WASHINGTON — On the National Mall in Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. is a towering, heroic figure carved in stone. On the Broadway stage, he’s a living, breathing man who chain smokes, sips liquor and occasionally curses.

MADISON — School Administrative District 59 must now determine how to recover from the loss of one of its four towns after Starks’ overwhelming vote to secede last week.

CARRABASSETT VALLEY — A 24-year-old New Hampshire man with a head injury was flown to the hospital after he skied into a tree Saturday afternoon at Sugarloaf ski resort, police said.

AUGUSTA — The battle over management of Maine’s North Woods may be one of the fiercest and longest-running feuds in the state Legislature.

IN FAIRFIELD, Saturday at 6:39 p.m., a report of threatening was investigated on Mountain Avenue.

WHITEFIELD — A successful show year turned out to be a dream come true for a Friesian horse trainer in Whitefield.