[Feb 09th 2010] Fairpoint communications is cutting its debt by nearly two thirds through bankruptcy. Court documents call for the company's debt to be reduced to $1,000,000,000, down from $2,800,000,000. Secured creditors will get 92% ownership in the rest... - read on...

[Feb 09th 2010] A former Pleasant Point police chief is accused of stealing more than $10,000 from the Passamaquoddy tribe. 41-year-old Joseph Barnes is charged with felony theft. Authorities say he took the money between April 2007 and May 2008. Barnes ... - read on...

[Feb 09th 2010] A man accused of killing a husband and wife in Webster Plantation appeared in court Monday. 31-year-old Nathaneal Nightengale is charged with two counts of murder in the November deaths of Michael and Valerie Miller. No plea was entered on M... - read on...

[Feb 09th 2010] The Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit handles some of the most horrific types of crimes that involve children, including child pornography. And the amount of cases they investigate keeps piling up. On Monday the unit welcomed two new m... - read on...

[Feb 08th 2010] A spay and neuter program for folks who would otherwise have trouble affording the service for their pets has already run out of money. The program, through the Bangor Humane Society, just started last week. It was funded by donations from thr... - read on...

[Feb 08th 2010] (AP) - Maine State Police have sent a letter to the state's school superintendents offering more visibility from state troopers around their school buildings. The state police chief, Col. Patrick Fleming, said Monday the idea is to increa... - read on...

[Feb 08th 2010] A man from Newport accused of killing his father and assaulting his mother has pleaded not guilty. Monday, 45-year-old Perley Goodrich, Jr., pled not criminally responsible for the crimes by reason of insanity. Goodrich was charged with murd... - read on...

[Feb 08th 2010] Back in July, the Town of Winterport began an ambitious fundraiser. Raise $25,000 in six months, for the new Lafayette Cancer Center in Brewer. Monday, the community learned the results of their efforts. Joy Hollowell reports. ========... - read on...

[Feb 08th 2010] Farmers have been growing potatoes our state for generations. But lots of research goes into making sure Maine's potatoes stay at the top of their game. Monday, we stopped into a baked potato taste-testing. "This one, I really like the col... - read on...

[Feb 08th 2010] The Bangor City Council is hearing an ordinance Monday night to allow residents in the city to own chickens. One of the proponents of the measure says it would allow people to gain more control over their food. "We're just a group of concern... - read on...

[Feb 08th 2010] If you're on the University of Maine Campus from now until Thursday morning, you'll notice something a bit odd looking between the library and student union. A dozen members of the school's division of Habitat for Humanity are camping out in a ... - read on...

[Feb 08th 2010] Two bridges in Camden are expected to be repaired after funding is approved later this year. The Department of Transportation's inspection of two bridges on Molyneaux Road rated one of them poor, the other fair because of eroding concrete guard... - read on...

[Feb 08th 2010] MaineGasPrices.com has been reporting that the average price per gallon of regular gasoline in Maine is docked at $2.73. This price is two cents lower then last weeks prices, which parallel the national tend. However, the national average for regu... - read on...

[Feb 07th 2010] A Seven-Year-Old boy from Ludlow who had been missing for over 6 hours has been found Alive. The Maine Warden Service received a missing-persons call before noon Sunday saying the boy was last seen at home in his bed on Saturday night. The ... - read on...

[Feb 07th 2010] Maine Game Wardens said 22-year-old Chris Arsenault was traveling 4th in a line of sleds in Glenwood when he lost control and had to jump off the snowmobile. As Arsenault tried to get up, the next sled in line hit him in the back. He was flo... - read on...

[Feb 07th 2010] The National Toboggan Championships kick off this weekend, offering an alternative to the formal ceremonies, world-class athletes and blinding media glare of the upcoming Winter Olympics. Held in Camden, Maine, the 20th annual event that kicked... - read on...

[Feb 07th 2010] Maine wardens say a Leeds man had to be rescued from the roof of his pickup truck after his vehicle went through thin ice into a lake in central Maine. Jeff Worster told wardens he drove his truck onto some ice on North Pond in Rome at about 6... - read on...

[Feb 07th 2010] Police say a Maine man is in jail in New Hampshire on charges that he allegedly burglarized a home and made his getaway in a vehicle that he carjacked at gunpoint. Thirty-two-year-old Adam Pento of Sanford, Maine, is scheduled to make a court a... - read on...

[Feb 07th 2010] Some brave people braved the cold weather for the 3rd annual Polar Plunge in Dedham today. The proceeds from the event helps send kids to Camp Capella and Camp Sunshine, who otherwise could not afford to go. "Oh yeah this is about the craziest... - read on...

[Feb 06th 2010] Local celebrities with eggs in their shirts riding on snowmobiles, and all for a good cause. - read on...

[Feb 06th 2010] Police have identified the woman who died in a car crash in Hollis on Friday. 69-year old Marijane Fall of Gorham was traveling on Route 202 just after 3 p.m. When Police say she crossed into the wrong lane and ran head on into another vehicle ... - read on...

[Feb 06th 2010] T-J's family restaurant in Dexter will remain closed until next Tuesday after a fire damaged the restaurant's operation. When firefighters got to the scene on the North Dexter Road around noon yesterday, they saw smoke coming out of the eaves. ... - read on...

[Feb 06th 2010] Residents of Jackson piled into the community center Saturday morning to vote on a proposed wind farm ordinance. The special vote was the result of a petition filed by a group of residents. Members of the planning board spent more than a yea... - read on...

[Feb 06th 2010] A local Seafood Co-op is bringing fresh and reasonably priced seafood to residents. And also keeping the fishing community alive. Meghan Hayward reports. For a second year the Penobscot East Resource Center is doing their community suppor... - read on...

[Feb 06th 2010] A mother and son are safe after plunging through the ice into a frigid lake on snowmobiles. Officials say 47-year-old Lisa Alanis and her son 21-year-old Nicholas Dane were snowmobiling on Messalonskee Lake Friday afternoon when they hit open w... - read on...