AUGUSTA (AP) — The Democratic lawmaker who earned a crude rebuke from Gov. Paul LePage last month is now the majority leader in the Maine Senate, a role that gives him more prominence as a foe of the Republican governor. Sen. Troy Jackson of Allagash was selected for the role Wednesday by his party caucus […]

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — Everyone missing in the fiery crash of a runaway oil train in Quebec is presumed dead, police told grieving families, bringing the death toll to 50 in Canada’s worst railway catastrophe in almost 150 years. Meanwhile, attention focused on the CEO of the railway’s parent company, who faced jeers from local […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Democraticcontrolled Maine Legislature finished their business for the session early Wednesday, but a bitter partisan battle over borrowing money to fix the state’s roads and bridges remained heated. Lawmakers adjourned after midnight following a long day of votes on more than 30 bills vetoed by Republican Gov. Paul LePage, who has […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Investigators are examining the cockpit interaction of two Asiana Airlines pilots who had taken on new roles before the crash of Flight 214 — one of whom had seldom flown a Boeing 777 and an instructor who was on his first training flight. There were four pilots on board but the […]

BRUNSWICK — More than 150 supporters and listeners joined Presence Radio Network staff and board members to celebrate the third anniversary of Maine’s only Catholic radio network, July 7 in Lewiston. The network, which relies on the pledges of listeners as its primary source of funding, has a staff of two, and two consultants. The […]

BRUNSWICK — Kara Aleixo Johnson has been appointed as the new director of development for Mid Coast Health Services. Johnson will lead the planning, implementation, and administration of fundraising appeals, endowment campaigns, gift planning, grateful-patient giving and donor appreciation events. Johnson is a lawyer and business owner, a Mid Coast Hospital board member, and committee […]

BRUNSWICK — Police subdued an 18-year-old student at the Spurwink School after she allegedly assaulted a staff member Tuesday morning. Brunswick police Officers Russell Wrede and Patrick Mahar answered the call shortly before 10 a.m. When they arrived, they had to physically restrain the student until she could be taken by ambulance to Mid Coast […]

FREEPORT Three osprey chicks knocked out of their nest at a Freeport park during a severe thunderstorm last week are being cared for by their parents and appear to be doing well. Wolfe’s Neck State Park Manager Andrew Hutchinson said Wednesday the 5-weekold chicks were knocked 50 feet to the ground by the July 5 […]

BOWDOINHAM A Topsham man was charged with drunken driving after flipping his car Tuesday night on Post Road. Sagadahoc County sheriff ’s deputies charged Gregory Thibeault, 24, of 27 Loon Drive, with operating while intoxicated in the 7:30 p.m. crash. Neither Thibeault nor his passenger, 20-year-old Nicholas Votta of Brunswick, was injured. According to Chief […]