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The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports the status of cases daily.

Police said the 16-year-old driver, who was hurt in the crash, was unlicensed. His identity was not being released Sunday afternoon.

Maine ranked fifth in a list of states where heavy opposition to face coverings were observed on the social media platform.

A man and a woman from Sanford traveling north in a snowstorm died in the crash as the pickup they were in landed on the road below the overpass and caught fire.

A 7-year-old girl is taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Maine Medical Center. Waterville police block off Summer Street between Gray and Gold streets and go door-to-door asking residents if they have cameras.

Kennebec County Sheriff's Lt. Chris Read said the identity of the man is being withheld while his family is being notified.

Skowhegan police Chief David Bucknam said that Michael S. Gilbert Jr. died at the scene of a motorcycle accident on Madison Avenue on Monday afternoon.

Police on Tuesday night were using a loudspeaker to communicate with a person who was barricaded inside a vacant house near 150 College Ave.

Robert Wade, 25, was found dead Tuesday night in his apartment on Heath Street in Oakland, police say.

Meanwhile, of 4,500 employees in the MaineGeneral Health system, about 140 are expected to be working from home, once software is set up for them to do so.

Jared D. Jandreau, 35, of China, and Jessica E. Cox, 31, of Augusta, were indicted Friday by a Kennebec County grand jury.

Gavin T. Loabe faced an aggravated assault charge in court Monday, as testimony alleged that Loabe and an unnamed accomplice were involved in a shooting that mistakenly injured a 7-year-old girl inside a Summer Street home.

Police say a 63-year-old man who was being extorted by people living at the same apartment building was taken to the hospital Tuesday after being beaten and robbed of his wallet.

Adam Stalilonis' part-time rural route has seen a major uptick in online ordered packages, causing him to work extra hours for no pay, a situation he has been told affects more than 1,500 routes in northern New England.

There may be myriad reasons a crow recently died in the backyard, but speculation about what the birds symbolize and mean pose interesting questions, Amy Calder writes.

The Maine Center for Disease Control says the man's case wouldn't be counted for Somerset County, which remained at zero confirmed cases as of Thursday, because federal rules go by a person's primary residence.

Learning that a man and woman who were not supposed to have contact with each other were in a motel room on Kennedy Memorial Drive early Tuesday, police knocked on the door and found them, another man and woman who were not to have contact with each other, and drugs.

Effective Saturday, March 21, most stores will now be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, with a few closing at 8 p.m. on certain days.

Catherine Weeks has called city police on her Iraqi-born neighbors, who allege in court documents that she tells them they are not welcome in her white, American neighborhood — charges that Weeks denies.

Jeremiah Gamblin was arrested Friday on a warrant, but charged Monday with elevated aggravated assault in connection with a drive-by shooting Feb. 28 that injured Emahleeah Frost, 7, of Waterville.

A union representative said the shipyard has taken steps to isolate and control the pest problem.

The South End Neighborhood Association called an emergency meeting Saturday morning to discuss how to support families following the shooting of 7-year-old Emahleeah Frost inside a home Friday.

'The damage is done. Those machines aren’t coming back,' says the local union president.

A task force is recommending limiting the size of ATVs allowed on the state's trails, but that might not be enough to keep some corridors from closing.

Maine Made & More and Eric's Restaurant in Waterville and The China Dine-ah in China are among businesses that did not survive the pandemic.