SKOWHEGAN — As a social worker, Jeffrey Johnson said he knows well the struggles people face that often lead to homelessness.

AUGUSTA — A report analyzing Maine’s domestic violence-related homicides is “tough reading,” Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday as he and other top law enforcement officials vowed to continue efforts to prevent the crime that accounts for roughly half of the state’s killings.

CHELSEA — Selectmen will ask voters at their annual Town Meeting June 21 to use $90,000 from the wood lot account and raise $45,000 from taxes to pay for a townwide revaluation.

AUGUSTA — The state has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations run by legislative leaders or the spouses of high-level state officials since 2003. But because of a loophole in ethics law, the public didn’t know about it.

RICHMOND — The driver of an ice cream truck who was charged last week with drug possession as he made his rounds was carrying just more than an ounce of marijuana, police said Thursday.

AUGUSTA — A group of about a dozen high school students won’t be going to a gay- and lesbian-themed entertainment event starting today at the University of Maine at Machias.

MADISON — Police are warning people to be careful when asked for money over the phone — even if the person who appears to be asking for help says he’s your grandson.

I can tell you this much: you haven’t lived until you’ve searched for silver in a real ghost town or peed on a tumbleweed in the Mojave Desert.