November 8, 2012
IN ANSON, Wednesday at 11:03 p.m., a report of domestic disturbance was investigated on Main Street.
November 8, 2012
AUGUSTA -- The Augusta City Council Thursday night agreed to have city staff study a possible residency restriction for sex offenders and then bring it back to the council for debate.
November 8, 2012

FARMINGTON -- Police will be assigned to enforce the closure of Whittier Road during a football game tonight.
November 8, 2012
NEWPORT -- School Administrative District 19 continues to struggle in its attempts to pay off a $3.6 million dollar debt, and it may have an impact on whether the district can meet payroll and pay other bills next month.
November 8, 2012
CHINA -- Voters in Tuesday's election sent three incumbents back to the Board of Selectmen and rejected a ballot measure related to school district consolidation.
November 8, 2012
WINSLOW -- Fourteen animals were seized Tuesday from a home on Nowell Road after a months-long investigation into alleged neglect, cruelty and inadequate shelter, police said.
November 8, 2012
BRIGHTON PLANTATION -- The community will form an official committee to look into withdrawing from Madison-based School Administrative District 59.
November 8, 2012
AUGUSTA -- A Litchfield man pleaded guilty Thursday to trafficking in marijuana in a case in which police installed a GPS device to follow the trail of the drug from a growing site to his home.
November 8, 2012
OAKLAND -- Police are investigating the break-in of 26 storage units on Rice Rips Road early Thursday morning.
November 8, 2012
MONMOUTH -- Monmouth Academy math teacher Dan Weeks still remembers the thrill of the catch and high of the bounce.
November 8, 2012
OAKLAND -- An Old Waterville Road man was arrested Wednesday morning after police said he assaulted a woman while threatening her with a shotgun.
November 8, 2012
RICHMOND -- A local teenager is back at home a day after he was found passed out and suffering from alcohol poisoning in a ditch along Front Street.
November 8, 2012
GARDINER -- City councilors say they are not interested in moving forward with new restrictions on where some sex offenders can live, despite some residents' pleas it would make their neighborhood safer.
November 8, 2012

Teams of police and power crews are working to help those in New Jersey devastated by superstorm Sandy.
November 8, 2012

AUGUSTA -- Seeing images of cities inundated by floods, homes swept away or burned down and hungry people lined up for food in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Jani Clark couldn't stay put in Maine.
November 8, 2012

AUGUSTA -- Fifty years ago today, Life magazine published a photo of 29-year-old Air Force reservist Joe Cowing getting a shot in his right arm after being called to active duty around the time of the Cuban missile crisis.
November 9, 2012

Charlie Webster says the governor 'made clear that his people were going to run the party.'
November 8, 2012
A local teen is back at home a day after he was found passed out and suffering alcohol poisoning on Front Street.
November 9, 2012

Friends and family describe Jeff Kuller, who died Sunday at 56, as a man who inspired many.
November 8, 2012
Sandy inundated parts of New York City and New Jersey with a storm surge as high as 14 feet, killed more than 100 people and left more than 8.5 million people without power at its peak.
November 9, 2012

Bob Woodward says Angus King won't carry a swing vote in the Senate, but being an independent "enhances his leverage."
November 8, 2012
The town clerk says she has been pressing to have the voting machines replaced for several years.
November 8, 2012

FARMINGTON -- Juan Contreras, the man on trial this week for the murder of 81-year-old Grace Burton changed his plea to guilty on Thursday.
November 8, 2012

While the measures earned broad support from the electorate in Colorado and Washington on Tuesday, they are likely to face resistance from federal drug warriors.
November 8, 2012
Nearly 170 insulators were shot out in a transmission line capable of carrying 10 percent of the electricity used throughout New England.
November 8, 2012

Casey James Fury, 24, of Portsmouth, N.H., waived indictment Thursday morning in federal court and pleaded guilty to two counts of arson.
November 8, 2012
The victim, a 26-year-old man from Newburgh, was treated by paramedics for cuts to his arm and upper torso.
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Theft, harassment, assault
November 8, 2012
Rodney Heath of Otisfield was charged with prohibited contact with a minor after attending a field trip organized by the Oxford Hills Technical School in Paris.
November 8, 2012
Police say Andrew Kierstead told them he fired a shotgun repeatedly at Richard Mills because the victim had hooked him on drugs, but then shut him off for not paying a drug debt.
November 8, 2012

Industry entrepreneurs have plenty of questions about the votes to legalize marijuana in Colorado and Washington state.
November 8, 2012
The $250 million project will update surgery, cardiac, and women and infants services and expand bed capacity from 350 to 411.
November 8, 2012
Richard Wes Coers pleaded no contest this week to a charge of failure to extinguish a fire on Big Spencer Mountain that burned about two acres.
November 8, 2012

Republican governors who derided "Obamacare" will now have to decide whether they somehow can join the team.
November 8, 2012

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair faces charges including forcible sodomy, wrongful sexual conduct and adultery, a crime in the military.
November 8, 2012

Jared Lee Loughner, 24, is sentenced for the January 2011 shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
November 8, 2012

Penobscot Sheriff Glenn Ross has said Randall Daluz was being held under maximum security because of harassment by friends and family of the victims.
November 8, 2012
Zachary Carr, 21, was convicted last year in the January 2010 shooting death of 19-year-old John "Bobby" Surles on a Bangor street.
November 8, 2012
PUC Chairman Tom Welch says the price reductions will lower electricity costs in Maine by about $20 million next year.
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From Brooklyn to storm-battered sections of the Jersey shore and Connecticut, about 750,000 customers in the region were without power in temperatures near freezing.
November 8, 2012

The states have about a year to devise rules for their new systems, which could draw federal wrath.