AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s attorney general says a 60-year-old South Thomaston woman will serve 90 days in jail for failing to pay state income taxes between 2007 and 2010. A District Court judge on Thursday sentenced Gertrude Black to 364 days, with all but 90 days suspended, and one year of administrative release. Black will […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The Human Rights Campaign is donating $225,000 to Mainers United for Marriage as part of its national campaign in support of gay marriage. The donation is part of $1 million in contributions to gay marriage campaigns in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. Mainers United for Marriage said the Human Rights Campaign has […]

BANGOR (AP) — Prosecutors say a Bangor police detective has been issued a summons for operating under the influence. Penobscot County District Attorney R. Christopher Almy confirmed Thursday that Detective Erik Tall was on duty at the time of the alleged incident on Oct. 3. Almy tells the Bangor Daily News a criminal complaint was […]

A state judge declined to stop the release of the names but a lawyer was filing an appeal of that decision Friday. Alexis Wright, a 29-year-old fitness instructor from Wells, has pleaded not guilty to prostitution, invasion of privacy and other charges for allegedly accepting money for sex and secretly videotaping her encounters. Her business […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A one-week wild turkey hunting season using a shotgun starts Saturday in parts of Maine. State officials say one wild turkey of either sex and any age per permit-holder is allowed. Shotguns are allowed in wildlife management districts 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26. Only archery is […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The new top U.S. diplomat for Libya is a Maine resident and Bowdoin College graduate. Laurence Pope has arrived in the county to assume temporary control of the embassy in Tripoli after last month’s deadly attack on the consulate in Benghazi that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. The State Department […]

WINSLOW — A woman used a pair of nunchucks to keep her ex-boyfriend at bay last weekend and the man ended up under arrest, according to police. Christopher Fox, 33, of Winslow had been drinking at the Bob Inn in Waterville on Oct. 6, and later that evening, walked across the Kennebec River to the […]

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is poised to win two of Maine’s electoral votes if the results of a poll released Thursday hold true through the Nov. 6 election. Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in the northern part of the state supports Romney over President Barack Obama by five percentage points, 49 percent to 44 percent, a […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Police are looking for a gunman who chased a female clerk though a store in Portland. The incident, a portion of which was caught on the store’s surveillance video, happened early Wednesday night at Tebb’s Smoke shop. Police said the masked man, holding a handgun, chased the clerk through the store before […]