BOWDOINHAM Firefighters extinguished a vehicle on fire on Route 138 in Bowdoinham near the parkand ride lot Monday. Bowdoinham Fire Chief Arthur Frizzle said the vehicle was in motion at the time the fire broke out. Crews initially had challenges with the water supply, Frizzle said, but were able to bring the fire under control […]

SCARBOROUGH (AP) — Police say a 72-year-old South Portland man died in a fiery single-vehicle crash in Scarborough. Police say the car crashed into a tree and burst into flames shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday on Route 77. A passing motorist extinguished the fire. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A New York City man who got out of a police cruiser after his arrest in Maine and reached for an officer’s gun has been sentenced to 8 / years in prison. Fitzgerald Carryl, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegal possession of a firearm, reckless conduct and attempted theft. In […]

AUBURN (AP) — A Lewiston man charged with stabbing another man during a drunken fight at a party has reached a deal with prosecutors a day after the jury at his trial deadlocked. Raikuez Melchoirre was sentenced to time served and was freed from jail Tuesday after pleading guilty to a charge of aggravated assault […]

WILTON (AP) — Police say a man involved in a five-hour standoff in Wilton is dead. Chief Heidi Wilcox said the State Police Tactical Team entered the home at about 11 p.m. Tuesday and found the sole occupant, 60-year-old Raymond Richard, dead. She saidpolice went to the apartment at about 6 p.m. to investigate a […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Three people have filed a legal challenge to Portland’s ordinance that bars panhandling on traffic islands, saying it violates their constitutional free speech rights. The law that took effect in August bars anyone from standing on median strips, but homeless advocates say it’s aimed at panhandlers. City officials said it was a […]

BANGOR (AP) — An eastern Maine man charged with murder in a shooting death outside his home last year is expected in court to plead guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter. Prosecutors say Michael Carter of Lamoine has agreed to a 30-year sentence with all but 16 years suspended in exchange for having the […]

ORONO (AP) — A former head of the federal agency that focuses on oceans and the atmosphere is speaking in Maine as part of the Sen. George J. Mitchell Lecture series. Jane Lubchenco was administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 2009 to 2013. A marine ecologist and environmental scientist, she’s delivering a […]

OAKFIELD (AP) — The Maine Department of Public Safety charged a man in connection with the deaths of two people found inside a burning home in Oakfield. The department says 32- year-old Matthew Davis was charged with two counts of murder on Tuesday. Davis was arrested Monday after firefighters pulled the bodies of a man […]