ROCKPORT — A North Carolina couple has asked the court to enforce what it said is a deeded right to trim the top of trees on its neighbors’ properties to maintain a view of the ocean. Shirley P. O’Keefe and Edward J. O’Keefe filed the lawsuit Nov. 19 in Knox County Superior Court against neighbors […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s highest court has upheld the conviction of a Maine yoga instructor who’s serving a 16-year sentence for beating her husband with a softball bat and staging it to look like a home invasion. In a unanimous decision, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday rejected Linda Dolloff’s claims that the prosecutor […]

JACKMAN (AP) — Officials say two border patrol agents involved in a fatal shooting entered a home in northern Maine thinking that a woman was still inside and in danger, when in reality she’d already left the residence. The agents, Jamie Tierney and Chris Demanski, returned fire after the occupant, 75-year-old Charles Robinson, fired a […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The largest land-line telecommunications company in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont says it has won a $16 million contract to provide telecommunications services for more than 400 health care facilities in the region. FairPoint Communications says the four-year contract supports the needs of the New England Telehealth Consortium The three-state consortium received […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Eight months after a trio of ticket buyers split a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot to set a world lottery record, Powerball is offering up a prize that would be the second highest. The $500 million jackpot, the largest in Powerball’s history, represents a potential life-changing fortune. But before shelling out $2 […]

GRAY — So many gun dealers called the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, on Black Friday that the system went down twice and was slowed for those who did get through, Maine gun dealers said Monday. Even with the glitches, a record number of guns were sold on Black Friday all […]

DEXTER (AP) — Multiple members of the Dexter Regional High School football team have been suspended for what the principal calls a “serious” hazing incident. The alleged hazing occurred during a postseason sleepover at the school on Nov. 16 and 17. School officials heard about it on Nov. 18. Principal Steve Bell says more than […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles is expanding the number of communities where motorists can renew driver’s licenses at their local AAA branch. Following a successful pilot program in Waterville, the program is being expanded Wednesday to include AAA branches in Portland, Bangor and Augusta. Secretary of State Charlie Summers, who oversees […]