Thursday, May 23, 2013
Waterville and Winslow high schools, average according to the state's new grading system, are ranked among the top 12 in the state by a national magazine.
As Kyle Dube is formally charged with killing Nichole Cable, 15, the judge seals an affidavit with case details.
Home sales, and prices, across the state are on the rise, according to April sales data and local real estate agents, and central Maine is seeing the results.
People chant at the start of a lunchtime rally to protest Gov. Paul LePage's budget plan on Wednesday, on the plaza outside west entrance of the State House in Augusta. 
ALCOM, a Winslow trailer manufacturing company, calls claims by labor groups that it has illegally fired employees for trying to form a union "very false."
With Memorial Day near, lawmakers are stepping up efforts to address a backlog that has some veterans waiting years to receive disability claims.
Gov. LePage looks poised to veto the popular hospital payback plan in order to block Medicaid expansion.
Edwards-United Technologies, of Pittsfield, was one of five businesses in the state recognized by the governor's office and the state Department of Environmental Protection with a 2013 Environmental Excellence award Wednesday.
Christopher Knight, 47, the man known as the North Pond Hermit, will not be in Kennebec County Superior Court Wednesday as scheduled, on charges of burglarizing Pine Tree Camp in Rome.
In February, summer seems like just a legend. In May when the lilacs open out it’s clear the legend is coming to life, and for a few months, winter is the ancient myth. So is it written.
The Solar Impulse is making the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across the country.
Real Bronx Tours took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life in the South Bronx "from a safe distance." 
Major construction on Water Street will cause economic disaster in downtown Hallowell, several business owners said at a public forum on Wednesday.
Rodney Bouffard will replace Patricia Barnhart, who was fired earlier this year.
The boss of tax workers who improperly screened conservative groups says she did nothing wrong.
A Maine blogger will follow the British boy band around the U.S., report on its concerts and be paid to do so.
Police say Nichole Cable, 15, was killed by a 20-year-old Orono man, whom she may have dated at some point.
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The judge tells the jurors to try to work through their differences Thursday, or else a new jury must be seated.
Authorities estimate the damage at as much as $2 billion, with as many as 13,000 homes damaged or destroyed.
Gary Bird says he's '98 percent sure' there are no more survivors or bodies to recover under the rubble. The twister killed 24 people.
Somerset County filed a civil suit against the state Board of Corrections on Tuesday for payment of more than $280,000 the county contends it is owed for operations at the Somerset County Jail.
In an ultra-bloody attack, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks.
Ibragim Todashev, a mixed martial-arts fighter, was fatally shot after lunging with a knife at an FBI agent who was questioning him at his Florida townhouse, police say.
Teachers and administrators took issue on Tuesday with the weight given to student assessments in proposed regulations for teacher and principal evaluations.
The New England Economic Partnership says external factors such as Europe's recession and federal spending cuts are crimping the region's economy.
The House and Senate approve a bill that would pay state hospitals back $186 million, and give basic health coverage to 60,000 Mainers using federal dollars.
If lawmakers want to be consistent, they should submit a bill to 'outlaw tobacco altogether' instead of just banning smoking in certain places, he says.
The men say they just learned that church officials knew a priest was molesting children and did nothing to stop it.
'I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down, but I also learned some tough lessons,' he says in a YouTube video.
The commissioner takes responsibility for the failure to come clean on the targeting of groups.
They oppose a bill that would allow carrying concealed weapons without a permit, which would also do away with background checks.
NorthStar ambulance employees Jeremy O'Neil, Steve Grant and Harold Schaetzle were recently honored by Rangeley Fire and Rescue for rescuing an injured man 30 miles from their base and transporting him 64 miles to the nearest hospital.
Shane Dolph Gurney, 36, of Jackman, is facing felony charges after police said he stole a car on Main Street on Monday and destroyed it in a crash about 20 miles away.
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