PORTLAND (AP) — Caroline Duby Glassman, who rose to become the first woman on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court after starting her climb to the top of the maledominated legal profession during the 1950s, has died. She was 90. A role model for women in Maine’s legal profession, Glassman was appointed to the state’s highest […]

BELFAST (AP) — Maine State Police say a couple has been arrested in Belfast on charges of selling heroin. Police say Asgard Tarik Gilbert, 39, and Anna Congdon, 24, were arrested Wednesday night after agents from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, state troopers and Belfast police searched the hotel room where they had been staying. […]

SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — The impact of Superstorm Sandy and the lessons Maine can learn from the storm will be a focus of 2013 Maine Beaches Conference. Today’s event at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland is expected to draw as many as 200 coastal property owners, recreational beach users, volunteer beach monitors, scientists, […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — The 16th annual Maine International Film Festival begins this week in Waterville. The event starts today and extends through July 21. It will feature nearly 100 independent, international and Maine-made films while also providing audiences opportunities to meet and talk with directors, writers, producers and others working behind the scenes. At the […]

GORHAM (AP) — Police say a woman died when a dump truck rolled onto the minivan she was driving in Gorham. Police say the dump truck was heading east on Route 25 at about 9 a.m. Thursday when it swerved into the westbound lane to avoid hitting a pickup truck that had stopped to make […]

ORONO (AP) — An Orono hardware store is shutting down after more than 120 years in business. Owner Lin White Jr. says he’s closing down Park’s Hardware because there’s just not much call for small neighborhood hardware stores anymore. He’s marking everything down 20 percent before shutting his doors at the end of August. The […]

BANGOR (AP) — A Waterville man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for his role in a scheme that brought drugs to central Maine from New York City. Prosecutors say Rodney Lacroix, 24, was also sentenced this week in U.S. District Court to three years of probation upon release. Lacroix […]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Planners are envisioning a sleeker, taller structure to replace the aging Sarah Mildred Long Bridge between New Hampshire and Maine. The Portsmouth Herald reports stakeholders want to keep the name for the $160 million project. They met Thursday to discuss plans, including three different proposed designs for the four bridge towers […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s nomination of B. Todd Jones to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been sent to the full Senate. Obama picked Jones to lead the ATF following the mass shooting in December at a Connecticut elementary school where 20 children and six adults were killed. The […]

DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — Hollywood actor Kevin Costner is asking $14 million for 1,000 acres of land he owns near the Old West gambling town of Deadwood in western South Dakota’s Black Hills. The property includes the site of the illfated Dunbar casino resort, a $100 million project that would have included a golf course […]