VASSALBORO — Tammy Gidney’s family has its television back, a little wobbly and a little scratched, but she feared it would turn out much worse as she watched her husband fight with the burglar trying to steal it from their home during the wee hours Wednesday.

NAPLES — Drivers in a caravan of antique cars honked their horns and waved to the hundreds of onlookers who hung over the rail of the new bridge between Brandy Pond and Long Lake on Friday afternoon.

AUGUSTA — Explosive material that authorities say they seized from a Gage Street home Thursday is likely a compound known as “mother of Satan” to Islamic extremists for its instability and can be made easily from household items.

AUGUSTA — Kennebec Valley Humane Society workers arrived at the shelter Thursday to find several boxes of abandoned cats and kittens outside.

IN ANSON, Friday at 10 a.m., a harassment complaint was investigated on Randall Street.