FARMINGTON — A former Jay man serving 15 years in the state prison for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old boy he met at church in 2005 has died according to a release from the state Department of Corrections.

WATERVILLE — City councilors voted 6-1 Tuesday to approve a tax increment financing district and related development program for a proposed natural gas pipeline.

AUGUSTA — Corey Wilson has announced he’s running as a Republican for House District 56, serving the city’s east side and part of the west side.

AUGUSTA — Former legislator Frederick L. Wintle’s expected guilty plea did not come Wednesday because an anticipated hearing in Kennebec County Superior Court was rescheduled for today.

AUGUSTA — Two men pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in an armed home invasion last summer in Manchester where a woman was awakened by a man holding a knife to her throat.

AUGUSTA — A Waterville couple on Tuesday pleaded guilty in court to trafficking in “eightballs” of cocaine.

AUGUSTA — A Florida man admitted in court Wednesday to driving drunk and hitting a pedestrian in Gardiner last summer, breaking both of the man’s legs.

AUGUSTA — Maine will likely have to repay the federal government for providing Medicaid coverage to as many as 19,000 ineligible patients during the past year and a half, Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew said Wednesday.

PORTLAND — Maine’s highest court is asking the state House of Representatives and other interested parties to weigh in on the constitutional questions surrounding the business activity of state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin.