TOPSHAM Black smoke could be seen in the sky for miles Sunday but the flames that tore through the former nursing home at 29 Elm St., were intentionally set. The blaze concluded a controlled training burn that involved a multi-agency training all day Saturday before crews returned early Sunday morning to burn the building down […]

BRUNSWICK A former Brunswick woman charged with breaking several of her infant daughter’s bones has been sentenced to two years in prison. Shelagh Kavin, 23, most recently of Boothbay Harbor, was indicted by a Cumberland County grand jury in March 2013 for aggravated assault, a Class B felony, but pleaded guilty to the reduced charge […]

BATH (AP) — Bath Iron Works is expected to hire about 600 people this year as it works on six Navy destroyers at the same time. The hiring spree will bring the General Dynamics facility workforce to more than 6,000 people for the first time in a decade. With roughly 5,450 workers, BIW is one […]

PORTLAND Maine’s lucrative elver season is off to a slow start, with cold weather and resurgent foreign markets combining to depress catch and prices paid to fishermen, officials say. Baby eels, called elvers, are Maine’s second mostvaluable fishery after lobsters. The volume and value of the state’s elver fishery have boomed in recent years, with […]

PORTLAND Backers of a virtual charter school rejected by Maine officials are hoping for a second chance. The Maine Charter School Commission will decide Tuesday whether to consider an appeal from Maine Virtual Academy, which was rejected March 3. The commission voted 4-3 in favor of the school, but five votes are needed for approval. […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A $13 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor is helping Maine’s seven community colleges expand offerings in information technology. Officials at the community colleges say they will use the funds to launch IT classes and programs in the fall of 2014. A new summer scholarship program is also being offered […]