By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine marijuana enthusiasts will probably be able to purchase their preferred products in retail stores by March 2020 after years of waiting. Voters approved legal adult-use marijuana at the polls in November 2016, and the road to legal sales has been long and bumpy. But a […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gas prices are continuing to fall in northern New England. The latest GasBuddy price reports show New Hampshire’s prices dropped 2.2 cents per gallon in the last week, to $2.45. Vermont’s went down 1.4 cents, to $2.62 per gallon. Maine’s price also fell slightly, to $2.52 per gallon. The national average […]
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A United Airlines flight with more than 200 people aboard has made an emergency landing in Maine. A United spokesman says a cabin pressure issue diverted the Amsterdam-bound Flight 986 that had left San Francisco on Sunday afternoon to land in Bangor early Monday, local time. The spokesman says the 13 […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Maine says it should be able to release a cause of death soon in the case of a body found in Greenland Cove near Bremen. The Maine Marine Patrol announced the discovery of the body of a man on Monday. A spokesman for […]
MOUNT DESERT, Maine (AP) — Police say a man has been killed in a head-on collision on Maine’s Mount Desert Island. Police tell WABI-TV that 72-year-old Edward Wells, of Bar Harbor, was pronounced dead at the scene Tuesday afternoon in the town of Mount Desert. Police report that the driver of a vehicle that crossed […]
BREWER, Maine (AP) — A Maine company that spun off from the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center aims to make bridge construction faster, cheaper and more durable. Advanced Infrastructure Technologies in Brewer has created a composite bridge support that will be used for the first time next year for the new Grist […]
Federal agriculture officials are set to disperse rabies vaccine baits targeted at raccoons across a wide swath of northeast Maine. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spread the baits over a 2,405-square-mile area by land and air-drops between Saturday and Aug. 7. Raccoons have the highest number of rabies cases in the eastern U.S. A […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — It’s been a slow lobster season so far in Maine, but the lack of crustaceans isn’t translating into high prices for consumers, and fishermen are still hopeful for a bump in catch this summer. The harvest of the valuable bottom dwellers in America’s biggest lobstering state is usually in full swing […]
ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — Police say the driver of a pick-up truck has died following a crash. WABI-TV reports that the man died at the scene of the Thursday afternoon crash on Route 1A in Ellsworth. Police have not released the man’s name. A passenger of that truck and the driver of another vehicle received […]
WATERBORO, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police detectives are investigating the deaths of a couple from Waterboro as a murder-suicide. Police says the bodies of Christal and Christopher Denis, who were both 45, were found in their home on New Dam Road just before 8 p.m. Saturday by York County deputies who had been called […]
