LISBON Lisbon police arrested a man Friday night who allegedly struck a police cruiser with a pickup truck and fled the scene. Alexander Bennett, 20, of Lisbon was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, leaving the scene of a property damage accident and operating a motor vehicle beyond restriction. A fourth […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — Maine’s public water utilities are partnering with the state to fund lead testing at schools. Three associations that make up Maine’s drinking water community and the state’s Drinking Water Program are providing financial and technical support for free, voluntary lead testing. Jeff LaCasse, chairman of the Maine Public Drinking Water Commission, tells […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The state is looking for volunteers to help keep an eye on a Southern Maine shooting range. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is passing new safety rules addressing previous complaints of dangerous behavior at shooting ranges on land owned by the state. The state’s rules address hours of operations, minimum […]

JAY (AP) — The Maine Department of Labor’s Rapid Response Team is working with employees of the Verso Corp.’s Androscoggin Mill in Jay to prepare them for upcoming layoffs. Last month Verso announced that it would lay off about 190 workers and idle one of its paper machines, a digester and recovery boiler that support […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A University of New England scientist says he accidentally stumbled upon a molecule that could lead to early detection of some aggressive and deadly breast cancers. The Portland Press Herald reports Srinidi Mohan, an assistant professor of pharmacy, noticed a relationship between a molecule and estrogen negative breast cancer while studying nutritional […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine foundation and one of its founders are providing the University of Southern Maine with $600,000 for scholarships. The state university system says the Bob Crewe Foundation is giving the university $500,000 in scholarship support for the USM School of Music. Co-founder Daniel Crewe is also making a personal commitment of […]

MILLINOCKET (AP) — Nearly 1,000 people have registered to run a marathon over the weekend in hopes of boosting the economy for a struggling mill town in Maine. The Millinocket Marathon and Half Marathon is scheduled for Saturday. The free event is a qualifier for the Boston Marathon. The 13.1-mile route features views of a […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A research organization dedicated to the Gulf of Maine bioregion says a new net can catch flatfish while avoiding other species facing severe population declines. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute says the new trawl net can avoid nearly half the cod compared to traditional nets. Cod can swim up and over […]

HEBRON A former university and Air Force chaplain bought a shotgun after completing treatment for substance abuse and drove to the home of his estranged family, where he killed his adult daughter and then himself, police said Friday. A neighbor discovered the bodies of Daniel Randall, 56, and Claire Randall, 27, on Thursday in Hebron. […]