AUGUSTA (AP) — A legislative committee has questions about a plan to terminate a van pool that program that serves about 250 commuters on 27 routes across Maine. The Government Oversight Committee on Tuesday was to hear a request for a review of the state Transportation Department’s plan to end the GoMaine program, which is […]

BANGOR (AP) — A 41-year-old transient accused of fatally stabbing another man during a fight in May has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. Jason Alan Trickett was ordered held on $50,000 bail at his arraignment Monday at the Penobscot Judicial Center. He has been held, unable to make bail, since his arrest in June. Trickett […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A New York City native with an Ivy League pedigree and decades of experience running museums has been named the new director of the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The chairman of the Maine State Museum Commission said in a statement Monday that 62-year-old Bernard Fishman has been named to succeed Joseph […]

SKOWHEGAN (AP) — Maine public health officials say the number of confirmed whooping cough cases in the state continues to grow as the age of those affected also rises. Dr. Sheila Pinette, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control, says most cases early this year were in children, but now an increasing number of […]

BANGOR (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which launched attack ads against independent Angus King, is hosting several events in Maine in support of King’s GOP opponent, Charlie Summers. The chamber’s national political director, Rob Engstrom, is appearing at events Tuesday on Summers’ behalf in Bangor, Lewiston and Biddeford. The chamber spent more than […]

A person is visible on video surveillance images taken from Automatic Distributors, employee Gary Shaw said. “They did see one person running away,” he said at about 10:10 a.m. Shaw stepped out of the building to see Bangor’s three mobile crime units moving into the business’s parking lot. He said he saw the store’s video […]

PORTLAND — Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is attacking Maine’s supply-and-demand lobster crisis from a demand side, urging the heads of large cruise ship companies to buy up the crustaceans to serve to their thousands of passengers. “This could be a big untapped market for wholesalers in the area,” Pingree said in a statement Monday. “And […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine medical examiner’s office has identified skeletal remains found in Portland, but the cause of death has yet to be determined. Officials said Monday that the remains were those of 31-year-old Toina Hanson, and they’re seeking to talk to anyone who had contact with her over the past year. The case […]