AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine ranks 13th among states in a report measuring how well children are doing in health, education and family life. The annual “Kids Count” report released today shows improvement in Maine in some areas such as children’s health, but slips in others such as the number of children living in poverty. New […]

CASCO (AP) — Authorities say a New Hampshire woman has been injured in a lightning strike at a Maine resort. The Cumberland County Sheriff ’s Office says 25-yearold Erin Ledoux was watching the storm roll in Sunday afternoon at the Point Sebago Resort in Casco. Officials say Ledoux, who is from Nashua, and two other […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme is returning to Maine to help kick off opening night of next month’s 16th Maine International Film Festival. Demme, who won an Oscar in 1991 for “The Silence of the Lambs,” received the festival’s Mid-Life Achievement Award in 2002. He’ll be at the Waterville Opera House for […]

WALDOBORO (AP) — An 18-year-old Maine man has been charged with assaulting a 6-month-old baby. Tylor Miller of Waldoboro was arrested Saturday afternoon on two counts of felony assault on a child under 6 and other charges for violating conditions of release in an unrelated case. Staff at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta called police […]

LEWISTON (AP) — Heroin arrests and overdoses are on the rise in Maine. The state Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services says heroin killed three times as many people in Maine in 2012 than in 2011. Drug agents have made 99 heroin busts the first five months of the year, compared to 127 […]

ORONO (AP) — Police say a 20-year-old Maine man who’s charged with murder in the death of a 15-year-old girl is also a “person of interest” in an unrelated burglary over the winter. Detective Robert Jordan of the Penobscot County Sheriff ’s Department said Kyle Dube of Orono is being investigated for a burglary in […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — Although a Virginia woman became the third wing walker to die in two years when a fiery crash killed her and a pilot at an Ohio air show, those in the business insist such fatal accidents are rare. Forty-four-year-old wing walker Jane Wicker and 64- year-old pilot Charlie Schwenker were killed Saturday […]

BOSTON (AP) — Mayor Thomas Menino has informed survivors and families of victims of the Boston Marathon bombings that a memorial spontaneously created in Copley Square after the attack is being removed. Menino says items in the memorial, which include stuffed animals, sneakers, flowers and notes, will be taken to the city archives on Tuesday. […]