With a $75 million expansion complete and a new airport terminal to fill, the Portland International Jetport is boosting its recruitment of new airlines. And “speed dating” is a part of that strategy. Over three days last week, PWM became a major hub for regional airports, hosting representatives from 12 airlines and 35 airports across […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A 32-year-old Jamaican man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a crack cocaine distribution ring in southern Maine. Rashidi Campbell was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland. He was convicted last December. Prosecutors say that from early 2010 until May 2011, Campbell was part […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — The start of hunting season has some hopeful that hunters walking through Maine woods will find signs of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds. The little girl was reported missing from her father’s house in December 2011. Police believe she’s dead. But followers of a website devoted to finding answers about her disappearance, including […]

KENNEBUNK — A Kennebunk lawyer, a former South Portland mayor and a Kennebunk businessman top the first 21 names of men summoned on misdemeanor charges of soliciting a prostitute. The 21 men were charged between Oct. 5 and 12 in connection with a high-profile case in which police allege Alexis Wright used a Zumba studio […]

Kevin Raye etched himself as a Washington outsider, a conciliator in the mold of his political mentor, Republican U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, whose election would send an authentic Maine small businessman to Washington, D.C. The East Millinocket Democrat and Republican state Senate president from Perry debated Tuesday for the first time since their first matchup […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine State Housing Authority has voted to allow tenants in subsidized housing to continue to use and grow medical marijuana in their homes for another six months. The unanimous vote Tuesday places a 180-day moratorium on a new policy the authority enacted last month banning medical marijuana use. Commissioners have been […]

KENNEBUNK (AP) — The first batch of men charged with being clients of a woman accused of turning her Zumba dance studio into a brothel included a former mayor and men from more than a dozen towns in Maine, as well as one each from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. After initial confusion caused by the […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine agricultural officials are heading to Washington, D.C., to work with the state’s congressional delegation and federal officials regarding the demise of the 2008 Farm Bill. Commissioner Walter Whitcomb says the Farm Bill expired Sept. 30, putting Maine’s dairy producers at risk. He says other programs beneficial to Maine’s potato farmers, blueberry […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A nonpartisan advocacy group says the tax cuts enacted by the Legislature during the past session shifts taxes to middle-income earners and property taxpayers. The Maine Center for Economic Policy on Tuesday addressed an issue that’s prominent in legislative elections, the tax cuts which drop 70,000 low-income Mainers from the tax rolls […]