BANGOR — Police said a Shriner from Vermont suffered a head injury when he crashed while testing a small go-kart before a parade in Bangor.

WASHINGTON — Farmers from Maine and other New England states were making the rounds on Capitol Hill last week as part of a last-minute campaign to pressure Congress to complete work on a new five-year Farm Bill before the current one expires at the end of the month.

WASHINGTON — Can a political gaffe in America’s heartland change the dynamics of a Senate race roughly 1,500 miles away in Maine?

In the last few years, Cumberland officials have hired an economic development director, streamlined the project-review process, launched a local business association and started recruiting companies to move to the rural coastal town.

CAMDEN — As debate about the same-sex marriage referendum swirled around Maine, the social hall of Our Lady of Good Hope church was a bastion of Catholic conviction after Mass last week.