PORTLAND (AP) — Residents of southern Maine are being told to prepare for a possible weekend ice storm that could result in power outages. Meteorologists say warm air coming up from the south and cold air coming down from Canada could collide to produce freezing rain Saturday night into Sunday. But they stress the forecast […]

LEWISTON (AP) — Lewiston officials say a car left running in a garage was the source of a carbon monoxide leak that sent nearly a dozen people to the hospital. A building that houses Bernard’s School of Hair Fashion was evacuated on Thursday after a number of students showed symptoms of exposure to high levels […]

BANGOR (AP) — The state has rested its case in the trial of a Maine woman charged with killing her husband in a brutal attack with weapons that included a baseball bat and pliers. A DNA expert from the state police crime laboratory was one of the final witnesses before the state concluded its case […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he will allow his commissioners to testify at legislative committee hearings. The Republican governor said Thursday that his staff has been working with lawmakers to come to an agreement that commissioners will be treated respectfully at committee hearings. For several months, LePage had told his commissioners to […]

LEWISTON (AP) — Authorities say one person has died in a two-car accident in Lewiston. The Sun-Journal reports the accident happened on Route 196 in front of the South Lewiston Baptist Church on Thursday. The name has not been released. Further information wasn’t immediately available.

BANGOR (AP) — A Maine man has pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of firearms. The U.S. Attorney’s office said 44-year-old Perrin Oliver of Bangor and formerly of Brooklyn, N.Y., was arrested in July at his Bangor apartment. Police found a revolver in his waistband and a safe in the […]

BANGOR (AP) — A man who fired as many as 70 shots in Bangor, Maine, on the Fourth of July, forcing the holiday parade to be rererouted, has pleaded guilty to federal gun charges. Perrin Oliver pleaded guilty Thursday to being a felon in possession of firearms. No one was hurt by the gunfire, but […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The women of the Senate who led the fight to change how the military deals with sexual assault in its ranks are hailing the passage of a comprehensive defense bill that includes some of those changes. The Senate voted 84-15 Thursday night for the $632.8 billion bill that covers combat pay, new […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, two review panels given nearly similar assignments by President Barack Obama have been studying how the White House should change or limit the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. They have functioned separately, with different experts and private and public hearings. Their mandates, however, were almost identical. The first panel recommended […]