UNITY (AP) — A popular Maine fair devoted to organic farming and rural living is kicking off in Unity. The Common Ground Fair runs from today through Sunday. The fair is sponsored by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and is a back-to-the-earth version of state agricultural fairs. It draws thousands of people from […]

BANGOR (AP) — The Harlem Globetrotters are ready to kick off the first event at the new arena in Bangor. The Globetrotters are playing games today and Saturday for what will be the first ticketed events at the Cross Insurance Center. The team boarded a bus from New York’s Long Island on Thursday with Big […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH (AP) — Maine veterans are gathering to honor prisoners of war and servicemen missing in action and to raise money for veterans in need. The POW/MIA Recognition Weekend kicks off in Old Orchard Beach Baseball Park today. The annual event is hosted by the Maine Heroes Fund organization and raises money for […]

PORTLAND (AP) — President Barack Obama has nominated Maine supreme court justice Jon Levy to serve on the federal bench. Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree praised the White House announcement of Levy to fill a vacancy created when U.S. District Judge George Singal took senior status on July 31. Michaud and Pingree, along with […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms. Anthony Foglio was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court. He had pleaded guilty in May. Court records say Foglio, 28, of Waterboro bought and sold nine firearms last year. Agents contacted […]

PLYMOUTH (AP) — Police say a Plymouth man has died after the vehicle he was working on fell on him. A spokesman for the Penobscot County Sheriff ’s Department says Roger Crocker, 57, was working under a jackedup vehicle in his own driveway at about 5 p.m. Wednesday when it rolled off the jack and […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Seeing a moose in Maine is not unusual. Seeing a moose lingering on a lawn in a city neighborhood is. A 600-pound, juvenile male moose that had been hanging out for several days in a small patch of woods in an Augusta neighborhood was tranquilized, moved and set free Wednesday by wildlife […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first bang sounded distant and muffled. On the fourth floor, Bertillia Lavern assumed somebody downstairs was setting up for an event and had dropped a folding table. But when the bangs kept coming, Lavern recognized the sounds. Years earlier, before taking a civilian office job at Naval Sea Systems headquarters, Lavern […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court tossed the criminal conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Thursday, saying there was insufficient evidence for a jury in 2010 to have found him guilty of illegally funneling money to Republican candidates. The Texas 3rd Court of Appeals said prosecutors failed to prove […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia woman is suing US Airways, saying her husband’s ashes disappeared from her luggage as she flew to England to bury them in his hometown of Hull. Angeline O’Grady’s husband, Brian, died of cancer in October 2011. She was flying his ashes to England the following month when she says […]