Independent Marty Grohman and Republican Mark Holbrook are battling for Republican voters as they take on the challenge of unseating incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree. And while the Maine Republican Party’s official stance is to support Holbrook, Republican Gov. Paul LePage has made positive comments about Grohman, who has been endorsed by Sen. Amy […]

WEST KENNEBUNK — Two longtime staff members of the Animal Welfare Society are each celebrating 20 years of service with the organization. Shelter Manager Bobbi Adkins and Lead Canine Training Instructor Kim VanSickle both joined AWS three days apart in September 1998. Adkins began her career at AWS as an animal care technician on Sept. 8, […]

Both the owner of a pet cow shot and killed in Embden last week and the alleged shooter have been summonsed on charges in connection with the animal’s death, police said. Jaime Danforth, 40, of Embden, was summonsed Wednesday for animal trespass, a civil violation, Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster said in a news release. […]

A Madison man is facing charges in connection with the death of a Waterville man while the two were drag racing on Augusta Road in Winslow last month, police said. Nicholas Smith, 36, of Madison, was arrested Wednesday at a friend’s home in Madison on charges of Class B causing death while license was suspended […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Hurricane Florence bore down on the U.S. on Thursday, President Donald Trump angrily churned up the devastating storm of a year earlier, disputing the official death count from Hurricane Maria and falsely accusing Democrats of inflating the Puerto Rican toll to make him “look as bad as possible.” Public health experts […]