FARMINGTON — Two men who set out separately to hunt birds ended up aiming shotguns at each other after they started arguing over property lines in a remote wooded area Wednesday morning, police said.

Even as the global financial crisis deepens and recovery in the U.S. sputters, the solutions for economic recovery are still very much do-able and are pretty straightforward, panelists at a Colby College forum said Thursday night.

The Senate could vote on the measure as early as this evening.

  NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge today acquitted a police sergeant of a charge he stomped on a dying, mentally disabled man who was gunned down on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina, overturning parts of a jury verdict that convicted five current or former officers of civil rights violations. U.S. District Judge […]

Most of the sailors were caught using the designer drug known as Spice, and 49 were found to be selling it, the Navy said.

  HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut lawmakers held a hearing today on a $291 million funding proposal to help for The Jackson Laboratory build a genetic research lab on the grounds of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. The bill calls for a $192 million forgivable loan and $99 million in research funding from […]

The facility could potentially siphon away some of the 300 jobs the company hoped to create in Brunswick.

PORTLAND — The number of Occupy Maine members camping out in public parks in Portland and Augusta continues to grow. About 30 tents can be found at Lincoln Park in Portland, where members have been sleeping at night. During the day, many can be found at nearby Monument Square holding signs and expressing frustration with […]

The 27-turbine wind farm would straddle Penobscot and Washington counties.