GROTON, Conn. (AP) — A fire-damaged submarine is expected to return to Navy service by the middle of 2015 following the replacement of cables, pipes and other scorched interior components, the Navy’s top officer said Wednesday. Navy Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the chief of Naval operations, said the military concluded the USS Miami can carry enough […]

Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster said Tuesday evening that negotiators with the National Republican Committee were nearing a deal that would seat Maine’s delegates for Ron Paul at the national convention next week in Florida. But, Mark Willis of Dennysville, a newly elected member of Maine’s national convention delegation, Ron Paul supporter and incoming […]

CLINTON (AP) — Police say the death of 3-month-old girl while under the care of a baby sitter in Fairfield is now being investigated as a homicide. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said Tuesday that police are working with the state medical examiner’s office to investigate the July 8 death of Brooklyn […]

BIDDEFORD (AP) — Need a crucifix? A picture of Pope John Paul II? A set of pots and pans? Those items and a lot more collected from three closed Catholic churches are up for grabs at a yard sale later this week. The sale will be held Friday and Saturday outside St. Mary’s Church in […]

AUGUSTA — The owner of the Augusta construction company that faces fines of more than $9,000 stemming from alleged workplace violations involved in the death of a worker on a job site last May says he won’t pay the fines and that the government is “the biggest bully there is.” Linwood Stover, owner of Kennebec […]

BANGOR — When the victim learned the man she had looked up to as a father figure had placed a hidden camera in the bathroom and captured some of her most private moments, the girl’s life turned into “something you’d see in the movies.” That is what the Hancock County teenager Tuesday told a federal […]

BOSTON (AP) — Gold-medal winning Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman has signed her first major endorsement deal since returning from the London Olympics. The Needham, Mass. native this week signed a one-year deal to endorse Maine-based Poland Spring water. The 18-year-old Raisman, who won two gold medals and a bronze, says endorsing another New England institution […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Human Rights Commission has ruled that a veteran Waterville police sergeant was wrongfully fired while he was battling cancer. The commission ruled 3-1 this week that there were reasonable grounds to find that the city discriminated against Sgt. Jeffrey Bearce by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation for him, such […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Portland Public Schools will no longer use Styrofoam trays in their cafeterias beginning this school year. The Portland district will replace them with paperboard trays. The additional cost of $30,000 annually will be offset by savings anticipated from district recycling and composting programs. Reusable plastic trays will be used once a new […]