SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — Police say they can’t do anything about flyers being distributed around a Maine city that warn of imminent nuclear war and extraterrestrial involvement in international politics. South Portland police say the flyers began turning up Wednesday evening, distributed on car windshields parked at a local mall. There are two different flyers being circulated; […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s largest city has reached a tentative agreement with police unions on a contract that would require officers to start wearing body cameras. Portland’s Democratic Mayor Ethan Strimling called for body cameras after a Portland officer shot and killed 22-year-old Chance David Baker in February. The City Council is scheduled to take an […]

DETROIT (AP) — The Maine fire marshal’s office says three men were injured in an explosion at a silo. Officials say a spark ignited dust and sulfur in an empty 86-foot-tall silo at Northeast Agricultural Sales in the town of Detroit, Maine. Officials say 62-year-old Anthony Towers from Newport is being treated for extensive burns […]

ORONO (AP) — The University of Maine System has announced a new program that will allow some first-year students to attend school at its smaller campuses for free. The program is available at the campuses in Presque Isle, Fort Kent, Augusta and Machias. It will begin in Fall 2018 and apply to Maine residents who are first-year, […]

SKOWHEGAN (AP) — Firefighters say a fire at the woodyard of a paper mill in Skowhegan has been brought under control. The Skowhegan Fire Department was called to the scene at the Sappi paper mill on Thursday morning. The Somerset County dispatch center said the department was responding to the woodyard at the Route 201 […]