AUGUSTA A bill that would have allowed Maine craft brewers to more easily sell their products to go was squashed like an aluminum beer can under foot by the state Senate on Tuesday. At issue is whether businesses that make beer should be allowed to sell it more easily from a brewing facility without having […]

WILTON (AP) — Officials say a prisoner who was being transported from the Androscoggin County Jail to Franklin County escaped and led police on a chase in a stolen SUV. Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. says 31- year-old Derek Cook of Wilton slipped off a handcuff and fled from a transport van late Tuesday […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders will come to Maine’s largest city for a rally in support of his presidential bid before the state’s Democratic caucus. The event will take place at the State Theatre in Portland on Wednesday. The doors will open at 11 a.m. The candidate drew about 7,000 people to a rally […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine election officials are ready to rule on referendums to raise the minimum wage to $12, to create a casino in southern Maine and to tax upper-income residents to raise more money for schools. Wednesday is the deadline for the secretary of state’s office to certify those referendums. A proposal needs 61,123 […]

BIDDEFORD (AP) — Authorities say they arrested a New York City man for the shooting deaths of two men in Biddeford in the summer of 2014. Thirty-six-year-old Fuquan Prince Wilson has been charged with two counts of murder stemming from the shootings of Russell Lavoie and Jeffrey Lude inside an apartment. Police say the arrest […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine man was among dozens of campus sexual assault survivors who took the stage at the Oscars as Lady Gaga performed her Oscar-nominated song. Robbie Woodsum of Portland stood alongside the pop star Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood as she sung “Til It Happens to You.” Lady Gaga […]