Police say the boat was traveling “at a pretty good clip” when it hit a wake, went up into the air and flipped.

The existing Pets Are Worth Saving shelter of Rockport is over capacity and sometimes has to turn pets away, an official says.

PORTLAND — In response to a surge in the number of young homeless people in the city, the Preble Street Resource Center has an outreach team roaming city streets and parks, connecting homeless youths to social services.

WINSLOW — Richard Sidelinger said driving a go-cart in a parade is as much fun as it looks.

WINSLOW — In the hours leading up to the Fourth of July, sales of consumer fireworks were skyrocketing. So were complaints.

FREEPORT (AP) — He’s arguably Maine’s best-known native son, right up there with Civil War general Joshua Chamberlain, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and horror writer Stephen King. To his customers, he was simply known as “L.L.”

SKOWHEGAN — If you aren’t looking for the Dudley Corner Schoolhouse on U.S Route 2 in Skowhegan, you might drive right by it; but a local group is changing that.