[Oct 03rd 2011] Former Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell says Palestinian efforts to gain membership in the United Nations will hurt prospects for peace with Israel in the long run. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the U.N. Security Council ... - read on...

[Sep 29th 2011] A 14-year-old boy has died after he drove his all-terrain vehicle into the back of another ATV being driven by a friend in the western Maine town of Paris. Paris police say Albert Roberti Jr. and a friend were riding their three-wheelers ... - read on...

[Sep 28th 2011] Court officials say a Texas woman accused of killing her 6-year-old son in New Hampshire and disposing of his body in rural Maine will plead guilty. Forty-two-year-old Julianne McCrery will plead guilty to second-degree murder in Camden H... - read on...

[Sep 27th 2011] Two men from central Maine died Tuesday at a motel in Kennebunkport. 58-year-old Winfield Studley of Windsor and 70-year-old Richard Kemp of Monmouth were found floating in a sewage tank at the lodge at Turbat's Creek around eleven this morning... - read on...

[Sep 27th 2011] Police in Lewiston say a 19-year-old New York man is in custody after a stabbing on a city street. Randall Wilson of Brooklyn, N.Y., was arrested Monday night and charged with elevated aggravated assault. He was ordered held on bail of more t... - read on...

[Sep 27th 2011] Maine's Bath Iron Works has been awarded an extra ship, winning contracts for two out of three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to be built for the Navy. For the contract, the Navy agreed to award one ship apiece to Bath Iron Works and to th... - read on...

[Sep 26th 2011] Staples office supply store on Market Place Drive in Augusta is closing its doors. A spokesperson for the company says the move does note reflect that business is bad nationwide. We're told the Augusta store is the only Staples in the U.S. tha... - read on...

[Sep 26th 2011] Maine police say a New Hampshire truck driver was distracted by his cellphone and driving 20 mph over the speed limit when he skidded into the path of an oncoming Amtrak train. The driver, 35-year-old Peter Barnum, was killed in the July 11th cras... - read on...

[Sep 26th 2011] Police in the Maine town of Livermore Falls are investigating an early morning stabbing. Livermore Falls Police Lt. Thomas Gould says a 23-year-old man was found wandering on Main Street in Jay early Saturday. The victim told police he had bee... - read on...

[Sep 26th 2011] The potato is on the verge of being virtually banished from the nation's school lunch program, but not if Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Mark Udall of Colorado have anything to say about it. Collins, who grew up in Maine's potato country a... - read on...

[Sep 23rd 2011] Maine State Police are searching for clues in hopes of learning the whereabouts of a Lewiston woman who was last seen nearly three months ago. Investigators searched a house on Sabattus Street in Lewiston Friday in hopes of uncovering clues con... - read on...

[Sep 23rd 2011] The Texas woman accused of killing her 6-year-old son in New Hampshire and disposing of his body in rural Maine has not yet been indicted by a grand jury, despite a New Hampshire law requiring indictments to be returned within 90 days after the ca... - read on...

[Sep 22nd 2011] The ground work is under way for what will become Augusta's largest private employer. The MaineGeneral Medical Center is a 312-million dollar project. A formal groundbreaking is set for Friday. MaineGeneral says the project should be comp... - read on...

[Sep 22nd 2011] A longtime U.S. Postal Service worker is going to jail for a month for stealing prescription drugs mailed to veterans in Maine. 57-year-old Joseph Skehan of Houlton was sentenced Wednesday in Aroostook County Superior Court. He had worked f... - read on...

[Sep 22nd 2011] A Pittston man accused of threatening his wife and stabbing her dog has admitted he did it. 29-year-old James Macinnes pleaded guilty to domestic violence terrorizing and cruelty to animals Tuesday in Augusta District Court. He was sentenced... - read on...

[Sep 22nd 2011] A Massachusetts man has pleaded not guilty to killing his ex-girlfriend and a long-time friend in Maine. 29-year-old Joel Hayden was in a Portland courtroom Thursday. He's accused of shooting to death the mother of his four children, 27-year... - read on...

[Sep 21st 2011] A former Maine school bus driver is accused of molesting a disabled 6-year-old boy he drove to a camp for children with special needs. The arrest of 45-year-old John Wright of Milton, New Hampshire is linked to videos stored in his computer. ... - read on...

[Sep 15th 2011] Two Bates College students are safe after being rescued from an island in the Androscoggin River between Lewiston and Auburn. Authorities say the two men tried to get to shore on their own but couldn't. Auburn police used a boat to come to t... - read on...

[Sep 15th 2011] About 40 people are losing their jobs at the Portland Press Herald, that's about 15 percent of its workforce. The newspaper blames the layoffs on declining revenues. The job cuts affect managers and union members. The company is reportedly ... - read on...

[Sep 14th 2011] One of three men charged in a triple-killing in western Massachusetts claimed to be a vampire and Satanist after an assault in which he licked a teenager's blood in 1999 in Maine. Roy Gutfinski Jr. changed his name to Caius Veiovis while in pri... - read on...

[Sep 13th 2011] A Maine fire chief says a fire that destroyed four buildings in the town of Grand Isle started when a light fell onto a hot soldering iron. Seventy-two firefighters from eight Aroostook County fire departments battled the Sunday fire that... - read on...

[Sep 08th 2011] The operator of New England's electric grid has scheduled a public meeting to review the 10-year plan for the region's power system. The ISO-New England plan to be discussed Thursday at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston outlines the region's elec... - read on...

[Sep 07th 2011] The attorney for a man charged with setting fire to a Vassalboro topless coffee shop says DNA evidence on a gas can used in setting the fire does not match that of the suspect. The Kennebec Journal says Andrews Campbell made the claim in a pret... - read on...

[Sep 02nd 2011] A 34-year-old Farmington woman is facing charges after police say she sexually assaulted her friend's 13-year-old son. Farmington police arrested Mandy Lynn Thibodeau at her home Wednesday on a charge of gross sexual assault. Police said ... - read on...

[Sep 02nd 2011] Maine utility officials say the number of power outages from Tropical Storm Irene is down to about 700 homes and businesses. Central Maine Power Company says most of the remaining outages are in York, Cumberland and Oxford counties. Meanwhi... - read on...