PORTLAND A Delaware man arrested in August 2017 for selling crack and heroin in the Bath-Brunswick area was sentenced Monday to three years in prison. Kyle Rivers, 26, of Bear, Delaware, also was sentenced to three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to the charge of possessing with intent to distribute on Nov. 28, […]

BRUNSWICK Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program announced that long-serving food pantry volunteer Howard Bliss was selected as the Maine Governor’s Service Award Volunteer of the Year for 2018. Bliss attended the Maine Commission of Community Service awards presentation last month with program director Karen Parker. “It was such an honor to be part of recognizing […]

BANGOR The final police radio transmission for officer 1312 went out at 1:47 p.m. Monday. “Cpl. Eugene Cole — you are now 10-7,” the dispatcher said, telling all the cars and stations for Maine State Police and the Somerset County Sheriff ’s Office that Cole was out of service. County deputies then carried Cole’s casket, […]

WESTBROOK (AP) — A Maine bookstore says it is pulling books written by Junot Diaz, who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct. Quill Books & Beverage in Westbrook announced Friday it would be removing any books written by Diaz from its shelves. Co-owner Allison Krzanowski tells the Portland Press Herald that the bookstore has previously […]

ROCKLAND (AP) — A Maine coffee shop is now run and owned by its 17 employees in a deal with the previous owner to become a cooperative. Rockland’s Rock City Coffee became a worker-owned cooperative two months ago with employees buying the business from founder Susanne Ward. The Bangor Daily News reports the coffee shop […]

NEWINGTON, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a 7-year-old girl was one of two people who died in a boat crash in New Hampshire over the weekend. The state Marine Patrol says the accident happened Saturday night on the Piscataqua River in Newington, New Hampshire. The patrol said the girl and 56-year-old Laurie Stewart, of Eliot, […]

HUDSON (AP) — The Penobscot County Sheriff ’s says a man was killed and two others hurt in a single-car crash in the town of Hudson. Officials say a man and woman were taken to the hospital Sunday evening and that authorities also searched for a fourth person believed to have fled the scene. That […]

LEWISTON (AP) — A Maine university has removed artwork from a campus gallery upon learning the artist of the three works is a convicted sex offender. The University of Southern Maine removed the works by Bruce Habowski when a relative of one of his victim’s called to complain. The Portland Press Herald reports a criminal […]