WASHINGTON — Members of New England’s congressional delegation are asking federal regulators for more flexibility in setting cod catch limits for next year as the region’s struggling groundfish industry faces the potential for even more severe cuts.

HALLOWELL — A small grass fire that flared Friday on Interstate 95 was sparked after a tire blew out on a tractor-trailer.

AUGUSTA — A Gardiner contractor said the state owes it almost half a million dollars for repairing a flooded building at Camp Keyes.

AUGUSTA — The father of Dexter resident Amy Lake, who was shot to death with her children in one of Maine’s most horrific domestic violence cases, says electronic monitoring for perpetrators could have saved his daughter’s life.

GARDINER — A man died Friday afternoon after the sport utility vehicle he was driving veered off U.S. Route 201, struck rock ledge and flipped into a metal building.