AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage on Thursday released a YouTube video in which he takes credit for tax cuts passed during the last session and asks Democrats to support additional cuts in the 2013 session ahead. (Click to see video) In a five-minute video, the Republican governor is interviewed by his communications director, Adrienne Bennett, […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The era of U.S. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut leading the Homeland Security Committee is over with Lieberman retiring and Collins moving to the Senate Intelligence Committee, leaving the panel without the only two chairs it’s known. Republican caucus rules prevented Collins from serving another term on […]

PORTLAND (AP) — President Obama has renominated a lawyer from Cape Elizabeth for a federal judgeship. The president originally nominated William Kayatta early last year for a seat on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, but his Senate confirmation was stalled by election-year politics despite an endorsement from the Senate Judiciary Committee. […]

SANFORD (AP) — Sanford police are investigating a robbery at the York County Credit Union. Police say a man entered the credit union on Main Street shortly before 2 p.m. Thursday and demanded money from a teller. He did not show a weapon, and fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. Surveillance cameras […]

RAYMOND (AP) — A 6- month-old boy was seriously hurt but survived after he was ejected from his mother’s car during a crash and tossed 25 feet into the snow. The Cumberland County Sheriff ’s Office says the boy’s mother, 19-year-old Chynna Blaney, drove through a stop sign in Raymond just before 5 p.m. Thursday […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A former state prosecutor convicted of child pornography charges faces a retrial on six convictions dismissed by an appeals court. The same court upheld James Cameron’s convictions on seven other child pornography charges. The Kennebec Journal reports that a new criminal contempt charge was filed against Cameron on Wednesday based on his […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Jury selection is getting under way in the murder trial of a Massachusetts man charged with fatally shooting the mother of his four children and his longtime friend. Thirty-year-old Joel Hayden of New Bedford is charged in the deaths of 27- year-old Renee Sandora of New Gloucester, Maine, and 28-year-old Trevor Mills, […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Gun control, coyote predation and legislative bills coming up this year are among the issues to be discussed when the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine holds its 18th annual congress. Today’s daylong meeting at SAM’s conference center in Augusta will start off with a review of 2012 issues by David Trahan, the executive […]