FALMOUTH (AP) — Police in Falmouth are warning of a scam in which someone threatens to carry out a murder-for-hire plot if financial payments aren’t made to an overseas recipient. Police say a resident received a text message on her phone Tuesday. The message said the sender had been “paid to kill” the resident and […]

DIXFIELD (AP) — The police department in Dixfield, Maine, has been shut down. Dixfield Town Manager Carlo Puiia said Wednesday the abrupt action comes after Police Chief Jefferey Howe and patrol officer Anne Simmons-Edmunds were placed on paid administrative leave. Howe and Simmons- Edmunds are the department’s only full-time officers in the town of about […]

OAKLAND (AP) — Oakland officials have adopted an ordinance that prohibits the retail sale of marijuana and the establishment of social clubs in the town. The Morning Sentinel reports that the ordinance voted on by town councilors Wednesday doesn’t ban the legal use and the legal cultivation of marijuana. Maine voters approved a referendum legalizing […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — The Maine Governor’s Energy Office says the price of heating oil has risen over the last two weeks. The statewide average cash price for No. 2 heating oil was $2.22 per gallon this week. That’s up eight pennies over the last two weeks. The state’s average prices for kerosene and propane […]

PRESQUE ISLE (AP) — Police in Presque Isle are warning of a possible bad batch of heroin after five overdoses — one of them fatal — within a four-hour period. The overdoses on Tuesday in the city of 9,600 residents in northern Maine served to bring the state’s epidemic of heroin and Fentanyl abuse into […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Campaign finance records show that GOP Gov. Paul LePage forked over a couple hundred bucks to an effort to defeat Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The Sun Journal reports that the donations mark the first time that LePage as governor has donated to an independent political action committee, or to any federal […]