PORTLAND Maine fishmonger Glen Libby made a disheartening discovery on Easter Sunday brunch — the cold water shrimp on the menu at a restaurant up the street from his fish market were from Canada, not New England. Canadian imports of the sweet, quarter sized crustaceans are turning up more in American restaurants and seafood markets […]

EDGECOMB The Lincoln County Sheriff ’s Office, along with other state and local agencies including a Maine Marine Patrol plane and state police dive team, continued to search on Sunday for a missing 74-year-old woman who left her home on Quarry Farm Road in Edgecomb on foot at 4:30 p.m. Friday. Lynn Crink was reported […]

RICHMOND A Richmond couple was taken to a Lewiston hospital — the husband by helicopter — after their car crashed into a small brook on Brown Road Saturday morning. Ruby Tarbox, 78, was driving the car when the incident occurred and her husband, Gilbert Tarbox, 84, was a passenger. The couple lives on Brown Road. […]

BRUNSWICK A Brunswick man has been indicted by a Cumberland County grand jury after police say he robbed the Bank of Maine on Maine Street in February. Benjamin Lamphere, 20, also was indicted on four misdemeanor counts of criminal threatening. Brunswick police went to the Bank of Maine branch at 137 Maine St. just after […]

WISCASSET A 23-year-old Maine man wanted on a three-year-old warrant out of Lincoln County was arrested at gunpoint Friday in California after officers located the yellow school bus he was known to travel in. Drew James Bibber, formerly of Wiscasset, led police on a lengthy chase through a marsh, a creek and across busy streets […]

ALNA — The Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association is hosting a nature journaling walk at the Bass Falls Preserve at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22 — Earth Day. A nature journal is a tool to increase awareness and observation in the natural world, learn about the surrounding world and offer opportunities to be creative. Nature […]

TOPSHAM — Rep. Denise Tepler, D-Topsham, will cohost a public forum to discuss two proposed tax plans, one from Gov. Paul LePage and the Democratic “Better Deal for Maine.” The forum, “Bringing the Budget Home,” will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, in the Main Meeting Room of the Topsham Town Hall. Topsham […]

PORTLAND Music lovers paying homage to their hometown record stores on Saturday were treated to dozens of releases of old-school recordings from artists ranging from Adam and the Ants to David Bowie to the Grateful Dead. Chris Brown from Mainebased Bull Moose music hatched the idea of Record Store Day while sitting at his desk […]

SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration has revoked the city of South Portland’s “business friendly” status because of a local ordinance that bans tar sands oil from being exported from the city’s harbor. It’s the first community to lose the designation since LePage started the program three years ago. The program evaluates […]

WASHBURN (AP) — The National Weather Service says ice jams on the Aroostook River are causing minor road flooding in parts of northern Maine. Flooding occurred Friday night in and around the town of Washburn in Aroostook County. The Weather Service says the ice was continuing to move on Saturday allowing the river to recede […]