AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s heating oil prices are holding steady. The Governor’s Office of Energy Independence and Security said the average statewide price Tuesday was $3.56 a gallon, down a penny from a week ago. Prices were lowest in southern Maine and highest in northern Maine. Since Halloween, heating oil prices have ranged only 10 […]

WESTBROOK (AP) — The owner of a strip club that was open for one day before being shut down says he won’t appeal following a federal judge’s ruling that the city of Westbrook didn’t violate his constitutional rights by revoking the club’s occupancy permit. Lawrence Ferrante filed a lawsuit against Westbrook in September 2010 a […]

AUGUSTA Maine’s Medicaid shortfall will be the dominant and most pressing issue as lawmakers return to the State House today to begin their 2012 session. The new year’s agenda concludes work begun by lawmakers last year, but also will include some new items pushed by Gov. Paul LePage, including Medicaid restructuring to address a state […]

GARDINER (AP) — Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with the robbery of prescription drugs from a Gardiner pharmacy this week. Police say the youth was arrested Tuesday in connection with the robbery Monday of a Rite Aid on Spring Street. The boy, whose name was not made public because of his age, […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With a plane circling overhead and police on the ground, Logan McFarland and Angela Atwood ended an intensive four-day manhunt by telling officers, “We give up.” McFarland, 24, and Atwood, 25, surrendered Tuesday in a desolate part of Nevada on suspicion of killing an elderly Utah couple, driving to Nevada […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine is one of 13 states receiving grant money from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service for coastal wetland properties. The agency’s 2012 National Coastal Wetland Conservation Grant Program is giving out a total of $20.5 million for 24 projects. In Maine, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is getting […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — The Maine Department of Labor is ramping up for a rush of post-holiday, seasonal layoffs. Officials are reminding laid-off workers that the best and quickest way to apply for unemployment is to file online at the Labor Department website at www.file4ui.com. The year 2011 ended with significantly fewer unemployment claims than […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A New Hampshire man convicted of strangling his fiancee in her Maine home has asked a judge to grant him a new trial based on “newly discovered evidence.” An attorney for Jason Twardus filed a motion Tuesday in York County Superior Court saying the state failed to provide his client with evidence […]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — The nearly 90- year- old bridge connecting New Hampshire and Maine is closing to all pedestrian and bicycle traffic on Monday as contractors get ready to demolish it for a replacement. Electronic message boards are in place at the bridge advertising the pending closure. The bridge was closed to motor vehicle […]