Martin Luther King Day will be marked with a number of events in Maine, where the civil rights leader's birthday is also officially observed.
State and Federal offices are closed Monday.
In York, a Martin Luther King Day of Service will be held by the Diversity Forum. The featured speaker, Kar . . .
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A Lee man has been arrested and charged with arson.
State Police and agents from U.S. Border Patrol responded to a report of a car on fire in Bancroft.
Police say they discovered 33-year-old Shawn Birtz was under the influence of bath salts and hallucinating.
They say he had set his girlfri . . .
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The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the York County Sheriff's Office broke up a suspected drug-making lab in the basement of a home Saturday in Lebanon.
Police arrested 41-year-old Aaron Lowden, who they say is a homeless man from the Augusta area.
Lowden was charged with bail violation and . . .
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A Bath man has been charged with sexual abuse of a minor.
Police say 21-year-old Andrew Mank used social media sites on the internet to woo underage girls.
They say he's charged with a case involving a 14-year-old girl, but additional charges are pending involving two more girls in Harpswell. . . .
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Kids were seeing just how fun reading can be at the Maine Discovery Museum Saturday.
A literacy festival was taking place, which was geared toward kids from RSU 3, but also welcomes other children.
It's a three day event and has activities for newborns all the way up to fifth graders.
Autho . . .
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Pro-life supporters packed an auditorium in Augusta on Saturday. They were brought together by the Maine Right to Life Committee for the Hands Around the Capitol rally. Each year the rally recognizes the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, which was decided on January 22, 1973.
"For 39 years now, our . . .
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An inmate serving time for writing a threatening letter to Governor Paul LePage now if being accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama.
Thirty-one-year-old Leroy Dunn pleaded guilty to terrorizing last February for the LePage letter, which he wrote while in the Piscataquis County Jail . . .
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A Portland man has been arrested on robbery charges.
Police say 57-year-old Paul Ramsey is accused of robbing a CVS Pharmacy on Friday afternoon.
They say he demanded prescription medication and made off with several bottles of pills.
Police say they found a man at a nearby intersection fit . . .
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An East Machias man has been arrested on drug charges.
Maine Drug Enforcement Agents arrested 28-year-old Arthur Worster Thursday afternoon for selling prescription painkillers.
Officials say on two days in late December two drug agents purchased OxyContin from him at his home.
Worster is c . . .
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It's almost tax time and help is available.
AARP representatives will be at Spectrum Generations in Rockland offering income tax assistance every Friday beginning February 3rd.
The service is free, but donations to the center are appreciated.
Anyone interested must make an appointment. You . . .
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