WESTBROOK Emery Deabay, a paper mill worker for four decades, sees the dismantled pieces of the old Verso mill in Bucksport leaving town by train day after day and knows the trains are taking what’s left of the state’s fading paper industry with it. The state’s once-thriving paper mill industry, like American paper-making at large, […]

WILTON A 14-year-old Maine student who started a diaper bank for families in need as part of a school project continues to be deep in diapers. Gracie Ward of Wilton has collected more than 8,000 disposable diapers since she started The Little Tushies Diaper Bank in March. The Lewiston Sun Journal reports that she has […]

LYMAN (AP) — A Maine state trooper and a woman from New Hampshire were treated and released for injuries they sustained in a crash that totaled both vehicles. State police Sgt. Jim Urquhart says trooper Doug Cropper was travelling west on Route 111 Saturday afternoon when a speeding car headed east passed him. The Portland […]

SACO (AP) — Police in Maine say they will launch a criminal investigation into the disappearance of a 23-year-old man after he left a Portland bar early New Year’s Day. Authorities say James Dyer of Saco was last seen by friends as they left the Pearl nightclub in Portland’s Old Port about 3 a.m. Friday. […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The deadline is approaching for northern shrimp trawlers and trappers who want to capture some shrimp as part of a government sampling program this winter. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and Maine Department of Marine Resources are looking for fishermen to collect shrimp this winter. The deadline to apply is today. […]

BANGOR (AP) — A man accused of mailing cyanide to a British resident will soon be arraigned on charges stemming from a new indictment. Sidney Kilmartin of Windham is due in U.S. District Court in Bangor on Tuesday. He previously pleaded not guilty to mailing injurious articles to Andrew Denton of Hull, England. Kilmartin was […]