The drunken-driving case against Scarborough Town Councilor Judith Roy is scheduled to go to trial, though prosecutors and her attorney said a trial remains unlikely.

VASSALBORO — Four letters and more study of his private road stand between Leo Barnett and approval of an expansion of his Old Meadow Road subdivision off Riverside Drive.

AUGUSTA — Lawmakers from both parties welcomed a report Wednesday calling for more aggressive and coordinated efforts to curb prescription drug abuse in Maine.

AUGUSTA — City councilors and Board of Education members will take their oaths of office tonight.

WATERVILLE — A Gardiner man who provided striking testimony late last month in Raymond Bellavance Jr.’s arson trial was arrested Tuesday on charges that he stole money from a city home and fled from police.

AUGUSTA — A Hallowell man on probation for burglary and theft pleaded guilty in court Wednesday to receiving stolen property: a generator that disappeared from the Central Maine Pre-Release Center in Hallowell.

CHELSEA — The supervisor of municipal services at the Maine Revenue Services Property Tax Division has been invited to a Jan. 11 meeting to explain the importance of a professional revaluation of property values.