The 35-year-old woman was not injured and authorities have not made a decison on whether to press charges.

The grim assessment comes just three years after a major study showed Gulf of Maine cod rebounding.

The base that at its height was home to 46,000 people is handed over as part of American efforts to move all troops out of Iraq by the end of the year.

Peter Robinson of Bradford is charged with murder in the Nov. 12 beating death of 71-year-old David Trask, of Hudson.

Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, D-1st, is urging the postmaster general to keep open the post office on Portland’s Cliff Island, one of 30 in Maine that the financially troubled postal service is proposing to close to save money. Washington Bureau Chief Jonathan Riskind has the details in his Maine on the Hill blog.

She says the new rule would clarify that biomass will continue to be allowed as a substitute for traditional fossil fuels.

Oak Hill High School was in lock down briefly Friday while police searched the building for drugs.