AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage is directing some of the state’s saved money toward services for people affected by domestic violence. The Republican governor said on Monday that $100,000 from the state’s emergency contingency fund will go to the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. The group provides services and centers throughout the […]

BETHEL (AP) — Authorities say the owner of a western Maine tree cutting company has died in a wood chipper accident. Police say 60-year-old Sam Chapman of Bethel was cleaning the interior of a chipper on Sunday morning when a three-foot long, crescent shaped metal shield came off and punctured his chest. Police say he […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A New York firm has taken over the public relations contract for the Maine Office of Tourism from a Maine-based firm. The Dilenschneider Group beat out Augusta-based Nancy Marshall Communications for the contract, which went into effect Monday. Nancy Marshall Communications held the public relations contract for the past 20 years. The […]

MILLINOCKET (AP) — Officials say a hiker has been airlifted from Maine’s highest mountain after he was injured by a falling rock. Sixty-two-year-old Ned Hamara of Texas was hurt after a large rock fell on him Monday afternoon while he was hiking Mount Katahdin at Baxter State Park in Piscataquis County. Officials say a concerned […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine Chief Justice Leigh Saufley has been named the winner of the University of Southern Maine’s Sampson Catalyst for Change Award. The school says Saufley is the seventh winner of the annual award given by USM’s Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine.

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican predecessor President George W. Bush found common ground in Africa today, honoring the victims of a terrorist attack in an unprecedented encounter a world away from home. The U.S. presidents observed a moment of silence together at a monument to victims of the 1998 embassy […]