WESTBROOK (AP) — Police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman who was found in her apartment in Westbrook over the weekend. Officers discovered 42- year-old Michelle Minor at the Brown Street residence around 8:20 a.m. Sunday. Local police say the circumstances appear to be suspicious. Maine State Police have taken over the case.

READFIELD (AP) — The former owners of a Maine manufacturing company have donated 342 acres of woodlands, streams and wetlands to a nonprofit organization dedicated to conservation efforts. The Kennebec Journal reports the owners of the Saunders Manufacturing Company, John Rosmarin, his wife, Lisa Rosmarin, and their two daughters, donated the forestland that borders the […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The state ethics commission wants to tighten up Maine rules for publicly-funded candidates. Candidates who receive Maine clean election funds would no longer be able to make cash payments of more than $50 under the proposed rules. The state Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices wants to make candidates ineligible for […]

NAPLES (AP) — Authorities say two men are dead and a third wounded following shootings overnight in Casco and Naples. Police say 59-year-old Norman Strobel of Naples was shot and killed in a confrontation with Cumberland County Sheriff ’s deputies Saturday night at a mobile home in Naples. Deputies had been looking for Strobel after […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A state commission is figuring out how to reform Maine’s formula for funding public education and improve student performance. The commission will meet Nov. 28 in Augusta as it prepares a report for lawmakers due in January. In past meetings, commissioners have discussed using a statewide, regional or county-level teacher contract, and […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — A pair of Waterville residents are donating $4 million to a Portland retirement community. Elizabeth and Sidney Geller are giving the money to The Cedars. The donation will result in the campus being renamed The Elizabeth and Sidney Geller Senior Living Community at The Cedars. The Cedars is in the midst of […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A new class-action lawsuit claims that an electric company deceived Maine consumers and shorted them of $35 million. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on Nov. 18 claims that Electricity Maine used fraud and deception to enroll 200,000 Maine households and small businesses with the promise of substantial cost […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Two Maine parents are suing a public school district and teacher for humiliating their daughter by placing a bag on her head four different times. The Portland Press Herald reports that Michelle and Adam Woodford claim Regional School Unit 38 violated a state anti-bullying statute and public records law. The alleged head-bagging […]

REED PLANTATION (AP) — Computer giant Apple and The Conservation Fund are donating a 32,400-acre conservation easement to Forest Society of Maine. The Reed Forest land is located in Aroostook County in northern Maine. Apple is also supporting The Conservation Fund’s donation of an endowment to the Forest Society that the society says will ensure […]