PORTLAND (AP) — Maine is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Baxter State Park. On Aug. 6, 1962, former Gov. Percival Baxter acquired the 28th and final parcel of land that would constitute the northern Maine park named in his honor. Baxter, who was from Portland, deeded the land to the state as a gift the […]

“So where are we going?” he asks rhetorically. “We’re going Camden. Should be there in three days.” In other words, there is no itinerary. All we know is that our journey will end right back here where it’s starting, in Camden Harbor. Where we go between now and then will mostly depend on the wind […]

BANGOR — Detectives trying to find out who is responsible for the deaths of three people found a week ago in a car that was left ablaze in a dark parking lot are following out-of-state leads, Bangor Sgt. Paul Edwards said Tuesday. At the same time, rumors circulating that the three were on a hit […]

HERMON — A Bangor woman injured in a three-vehicle collision on Union Street that occurred Saturday afternoon has succumbed to her injuries, her son said on Tuesday. “My mother passed away [Monday] afternoon,” Mike Savage of Bangor said of Mary Savage, 83. Mary Savage had been on life support in the intensive care unit at […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s two U.S. senators are raising the abortion issue, which Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would prefer to keep in the background. Sen. Olympia Snowe wants the presumptive nominee to repudiate the Republican Party’s strict anti-abortion platform when he gives his national convention speech this week. Snowe, who’s leaving the Senate at […]

ORONO — Frustration and worry surfaced among the 12 members of the legislative committee that has jurisdiction over the merger of two state agencies that will create a new Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. During the committee’s meeting Monday at the University of Maine, Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources Commissioner Walt Whitcomb […]

BANGOR — Roxanne Quimby’s son is asking the Penobscot County commissioners to delay a planned decision Tuesday whether to support or oppose Quimby’s proposed 70,000-acre national park. Lucas St. Clair wrote in a letter dated Sunday to the commission that officials from Elliotsville Plantation Inc., the nonprofit foundation he describes as working to conserve land […]

OAKLAND (AP) — Independent U.S. Senate candidate Angus King has expressed support for The Bank of Maine, where he once served on the board of directors, and which was criticized by federal regulators for “unsafe and unsound” practices. King said Monday during a tour of Kennebec County that he stepped down in April after 18 […]