WASHINGTON One lesson from Julia Pierson’s short tenure as director of the agency that protects the first family: The Secret Service can’t keep secrets from the president. Pierson’s undoing was not telling the president about a Sept. 16 incident in Atlanta in which President Barack Obama rode an elevator with an armed security contractor during […]

BUCKSPORT (AP) — Verso officials say they’re closing the company’s Bucksport mill, putting more than 500 people out of work. Verso company leaders said Wednesday that the Bucksport mill hasn’t been profitable for many years, and that its dependence on natural gas factored into the decision. Officials said the first round of layoffs will begin […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A key Maine advisory council is approving the rules for the state’s forthcoming scallop fishing season. The state Department of Marine Resources said Wednesday that the council signed off on proposed rules for the season. The rules call for the season to last from Dec. 1 to April 11. Zones one and […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A judge is sentencing a former TD Bank executive to 18 months in prison for using a company credit card to buy $240,000 in champagne and lap dances at strip clubs. The Portland Press Herald reports 42-year-old Jeffrey Burnham of Arundle, Maine had pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The National Marine Fisheries Service expects to implement emergency measures in November aimed at stemming cod fish decline in the Gulf of Maine. The fisheries service is crafting the measures at the request of the New England Fishery Management Council. The council asked for them at its meeting in Hyannis, Massachusetts, on […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The first Maine child has tested positive for a severe respiratory virus that has been making children sick across the country, health officials said on Wednesday. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that a child from York County is the first confirmed case of enterovirus D8 in the state. […]