PROSPECT (AP) — Fire officials say one person has died in a dump truck collision in Prospect, Maine. WZON-AM says the truck and a car collided Wednesday morning, killing the driver of the car and forcing the closure of Route 1A in Prospect. Chief Deputy Jeff Trafton says the car crossed the center line on […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The U.S. seafood catch reached a 17-year high in 2011, with all regions of the country showing increases in both the volume and value of their harvests. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday that commercial fishermen last year caught 10.1 billion pounds of fish and shellfish valued at $5.3 billion. […]

BANGOR (AP) — A Medway man who tried to run down an Orono police officer, then led police on a 15-mile, high-speed chase in January will get a 10-year prison sentence. The Bangor Daily News reports that Lauren MacArthur pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges including two counts of assault on a police officer, reckless conduct, […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A state Transportation Department worker has been convicted of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of workers compensation benefits by doing strenuous activities at his home when he was supposedly too hurt to work. Clinton Ashby III of Pembroke was found guilty on Tuesday in Kennebec County Superior Court of theft by deception. […]

ORONO — The principal of Orono Middle School inappropriately told staff members to allow some students to alter their answers on a 2011 test used to measure school progress under federal law, according to a Maine Department of Education investigation conducted last year. The principal, Robert Lucy, is now assistant superintendent of the Bangor school […]

In an Aug. 29 email, Matthew Manahan of Pierce Atwood LLP contacted 10 municipalities and six companies he said have an interest in the lawsuit, in which the Indian nation is seeking an injunction to keep Maine game wardens from policing the river and preventing tribal members from engaging in sustenance fishing. The tribe claims […]

BIDDEFORD (AP) — The Biddeford City Council has voted unanimously to seize by eminent domain a convicted double murderer’s ramshackle home and tear it down. The 8-0 vote Tuesday night will allow the city to make the property part of a nearby neighborhood park. Mayor Alan Casavant says the city will pay the current appraised […]

BROWNVILLE — Kind. Gentle. Hardworking. Polite. Neighbors and town merchants used those words Wednesday to describe the Farley family and its 46-year-old matron.Russell Road residents expressed shock that Wendy Farley, 46, was charged Tuesday with criminal solicitation for murder after allegedly trying to hire someone to kill her husband of 30 years.They described Farley and […]