A plan for Winthrop and Fayette schools to use three top Regional School Unit 4 administrators is dead.

AUGUSTA — State lawmakers will let Maine’s Public Utilities Commission decide whether Central Maine Power Co. customers can choose not to have smart meters installed at their homes and businesses.

AUGUSTA — Bills that would expand Mainers’ rights to carry concealed weapons faced opposition from business groups and public safety and municipal officials Monday during a series of legislative hearings.

GARDINER — Five Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield policyholders gave sworn testimony Monday on their insurance company’s latest request to increase rates, testimony that uniformly denounced the proposed rate hike.

AUGUSTA — A man charged with assaulting his girlfriend just prior to a Saturday fire that damaged a Randolph apartment building remained in jail Monday after making an initial court appearance.

AUGUSTA — The House of Representatives could vote as soon as today on a second supplemental budget to get the state through this fiscal year, which ends June 30.

AUGUSTA — A would-be tenant who claimed a landlord discriminated against her because of her transgender status won support Monday from a human rights panel.

AUGUSTA — MaineGeneral Medical Center’s plans for a new regional hospital in north Augusta are up for potential final Planning Board approval tonight.