AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Corrections plans to relocate its prerelease center from Hallowell to the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren by this spring. Commissioner Joseph Ponte met Tuesday with staff at the Central Maine Pre-Release Center to inform them of the plan. As of Monday, 58 prisoners were assigned to the center, according […]

KENNEBUNK (AP) — Police say they have arrested a woman who is nine months pregnant for allegedly acting as the getaway driver in a Kennebunk burglary that was interrupted by the homeowner. A department spokesman says the victim came home Tuesday afternoon to find an SUV with Florida plates in her driveway, the pregnant woman […]

BANGOR (AP) — Bangor police have charged a man with assaulting a woman with a field hockey stick. Police responded to a 911 call at about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday from a man who said he was attacked by two men and a woman who had knives and brass knuckles. When police caught up with the […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland Museum of Art has finished 2012 with the second-highest attendance in museum history and the highest visitor count in more than a decade. The museum had nearly 178,000 visitors for the year, a 34 percent jump over 2011. The museum set a one-month attendance record in December, when nearly 26,000 […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine mental health agency has been awarded a $1.6 million federal grant that will provide help to children who have been exposed to violence or some other trauma. Community Counseling Center in Portland said the grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will be used to launch the […]

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday called on the members of Maine’s charter school commission to resign, a day after the seven-member panel rejected four out of five applications for new charter schools. The commission’s chairwoman, Jana Lapoint, said LePage “threw us under the bus” Wednesday with no understanding of the commission’s process or […]