BREWER (AP) — A Brewer man wanted in connection with a pair of pharmacy robberies late last month has been arrested. Police said 35-year-old John Campbell was nabbed as he stepped off a bus Sunday. Police told the Bangor Daily News that Campbell fled soon after the Sept. 29 robberies by boarding a Greyhound bus […]

BANGOR — A series of letters sent to the Department of Education reveals that some teachers and staff at Orono Middle School in 2011 felt pressured by their “often intense and intimidating” principal to have special education students revisit and alter standardized tests after they had been handed in and boxed up. Robert Lucy, the […]

SKOWHEGAN (AP) — A Maine ice cream company has taken home the top ice cream prize at a national dairy product contest for the third straight year. Gifford’s Ice Cream was named the Ice Cream Grand Champion at the 2012 World Dairy Expo, held earlier this month in Madison, Wis. The Skowhegan company won the […]

FREEPORT (AP) — L.L. Bean’s Bootmobile is about to get some more company. This Friday, the vehicle created to celebration the retailer’s 100th anniversary will be joined by the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile as well as promotional vehicles from Lindt chocolates and Peeps marshmallow candies. The four vehicles will cruise up the Maine Turnpike to Freeport […]

HAMMOND (AP) — A 77-year-old eastern Maine man who spent a night in the woods while out hunting has been found, and it appears he is OK. A spokeswoman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said Ralph Bubar of Linneus was found at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday in Hammond after spending more […]