PORTLAND (AP) — Passamaquoddy tribal leaders met Wednesday with Maine’s top fisheries official and two lawmakers to discuss their dispute over how many tribal members can fish for lucrative glass eels, but the two sides failed to resolve their differences. State law allows the tribe to issue 200 licenses to catch the eels, known as […]

WINDHAM (AP) — The father of an inmate who died in the Maine Correctional Center in Windham is raising questions about his diabetic son’s care behind bars. The Department of Corrections says 35-year-old Garrett Brewer died Wednesday at about 1:30 p.m. The death is under review, but authorities have not released details. Brewer’s father, Thomas […]

HOULTON (AP) — A Mars Hill man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to hire someone to kill his ex-wife. Mark Stetson was sentenced Wednesday in Aroostook County Superior Court. He had pleaded guilty in January to solicitation of murder, solicitation of robbery, and solicitation of kidnapping. Authorities say the 43-yearold […]

LEWISTON (AP) — Police say a Lewiston woman has been taken to a hospital after she was attacked by a knifewielding man in her own apartment. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the attack was reported just after midnight today. The victim was taken to Central Maine Medical Center with what were described […]

SKOWHEGAN (AP) — A Norridgewock man charged with sexually abusing three children at his wife’s nowclosed day care center has been released on $20,000 bail after his first court appearance. Horace Barstow did not enter a plea on Wednesday to three counts of unlawful sexual contact at an appearance in Skowhegan District Court. The Morning […]

LEWISTON (AP) — An inaugural regional robotics competition is about to get under way in Maine. Pine Tree Robotics Competition at Lewiston’s Colisee will feature teams from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Florida. The teams are due to begin arriving today to get settled before the competition on Friday and […]

ST. JOHN PLANTATION (AP) — Maine game wardens say a Massachusetts man survived being trapped under an overturned snowmobile for 20 hours. Wardens say searchers on Wednesday morning found 64- year-old Paul Lessard of Milford, Mass., underneath his overturned snowmobile in a ditch with running water in St. John Plantation, near the Canadian border. Wardens […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A new poll has Republican Gov. Paul LePage winning several three-way race scenarios featuring Eliot Cutler as an independent. The poll by Portland-based Pan Atlantic SMS Group laid out various scenarios in the governor’s race, for which four candidates have registered to begin raising money: LePage, Cutler and Democrats Steve Woods and […]

BELFAST (AP) — A Maine man has pleaded guilty to killing a Florida firefighter and drug dealer in a dispute over money. Daniel Porter pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter in the death of 31-year-old Jerry Perdomo of Orange City, Fla. In a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a murder charge against him. WZON-AM says Porter will […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A new poll shows that Maine residents overwhelmingly support mandatory background checks for gun purchases. Portland-based Pan Atlantic SMS Group said Tuesday that 90 percent of those surveyed said they support mandatory background checks on all potential gun buyers, with 8 percent opposed. Fifty-seven percent said they were in favor of a […]