AUGUSTA — A local woman hit late last week by a Jeep as she walked on the sidewalk along North Belfast Avenue continued to cling to life Monday in a Portland hospital.

AUGUSTA — At the Kennebec County Correctional Facility, strip-searches can be conducted on people arrested for violent, weapon-related or drug-related offenses, and when the person authorizing the search has “reasonable suspicion that the arrestee is concealing on or inside the arrestee’s body a weapon, contraband or evidence of a crime,” according to the written search procedures at the jail.

AUGUSTA — Lawmakers failed to muster enough votes Monday to revive a bill intended to address mortgage foreclosures in Maine — a measure that Democrats said would protect consumers from losing their homes to large mortgage companies that may not legally own them, but Republican Gov. Paul LePage said would create red tape for businesses.

WALES — The proposed $17.8 million school budget for Regional School Unit 4 goes to a workshop session tonight as the board prepares to vote later this month.

BELGRADE — A Chelsea woman is facing charges that she punched a sheriff’s deputy in the face, breaking his nose.

At 4:36 p.m., there was a crash involving injury at Commerce and Civic Center drives.

NORRIDGEWOCK — The governor has signed a bill to allow the last remaining commercial landfill in Maine to expand.