AUGUSTA — City workers tore down bleachers while a mason lined up bricks for new ticket booths Friday at Cony High School’s Alumni Field, part of efforts to spruce up the stadium before the fall football season.

AUGUSTA — While city councilors in Augusta have declined to get involved, several municipalities are intervening in a state appeal process and fueling a battle over which of two competing companies will bring natural gas to the region.

AUGUSTA — When Gov. Paul LePage made an unscripted — and apparently incorrect — claim last week about the admissions policy at the College of William & Mary, the governor was drawing upon what a college employee had told him at least seven years ago.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy generated 163,000 jobs in July after three months of weak hiring, a sign it is resilient enough to pull out of a midyear slump and grow modestly as the rest of the world slows down.

SCARBOROUGH — Thirteen-year-old Julianna Poppavasiliou of Saco can’t make Saturday’s Gentlemen of the Road Stopover festival featuring the British folk-rock band Mumford & Sons. However, she did get to attend the next-best thing: an intimate performance by the band at Bull Moose Music on Friday.

Apple sought the long-shot bid as punishment for Samsung Electronics Inc.’s decision to issue a controversial press release on the first day of testimony.