Cold weather and holidays are taking a toll on Occupy Maine. Only five people attended the daily general assembly at 6 p.m. Thursday in Lincoln Park, far fewer than the two dozen people who were attending earlier this month, and the 30 to 40 people in November and October.

AUGUSTA — Testifying in his own defense Thursday, Raymond Bellavance Jr. said he considered topless coffee shop waitress Krista MacIntyre a “friend with benefits” and was not jealous of her relationships with other men.

STARKS — The town now faces its biggest hurdle yet in its attempt to secede from the school district: a two-thirds majority vote at the polls.

It’s hardly the kind of talk you’d expect from a kid who’s spent the last nine months at the Long Creek Youth Development Center.