AUGUSTA — About 35 shoppers waited anxiously around the fountain in Market Square, each with $20 just waiting to be spent on something, somewhere downtown.

AUGUSTA — Short, torn-up Bond Street is due for nearly $190,000 in repairs and improvements once the dust settles on a major construction project putting utility pipes underneath the street.

AUGUSTA — A North Carolina company that agreed to preserve a historic arsenal in Augusta has failed to do so and could be sued if doesn’t take steps by Oct. 1 to prevent further damage, the Maine attorney general’s office said.

Maine Republicans say they are ramping up the Mitt Romney for President campaign in northern and western Maine in hopes of winning one of the state’s four electoral votes.

SKOWHEGAN — State Police Sgt. AJ Carter had a Polaroid instant camera with him July 5, 1980, when Rita St. Peter’s body was found off Campground Road in Anson.