AUGUSTA — It was an energizing experience for Ken Fletcher.

There are three things you don’t want to do with unwanted medications: keep them at home, flush them down the toilet, or put them in the trash.

FARMINGDALE — The Kennebec Valley Council of Governments wants to establish a subcommittee to work with a consultant to discuss what kind of a tax-increment financing designation could be given to the Kennebec Valley Gas Co. if they move forward with a natural gas line that would run from Richmond to Madison.

BIDDEFORD — A single-engine plane crashed into a home here Sunday night and set it on fire.

WASHINGTON — One budget deal down, President Barack Obama and Congress began to pivot Sunday from the painful standoff over this year’s spending to a pair of defining debates over the nation’s borrowing limit and the election-year budget.

Bicycle advocates are upset about a bill in the Legislature that would impose a 2 percent surcharge on retail bicycle sales. The bill’s sponsor says his proposal is intended to solve problems created by a law, passed two years ago, that requires drivers to steer at least 3 feet clear of cyclists, which can be impossible.