AUGUSTA -- Trustees of a Fairfield union's trust fund say that an administrator who died in a car accident earlier this year had stolen more than $260,000 to cover up a theft from an Augusta union's trust fund.
WILTON -- A financial adviser and conservative columnist who resigned from a state commission last year after his arrest on a domestic assault charge was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday afternoon.
WATERVILLE -- The city is getting closer to knowing what it would cost to build a police station at Head of Falls versus retrofitting the Morning Sentinel building for that purpose.
OAKLAND -- Andrew Forster has been tapping his feet since he was a baby in a high chair.
WINSLOW -- Town councilors faced a variety of significant issues during their Monday meeting, some of them contentious.
FAIRFIELD -- About 65 residents approved a 2012-13 municipal budget of $5,458,813 on Monday night, a decrease of $40,540 from a year ago.
PORTLAND -- Representatives from The Nature Conservancy, the Forest Society of Maine and the Plum Creek timber company came together Tuesday to celebrate a new conservation easement that's considered one of the largest ever in the United States.
AUGUSTA -- Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate, despite pressure from groups opposed to MaineCare cuts, passed a budget Tuesday that eliminates health care coverage for more than 20,000 people, cuts prescription drug coverage for senior citizens and reduces funding for Head Start.
FAIRFIELD -- Maine State Police divers returned to Martin Stream on Tuesday to search for the Skowhegan woman missing since her car plunged into the water adjacent to U.S. Route 201 on Saturday night.
SKOWHEGAN -- Residents of the six towns in School Administrative District 54 will get a chance tonight to review plans to borrow $900,000 for health and safety concerns and to get final numbers on the proposed $32.3 million budget for the coming year.
