April 12, 2012
The claim was reminiscent of Joe McCarthy's 1950s charges that communists had infiltrated the top ranks of the U.S. government.
April 11, 2012
Megan Waterman's body, along with nine others, have been found on a remote beach parkway on Long Island.
April 11, 2012
The juror was dismissed Wednesday, a day after a Standish man was charged with jury tampering for telling one of the jurors to "hang" the defendant.
April 11, 2012
Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity has become the second cable news host whose involvement in the Trayvon Martin shooting case has gone beyond merely talking about it on the air.
April 12, 2012
"Obviously it's not the way we wanted to start," starting pitcher Jon Lester said.
April 11, 2012
The police audiotape is played today in the northern Maine trial of Thayne Ormsby, who is charged in the stabbing deaths of two adults and a 10-year-old boy.
April 11, 2012
Zimmerman chased and shot an unarmed Florida teenager, in a case that has divided the nation.
April 11, 2012
Want to calculate how much you could owe in student loans after graduating from a particular college? A new website provides tools to help with the math.
April 11, 2012
The proposal, which drew opposition from open records advocates, went down by a 34-0 Senate vote today
April 11, 2012
The program provides loans at 4.99 percent interest for energy conservation projects that meet a minimum energy-saving threshold.
April 11, 2012
Police tesitified that Lynn Crossman, 24, said she hit her son for crying while she was arguing with her parents on the phone.
April 11, 2012
AUGUSTA — Water service will be out for some customers along Water Street today as a section of an old water main is replaced.
April 11, 2012
Bruins forward Nathan Horton is expected to miss the playoffs because of a concussion. During last year's Stanley Cup run, Horton had three game-winning goals.
April 11, 2012
Linda Dolloff, the Standish woman convicted of beating her husband with a baseball bat, also alleges the judge erred in allowing certain evidence and statements at her trial.
April 11, 2012
The antitrust suit says Apple and publishers illegally conspired to raise electronic-book prices, costing consumers millions of dollars.
April 11, 2012
Melissa Corey, a cook at Duckfat in Portland, is the second Mainer to win on this reality TV show.
April 11, 2012
Farmington police arrest Brian Sweeney, 31, on charges of burglary and aggravated assault. Shari L. Dupree, 31, was arrested on Monday.
April 11, 2012
A neighbor reported an ice cream truck driving through an area without children, prompting a police stop.
April 11, 2012
Firefighters and nervous residents initially feared that today's fire was the fifth in a string of suspicious fires and that the arsonist had expanded his targeted territory.
April 11, 2012
A police official says the confrontation with the fired driver was the result of a dispute over severance pay.
April 11, 2012
The landlord says the club owners already owe him more than $34,000 in rent, taxes and heating oil just two months after it opened.
April 11, 2012
Reducing reliance on fossil fuels will make the military more efficient and save lives, officials say, noting that many casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan involve convoys hauling fuel to battle areas.
April 11, 2012
Americans face nearly seven months of hard-hitting jabs and counterpunches between the two parties' standard-bearers.
April 11, 2012
This year's show includes more than 170 exhibitors inside the civic center auditorium, and outside in the parking lot.
April 11, 2012
Zach Tomaselli, 23, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a boy who attended a Maine camp where Tomaselli was a counselor.
April 11, 2012
An 8.6 earthquake in the ocean prompted a tsunami alert, causing tens of thousands of residents flee to higher ground.
April 11, 2012
MANCHESTER -- A man suffered second- and third-degree burns Tuesday in an explosion that occurred while he was attempting to saw an old fuel tank in half.
April 11, 2012
MONMOUTH -- Gustavo Duran and his son Michael are thankful to be alive after escaping unscathed from a fire that destroyed their Pleasant Street home early Tuesday morning.
April 11, 2012
AUGUSTA -- The Maine State Employees Association is concerned that the state is hiring private contractors for too many jobs without notifying the union.
April 11, 2012
HALLOWELL -- State regulators on Tuesday approved a multi-million-dollar deal that could fund construction of hundreds of wind turbines in Maine and the Northeast, despite a staff recommendation to reject the proposal.
April 11, 2012
SOUTH CHINA -- Linda Martin figures she's probably out the roughly $800 she paid Pinkham's Corner Fuel this winter for heating oil she didn't get, but still counts herself among the lucky ones.
April 11, 2012
CHELSEA -- Town officials hope volunteers will stop by the Town Office to pick up nomination papers for seven open seats on the new Board of Assessment Review.
April 11, 2012
CHINA -- Selectmen have agreed unenthusiastically to put a home occupations ordinance on the June ballot, while a proposed revamping of the shoreland septic system compliance program remains in limbo.
April 11, 2012
AUGUSTA -- A scaled-down version of Gov. Paul LePage's $38 million supplemental budget that makes less severe cuts to General Assistance will come before the Legislature this week.
April 11, 2012
AUGUSTA -- In a whirlwind meeting Tuesday, the Legislature's Transportation Committee heard testimony on, debated and passed a bill to deter irresponsible driving among teens.
April 11, 2012
AUGUSTA -- Questioning why lawmakers weren't told sooner about costly computer problems in the Department of Health and Human Services, a legislative panel voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize an investigation of the department.
April 11, 2012
AUGUSTA -- A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a series of theft charges, including one in which she clogged a toilet in Rite Aid in Waterville with packaging from items that she had shoplifted from the store.
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