BIDDEFORD-SACO A year-long investigation into what authorities are calling a large-scale drug network operating in Biddeford and Saco has resulted in three arrests and the seizure of two pounds of crack cocaine, a “substantial” amount of heroin, six handguns and $27,000. Taken into custody were Obrian Barrett, 29, and Todd Milliken, 35, both of Biddeford, […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A legislative committee on Monday gave its unanimous endorsement to the governor’s nominee to become the next commissioner of Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection. Paul Mercer, a Maine Maritime Academy administrator and former engineering professor, has worked with renewable energy, solid fuels and biomass energy systems, and helped develop a system that […]

YARMOUTH (AP) — The guests of Maine’s U.S. representatives at the State of the Union address will be a Congo native who lives in Yarmouth and an Army veteran from Bangor. The Portland Press Herald reports the two guests will watch Tuesday speech by President Barack Obama from the gallery in the U.S. House of […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A grant from the Maine Cancer Foundation is designed to improve collaboration between Maine Medical Center Research Institute and Eastern Maine Medical Center Cancer Care. The two organizations are getting $200,000 each to improve “biobanks” that distribute patient tissue samples to researchers. The Maine Cancer Foundation says researchers will have easier access […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Divers returns to the waters of Portland Harbor in a resumed effort to locate a 23-year-old man who was last seen in Portland’s Old Port area on New Year’s Eve. The Portland Press Herald reports members of the Portland-South Portland dive team and Maine State Police divers utilized a sonar unit Monday […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine legislative committee is taking up a proposal to provide more flexibility in carbon monoxide detectors that have been made mandatory in more buildings. Current state law requires either carbon monoxide detectors to either use 10-year batteries or be connected to electrical service in childcare facilities, fraternity and sorority houses, inns, […]