RICHMOND (AP) — A southern Maine town’s health center says its patients do more than just talk about improving health care. The Richmond Area Health Center says that in the past year, its patients have lost 3,223 pounds — roughly the equivalent weight of 19 average size people or two large horses. The health center […]

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the composite deckhouse for a Zumwalt-class destroyer to the U.S. Navy. Ingalls is building the composite deckhouse and hangar for the DDG-1000 class at the company’s Composite Center of Excellence in Gulfport. The 900-ton deckhouse provides a structure to house the ship’s bridge, radars, antennas and […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — An Augusta man suspected in a series of house breaks has been arrested as he tried to leave the state. Police said 20-year-old Michael Marro was apprehended last weekend at the Augusta State Airport as he attempted to buy a bus ticket. He was ordered held on $10,000 at his initial court […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The cost of home heating oil in Maine has inched up two cents in the past week to an average of $3.70 per gallon. The Governor’s Energy Office announced Tuesday that current prices are 26 cents per gallon higher than at the same time last year. The lowest prices are in the […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Gay marriage supporters in Maine have begun airing new TV ad that features a Republican state representative who voted against same-sex marriage in a 2009 referendum but has since changed his mind. In the ad put out by Mainers United for Marriage, Stacey Fitts of Pittsfield says he now thinks that government […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine state trooper is being recognized for his quick thinking when he stopped an elderly man who was driving the wrong way on a Portland interstate highway at the beginning of rush hour. U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree is presenting a “congressional statement” Wednesday to Trooper Douglas Cropper. Officials say Cropper used […]

PORTLAND — The three leading candidates in the race to fill Sen. Olympia Snowe’s soon-to-be-empty seat clashed Tuesday over outside money pouring into the campaign and the necessity of a tax increase in a spirited debate before business leaders. Independent Angus King suggested that Republican Charlie Summers allowed the floodgates to be opened to more […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The state of Maine is accepting letters of Intent for the possible use of state-owned Interstate 95 and I-295 as corridors for transmitting electricity. State energy Director Ken Fletcher says Maine’s Energy Infrastructure Interagency Review Panel is accepting the proposals. Fletcher says the project can reduce energy costs for Mainers. By law, […]

Independent Angus King suggested that Republican Charlie Summers allowed the floodgates to be opened to more than $4 million in outside spending when he rejected King’s pledge to try to limit spending by so-called super PACs. Summers, meanwhile, accused King, a former Maine governor, of reneging on his pledge not to run negative ads. “Gov. […]