s identified 24 places in Maine where Republicans running for the Legislature can beat incumbent Democrats. The Maine Democratic Party says Webster is full of it. “I’ve stopped taking him seriously,” said Lizzy Reinholt, spokeswoman for the Maine Democratic Party. So begins the 2012 race for control […]