PATNA, India (AP) — At least 21 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said today. It was not immediately clear how chemicals ended up in the food in a school in the eastern state of Bihar. One official […]

AUBURN (AP) — A Greene man facing charges in connection with the slaying of a man he believed was a police informant has been ordered held without bail. Nathan Morton appeared in court on Tuesday. Morton is charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and hindering apprehension or prosecution in connection with the April killing […]

AUUGUSTA (AP) — Federal and state wildlife officials are investigating after a dog killed a protected piping plover chick on a Scarborough beach. A spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says a woman spotted an unleashed dog on Pine Point Beach on Monday morning approaching a plover nest. She warned the […]

BANGOR (AP) — The sentencing of a former Maine college basketball star on child pornography charges has been postponed. Dana Wilson of Brewer was scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, but the hearing was delayed until Aug. 20 because his psychologist had a scheduling conflict and was unable to appear in court. The 62-year-old Wilson’s lawyer […]

SCARBOROUGH (AP) — Maine’s top commercial fishing official is holding the last of a series of open meetings with lobstermen to discuss how the lobster-fishing season is going. Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher is hosting a meeting today at Scarborough High School to gather information and ideas from lobstermen and share information about what’s going […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage is headed to Pennsylvania to participate in a celebration for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The Republican governor will take part in a ceremony at Little Round Top tonight. LePage will also tour the battlefield with the Maine and Alabama National Guard and offer brief remarks.

HARTLAND (AP) — Maine Warden Service divers have recovered a man’s body from a central Maine lake where he went missing while fishing. Officials say the body of William Witt, 66, of Harmony was found Tuesday in Great Moose Lake in Hartland. Witt’s boat was going around in circles in the lake with no one […]