PORTLAND Two parents are elated that their eldest son is recovering from nearly drowning and anguished that his younger brother remains missing two weeks after falling into a river. The atmosphere is often upbeat in 10-year-old Maxim McFarland’s room at The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center, where the boy’s mother, Helena Gagliano- […]

BANGOR (AP) — Court documents indicate two homeless people in Maine were alive before a man allegedly set fire to a box truck in which they were sleeping. The affidavit filed Tuesday indicates John De St. Croix, of Bangor, told police he saw a man he was angry with passed out in the back of […]

(AP) Michigan-based Boyne Resorts has completed its purchase of six ski resorts it was operating under longterm lease agreements from Maine to British Columbia. CEO Stephen Kircher called the closing with Oz Real Estate this week “exceptionally gratifying” because he’d long wanted to own the properties outright. Boyne now owns Brighton Resort near Salt Lake […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine mixed martial art fighter is losing his argument that he was defending himself when he repeatedly punched an unconscious victim in the head. Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court upheld Richard Matthews’s conviction of aggravated assault for beating a man outside a bar in 2015. The judges say evidence doesn’t support his […]

WATERVILLE Voters in a Maine city will decide next month whether to keep their mayor in office in the wake of the Republican’s use of Twitter to mock a school shooting survivor. The Morning Sentinel reports Waterville’s City Council voted Tuesday to place the recall question on the June 12 ballot. The recall concerns Mayor […]

ORONO (AP) — The University of Maine has deployed a herd of goats to help students get through a stressful finals season at the end of the semester. There was a line of students waiting this week to get close to the goats. WABITV reports the goal of the goats is to cheer students up […]