AUGUSTA — The Augusta State Airport’s main runway will be closed for reconstruction during most or all of May and June, suspending airline Cape Air’s flights there until the work is done, airport officials said.

Teresa Getchell waited 38 years, four months and one week to see for herself that her husband, Air Force Lt. Col. Paul Getchell, had indeed died instantly when the two-man B-57B Canberra bomber he was co-piloting crashed into a mountainside in Laos on Jan. 13, 1969.

GORHAM — An electrical fire that was started by a bathroom fan Thursday night burned through the upper floors of the building that’s home to the Gorham House of Pizza, shutting down the popular restaurant and drawing a state investigator to the town that has been hit by six suspicious fires since late March.

Maine’s unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent last month, up slightly from 7.1 percent in February, marking the second consecutive month in which the rate increased as more people sought jobs, according to the state Department of Labor.