GARDINER — The city has given final approval to a tax break for a natural gas pipeline project, but there’s a catch.

Competitors in the upcoming U.S. National Toboggan Championships, taking place Feb. 10 to 12 at the Camden Snow Bowl, are keeping tight lipped about their trade secrets prior to race weekend.

ALFRED — Patrick Dapolito lay down on the bathroom floor, spooning the life-size mannequin that was standing in for his dead wife. They always went to sleep in that position, he explained to the detectives, and on this particular occasion, they were lying on their right sides, with his left arm draped over his wife’s body, his face in her hair and a gun in his right hand under his head.

PORTLAND — Flashlight beams cut through the darkness, illuminating a stone bridge overhead and piles of trash on either side of what used to be an active rail line.