PORTLAND — Email messages among state officials, representatives of the Maine Heritage Policy Center and others are proof of a “witch hunt” targeting the then-head of the Maine State Housing Authority, according to the political organization Maine’s Majority.

Maine’s largest teachers union is playing a “political game” by endorsing a proposal on November’s ballot to legalize same-sex marriage, Gov. Paul LePage said Friday.

Just a week after Moody’s Investors Service downgraded its outlook on Maine’s economic health, the rival debt-rating agency Standard & Poor’s took the opposite position Friday, improving its outlook on Maine.

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a $20 million research and development bond and let four other bonds go to voters without his signature.

AUGUSTA — A city man, Gary W. Hall Jr., 26, was arrested Thursday on an indictment charging him with burglary and theft.

AUGUSTA — MaineGeneral Medical Center is trimming 47 positions from its staff as a cost-cutting measure to meet its almost $400 million operating budget for the next fiscal year.