Communities meeting standards for business collaboration, licensing and permitting will get formal recognition and extra points in applying for community development block grants.

IN WATERVILLE, Monday at 2 p.m., suspicious activity was investigated on Vallee Avenue. 3:39 p.m., harassment was reported on Gold Street. 5:35 p.m., suspicious activity was investigated on Sturtevant Street. 7:32 p.m., a domestic dispute was investigated on Edgemont Avenue. 8:44 p.m., a protection order violation was investigated at Walmart Supercenter on Waterville Commons Drive. […]

NORRIDGEWOCK — A former town employee who the town manager fired in January is now one of five people on the board of selectmen overseeing the town manager’s work.

The lump sum payment would be $210 million. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million.

The Land Use Regulation Commission regulates development in Maine’s 10 million-acre Unorganized Territory.

The 20-minute closures will take place tonight through Saturday night between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Black students are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to 2009-10 data from more than 72,000 schools serving 85 percent of the nation.