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Maine State Police say a charter bus with 35 people on board overturned on Interstate 95 after the driver fell asleep, and four passengers suffered minor injuries. Police say the bus drifted off the road late Tuesday, overturned and came to rest down an embankment in Burnham. The group was headed to Orono, Maine, from […]

A Maine man is charged with transforming a children’s playroom inside a church into a meth lab. Police arrested 33-year-old Matthew Anderson after discovering items consistent with the manufacture of methamphetamine in the designated playroom at the Buxton United Methodist Church. The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency charged him with unlawful operation of a methamphetamine lab. […]

Testimony is underway in the trial of a Maine man charged with killing his sister’s boyfriend in a late-night confrontation in the family home. Mark Cardilli Jr. waived the right to a jury trial, so a judge will determine his fate. Cardilli said he shot Isahak Muse in self-defense, but an autopsy indicates Muse was […]

CARIBOU, Maine (AP) — A man charged in connection with the deaths of two men in northern Maine has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Thirty-eight-year-old Bobby Nightingale is being held on murder charges stemming from the killings of 25-year-old Allen Curtis and 51-year-old Roger Ellis in August in Castle Hill. The Bangor Daily News […]

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 […]