SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — A pro-marijuana activist and a Maine police chief sparred in a debate about referendums that would legalize recreational use of the drug in two cities. The Portland Press Herald reports Marijuana Policy Project Maine political director David Boyer and South Portland Police Chief Edward Googins attracted a crowd of nearly 100 […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Students from 130 Maine schools want to give Gov. Paul LePage another four years in the Blaine House. The Republican governor won the annual mock election Wednesday with 38.5 percent of about 12,000 votes. Democrat Mike Michaud came in second with 35.8 percent and Cutler finished in third with 25.4 percent. In […]

FRYEBURG The Maine Public Utilities Commission says Fryeburg Water Co. can enter into a long-term contract to sell water to Nestle Waters, bottler of Poland Springs. The commission ruled Thursday that the contract between the privately-owned utility and Nestle could benefit the utility’s ratepayers. Nestle would pay higher rates than household customers. The contract runs […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine television station has canceled a debate in the race for the 2nd Congressional District seat after Democrat Emily Cain said she wouldn’t attend. WMTW-TV was planning to host a debate between Cain and Republican Bruce Poliquin on Tuesday, Oct. 28. WMTW says Cain told the station Thursday she will be […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The worst of a powerful storm that’s been moving across Maine will soon draw to a close but not before causing more heavy rain. Mike Kistner from the National Weather Service says winds gusting to 35 mph on the coast and higher offshore will continue throughout the day Thursday, along with heavy […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who sent a shipment of fake Otter- Box cellphone cases to a reseller in Maine has pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods. Michael Kurnik, of York, Pennsylvania, entered his plea Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland and faces up to 10 years […]

BANGOR (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man they allege robbed a Guilford pharmacy in 2012 and made his escape in a stolen U.S. Postal Service truck. Michael Thompson, of Corinna, was held without bail at his initial appearance Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor. The 26-year-old Thompson was arrested today in connection with […]

BRUNSWICK (AP) — Supporters of a plan to build a $12.7 million layover facility for Amtrak locomotives in Brunswick are using a drone to make their case. Aerial video distributed by TrainRiders Northeast shows the tracks, the proposed layover site and the neighborhood that’s been fighting it. No houses can be seen because the neighborhood […]

MACHIAS (AP) — Seventeen former Washington County Sheriff ’s Department employees have sued the sheriff, saying he released Social Security numbers and other personal information that later ended up on a newspaper’s website. The former employees accuse Sheriff Donnie Smith, who is running for re-election Nov. 4 as an independent, of invasion of privacy, intentional […]

NEW YORK A doctor who became New York City’s first Ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing symptoms, and health officials stressed that the nation’s most populous city need not fear his wide-ranging travel in the days before his illness began. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged residents not […]