AUGUSTA — State Sen. Susan Deschambault, D-Biddeford, has been appointed by Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, to serve as chair of the Commission to Improve the Sentencing, Management and Incarceration of Prisoners. The commission will review the status of prisoners in Maine and draft policy recommendations to address recidivism, the increasing prison population and […]

The noise complaints started coming on May 26 when a hip-hop and funk artist called Anderson.Paak took the stage at Westbrook’s new concert venue, the open-air stage known as the Maine Savings Pavilion at Rock Row. Now, almost three months later, the complaints about loud noise generated by a variety of artists, including Saturday night’s performance by Alice […]

Four people riding in a horse-drawn wagon were injured – one of them critically – when it struck a motor vehicle and telephone pole Sunday night in Clinton. “It was a freak accident,” said Clinton police Officer Phil DiLuca, one of several local and county officers who responded to the scene of the crash. DiLuca […]

SIDNEY — At the leap of a sturgeon, paddlers gasped and turned to companions to ask, “Did you see it, too?” Until 20 years ago, sturgeon had been unable to make these impressive leaps around 7 Mile Island on the Kennebec River. The breach of the Edwards Dam in Augusta gave them more of the […]

BANGOR — A union representing Emera Maine workers is expressing concerns about the company’s proposed buyer at a time when lawmakers created a new standard for the sale of public utilities. ENMAX, an electric utility in western Canada, cut its workforce by 4.5 percent this year and is planning to use debt to finance the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — You’ll finally be able to catch the late J.D. Salinger’s books in digital format. Longtime Salinger publisher Little, Brown and Company said all four of his works, including “The Catcher in the Rye,” will be made available as e-books Tuesday, marking the first time that the entirety of his published work […]

CANTON, Miss. (AP) — The children of Sacred Heart Catholic Church streamed out into Mississippi’s heat on a blistering Sunday afternoon, carrying what they said was a message of opposition against immigration raids their parents could not. “I will not sit in silence while my parents are taken away,” read a sign carried by two […]