Maine met its goal to install 100,000 heat pumps two years ahead of schedule. So Gov. Janet Mills is raising the bar, hoping that general state and federal incentives will help Maine lower heating bills and meet its climate goals.
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Couple checking out barking dog leads to encounter with Pennsylvania escapee, his recapture
Michael Burham, 34, was captured nine days after he fled the Warren County jail in the late evening hours of July 6.
In quiet Georgia subdivision, neighbor says he saw man accused of killing 4 shoot man in street
Police have swarmed a neighborhood south of Atlanta, searching for a man suspected of fatally gunning down three men and a woman
Arrest of suspect in Long Island serial killings brings both pain and relief to victims’ families
Megan Waterman of Scarborough was among the victims.
Tri for a Cure raises nearly $2 million
Despite the rain, more than 1,000 athletes swam and ran during the 16th annual Tri for a Cure at the Southern Maine Community College campus Sunday morning. With a tornado watch looming, the biking portion was called off.
Actress, singer and style icon Jane Birkin dies in Paris at age 76
The London-born star was widely admired for her fashion style and known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg.
Passenger takes controls of small airplane from ailing pilot and crash lands in Martha’s Vineyard
The crash happened on Saturday afternoon near Martha’s Vineyard Airport in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.
Hikers, others asked to watch for signs of escaped Pennsylvania inmate
Michael Burham fled the Warren County jail in the late evening hours of July 6 by climbing on exercise equipment, going through a window, and scaling down a rope fashioned from jail bedding, authorities have said.
Fargo police say they don’t yet know the motive for a shooting that killed 1 officer and injured 2
Chief David Zibolski said the gunman opened fire Friday afternoon for “no known reason at all” but that he was confident investigators will eventually figure out the motive.
Libya’s security forces release ex-minister whose detention prompted oil closure, tribal elder says
Former Finance Minister Faraj Bumatari, who hails from the al-Zawi tribe in southeastern Libya, walked free Saturday afternoon from detention in Tripoli, said al-Senussi al-Zawi, one of the tribe’s elders.