TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A teenager has been convicted of plotting to kill students and teachers in a mass shooting at a northeastern Oklahoma high school. A Washington County jury on Tuesday found 19-year-old Sammie Eaglebear Chavez guilty of planning to cause bodily harm and recommended a 30-month prison term. The jury found Chavez not […]

FREEPORT Police on Monday night arrested a Freeport man who allegedly had gone on a rampage in front of the Abercrombie & Fitch store on Main Street. James M. Roux Jr., 27, faces charges of criminal mischief, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct including offensive words and gestures, and use of force. Roux will be arraigned at […]

WEST BATH The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department arrested a woman on charges of operating under the influence of drugs after receiving reports of two crashes in West Bath. Lt. Calvin Temple said the sheriff’s department got a report of a red pickup truck that struck a utility pole near the intersection of Foster’s Point Road […]

PORTLAND — Nicholas Alexander, 23 of Dresden, pled guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to rob the Walgreens pharmacy in Bath in June. According to U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II, Alexander and others robbed the Walgreens pharmacy on State Road in Bath on June 14. “Alexander handed a note to a pharmacist […]

AUGUSTA Despite increasing pressure from lawmakers and environmental groups, the University of Maine said Tuesday it must keep its proposal for an offshore wind project secret because disclosing details will harm the university’s chances for a $46 million federal energy grant. Lawyers for the university and Maine Aqua Ventus, the umbrella company that includes the […]

TOPSHAM Williams-Cone School was one of 236 U.S. public schools named Tuesday a National Blue Ribbon School. The prestigious Blue Ribbon program recognizes schools where students perform at very high levels or show significant improvements in closing achievement gaps. According to a news release about the designation from the Maine Department of Education, in the […]

BANGOR Independent candidate Eliot Cutler returned to his hometown to announce that he is again running for governor in 2014. “I am running because we need to move Maine forward, and the best way forward is neither left nor right, but straight ahead,” Cutler said Tuesday morning at the Cross Insurance Center, surrounded by family […]

FREEPORT Police arrested a Freeport man on Monday who allegedly went on a rampage in front of the Abercrombie & Fitch store on Main Street. James M. Roux Jr., 27, faces charges of criminal mischief, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct including offensive words and gestures, and use of force. He will be arraigned at Cumberland County […]