Thursday, May 23, 2013
WILTON -- Wilton Recycling will pay a $7,500 penalty to the state for the company's role in an asbestos hazard at the former Forster Mill, according to the Department of Environmental Protection.
WATERVILLE -- City councilors approved $3.4 million in spending for the police station project during a special meeting Tuesday, bringing an end to more than two years of planning and debate.
AUGUSTA -- Former Senate President Libby Mitchell of Vassalboro will be honored Friday by the Women's Law Association at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland.
WINTHROP -- Councilor Jennifer Currier has resigned from her seat after less than a year on the job, and a special election to fill the seat will be held Jan. 15.
A Dresden woman has been charged in connection with a string of burglaries this summer in Kennebec County.
AUGUSTA -- A judge on Tuesday concluded that a city man was not criminally responsible by reason of mental disease for stabbing a roommate a year earlier.
Gov. Paul LePage claimed state wouldn't participate in Affordable Care Act exchange, but job description appears to describe exactly that.
A legal fight is taking shape as the agency that is redeveloping the former Brunswick Naval Air Station seeks to exempt one of its tenants from paying property taxes.
AUGUSTA -- A requirement that the superintendent of Augusta schools must live within city limits is under review now that school officials say it was a top reason the quest for a new superintendent has come up empty.
AUGUSTA -- Police on Tuesday continued to search for a robber -- now described as a young man with acne scars and bad teeth -- who held up the pharmacy inside the Civic Center Drive Walmart.
JACKMAN -- The state attorney general has concluded that the shooting death of a Jackman man by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in June was justitified.
Federal prosecutors contended James Cameron was a flight risk when they indicted him on child pornography charges in 2009, but a U.S. District Court judge the following year found no evidence the former prosecutor would flee while he appealed his conviction. 
SKOWHEGAN — The Anson man accused of a 2009 murder had little reaction to the death when police told him about it the day it happened, according to testimony Tuesday. 
The proposal for a facility to accept imported liquid propane even as the price plummets raises questions about its future.
A single winner choosing the cash payout will take home $327 million before taxes.
In a unanimous decision, the Maine Supreme Court rejects Linda Dolloff's claims that the prosecutor misrepresented facts in her 2010 trial.
Higher consumer confidence could translate into a more robust holiday shopping season and stronger economic growth. Consumer spending drives nearly 70 percent of economic activity.
They thought they were in imminent danger during a shootout that left one man dead, the state rules.
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice met behind closed doors Tuesday morning with Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte – three of her harshest critics.
The victim drove the suspect to a TD Bank ATM in North Windham where he withdrew an undisclosed amount of money. 
Obama will meet with small business owners at the White House on Tuesday and with middle-class families on Wednesday.
Mayor Bill Akers last week told a TV station that the coaster would make a "great tourist attraction."
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performed the world's first successful kidney transplant.
The exhumation began before dawn, under the cover of huge sheets of blue tarpaulin draped over Arafat's mausoleum in his former government compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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