TOPSHAM — There are two opportunities on on Wednesday to support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention via the annual Out of the Darkness Walk held in Bath in September. Both events are located at Buffalo Wild Wings in Topsham. The first is a fundraiser with the restaurant donating 10 percent of all food sales […]

WEST BATH — An aquaculture forum hosted by Casco Bay Estuary Partnership will take place Wednesday from 2:30-4:45 p.m. at the West Bath Seaside Grange. Topics will include the carrying capacity of the New Meadows River for aquaculture, current water quality conditions and ongoing coastal changes threatening a potentially thriving aquaculture industry and models for […]

DURHAM For nearly three weeks, dozens of wardens, Maine Marine Patrol officers and volunteers have scoured the Androscoggin River for 5- year-old Valerio McFarland. On Monday, it took Christopher Lane, an L.L.Bean kayaking instructor and father of six, less than an hour to find the boy. Lane, 43, of Litchfield found Valerio’s body while kayaking […]

SEARSPORT (AP) — Police in Maine say they have found the body of a man missing since fall along the banks of Penobscot River. Steven Reed was last seen leaving Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor on Nov. 4. Police recovered his body in Searsport on the afternoon of May 8. State police released Reed’s […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A convicted felon uploaded videos of him shooting a gun at a Maine firing range despite being banned from possessing firearms has been sentenced to over two years in prison. Twenty-six-year-old Dane Mitchell was sentenced Monday at federal court in Portland to 27 months in prison for being a felon in possession […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A New York man who fled after a killing in Augusta, Maine, is due to stand trial. Aubrey Armstrong is being tried without a jury at his request. The trial was due to start on Monday at the Augusta Judicial Center. Two other men reached a plea agreement with prosecutors and are […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine wildlife officials are conducting the largest statewide survey of bald eagles in the Pine Tree State in several years. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife biologists and game wardens pilots are conducting the survey, which is the largest of its kind since 2013. Biologists started counting nesting eagle pairs from […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine State Police have arrested a group of people who were protesting outside the governor’s mansion in Augusta. Maine Poor People’s Campaign spokeswoman Marie Follayttar Smith says the Monday protest was part of a nationwide campaign against systemic poverty and racism. State police tell the Bangor Daily News that 18 people were […]

WALES A state trooper responding to a domestic-violence call fatally shot a man after an hours-long standoff, authorities said Monday. Police negotiators and tactical team members responded to a home in Wales on Sunday night regarding domestic violence in which 54-year-old William Derick fired a gunshot at a woman, state Department of Public Safety spokesman […]