Friday’s rain washed out many events at the Skowhegan State Fair, soaked the entire central Maine region and continued the wet trend this summer.

The Maine Warden Service said it is “extensively” scaling back efforts to find Geraldine Largay, 66, of Brentwood, Tenn., after an intensive search for the missing Appalachian Trail hiker Sunday turned up no new evidence or leads.

Kevin Carroll, the Florida man who created the dolphin tail prosthesis portrayed in film, met with local amputees, like Roland McLaggan, who are learning to live with prostheses.

Police said passers-by saw James Wiggins dragging his dog, now being treated for heat exhaustion and abrasions, down Norridgewock Road and many of them called police.

The protesters tried to block a Pan Am train expected to pass through town Thursday evening by erecting a makeshift wooden scaffold on the tracks.

The former Somerset County sheriff’s deputy and husband of a daycare owner pleads guilty to four counts of unlawful sexual contact with children under the age of 14.