3:25 PM

The end is near

Assistant House Republican leader Rep. Alexander Willette, R-Mapleton, left, and Republican Leader Kenneth Fredette, R-Newport, confer as the House votes during a session on Wednesday in the State House in Augusta.

8:22 PM

NE BASKETBALL: HALL OF FAME: Amy Vachon earns Hall nod

The game has changed since Amy Vachon led the Cony High School girls basketball team to a pair of Class A state championships and went on to star for the University of Maine. But it's hardly passed her by.

1:00 AM

Our View: Minimum wage boost would help teen fathers

Public discussion of teenage parenthood often leaves teenage fathers on the sidelines. Policymaking, research, media coverage and services generally focus on young mothers and the problems they face as they negotiate both adolescence and child-rearing. Young fathers, meanwhile, are stigmatized as self-centered, irresponsible and unconcerned with their children's needs.

June 17

'Nashville' star Keith Carradine is Maine International Film Festival award winner

Award-winning actor, songwriter, and producer Keith Carradine will be honored at the 2013 Maine International Film Festival with the Mid-Life Achievement Award in July.

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SNAPSHOT: New shoes

Farrier Ann Melville, of Durham, preps a thoroughbred for a new shoe Tuesday in the barn at Pleasant View Farm in Sidney.

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 8:18 PM

Maine Legislature passes well-diluted gun-control bill

Aimed at encouraging background checks before private sales, the bill faces a likely LePage veto.
VoteTRAC: Private gun sales background checks

8:48 PM

Dube pleads not guilty in teenager’s death

Kyle Dube has pleaded not guilty in the death of 15-year-old Nichole Cable.

8:34 PM

Fayette, Litchfield, Mount Vernon approve municipal budgets

Residents in Fayette, Litchfield and Mount Vernon approved municipal budgets at their annual Town Meetings on Saturday.

8:39 PM

Unused, underground water tank removed from Blaine Avenue neighborhood

An 18,000 pound, 35-year-old unused Greater Augusta Utility District water tank was removed from the ground in a Blaine Avenue neighborhood Wednesday after being discovered by a DOT crew.

7:57 PM

3 arrested in Waterville drug bust

Several photos included in this story WATERVILLE -- Three people made initial court appearances Wednesday after police on Tuesday raided a Ticonic Street apartment and seized drugs with a street value of about $40,000.

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7:50 PM

Farmingdale selectmen's race between incumbent chairman and animal control officer

The Farmingdale Town Meeting and election this week will center on the proposed $1,190,941 budget and the election of either Rickey McKenna or James Grant to the Board of Selectmen.

8:56 PM

James Gandolfini, star of 'The Sopranos', dead at 51

Several photos included in this story The oft-praised actor had a stroke while in Italy, according to HBO.

8:16 PM

E.B. White's endless summer still endures in Belgrade

Several photos included in this story Images of author E.B. White's Maine linger, and still hold true today, on the eve of summer.

8:40 PM

Towns across Maine make plans for loss of revenue sharing

Towns across central Maine are preparing for the loss of municipal revenue sharing from the state by passing the burden on to taxpayers, withdrawing from the undesignated fund balance or cutting services.
Database: Potential municipal revenue sharing losses, FY 14

7:04 PM

Harpswell woman takes koi fish fight to Maine's highest court

A Harpswell woman is taking her fight to keep her koi fish to the state Supreme Court in an effort to make the invasive species legal in Maine.

5:54 PM

U.S. tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects 


The Afghan president is angered when the Taliban casts its new office in Qatar as a rival Afghan embassy.

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'Nashville' star Keith Carradine is Maine International Film Festival award winner

Award-winning actor, songwriter, and producer Keith Carradine will be honored at the 2013 Maine International Film Festival with the Mid-Life Achievement Award in July.

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