AUGUSTA — A 15-year-old boy accused of burglarizing several homes on a Togus Pond island and burning one of them to the ground last month was in court Thursday to face those charges for the first time.

MACHIAS — It’s been a cold, wet and foggy spring along the Down East coastline, which doesn’t bode well for the wild blueberry crop.

AUGUSTA — The national problem of home drug labs, mostly making methamphetamine, is growing in Maine and its cost is hitting law enforcement at all levels of government and the state Department of Environmental Protection.

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At 3:03 p.m., an assault was reported at a Western Avenue business.

WAITING ON THE SUN: Heather Cloutier, of Augusta, reclines Tuesday in the flooded parking lot of the boat landing on the Kennebec River in Augusta. Cloutier said she was “waiting for the sun to come out” and the river to recede.