GRAY — Police are dealing with dozens of accidents following Maine’s first snowstorm of the season. A few of the accidents are serious, according to a dispatcher for the Maine State Police barracks in Gray, but most of the accidents in Cumberland and Penobscot counties are simply cars sliding off the road, according to the […]

BANGOR — Few details are available about a fight Wednesday morning on Hammond Street involving three men — one naked and one shirtless — but police said all three were taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center because of their drug use. “Three people were brought to the hospital under some sort of drug,” Bangor police […]

BANGOR (AP) — One of the men charged in the deaths of three Maine residents who were shot then left in a burning car in Bangor has been moved from the Penobscot County Jail to the lockup in neighboring Hancock County. Penobscot Sheriff Glenn Ross did not say why Randall Daluz was moved, but had […]

The allegations were made by Benjamin Hopkins in a court complaint seeking civil protection and full custody of the child he has with Alexis Wright. Wright has custody. Hopkins says in the complaint that Wright is nude in the pictures while the boy was covered from the waist down with only a sheet. The case […]

HALLOWELL (AP) — Electric rates are going down for residential and small commercial customers in Maine. The Maine Public Utilities Commission says new standard offer prices are going down about 8 percent for Central Maine Power customers and more than 6 percent for Bangor Hydro Electric customers as of March 1. The total bill for […]

FREEPORT — Independent Sen.-elect Angus King said the state sent a message to the political establishment by rejecting both major party candidates in the race to succeed Sen. Olympia Snowe and he will begin settling the question of which party he will caucus with during a series of meetings starting next week. The former two-term […]