WINTHROP — A local man faces several charges after threatening to kill his roommates with a machete during a dispute over money, police said.

The handicap accessible van destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon at a Litchfield garage was the latest setback for a family that has become all too familiar with them in recent years.

CMP spokesman John Carroll said Friday morning that crews had restored power to a total 95,000 customers since Thursday.

AUGUSTA — A fire Tuesday afternoon that ruined a four-unit apartment building and left 13 people homeless started on in a bedroom on the fourth floor, investigators have determined.

AUGUSTA — More than a dozen people, including at least three young children, were left homeless Tuesday afternoon by a fire that destroyed the roof and upper floors of an old Penobscot Street apartment building.

AUGUSTA — A city man is facing growing and trafficking drug charges after police said they seized more than 100 marijuana plants from his Chamberlain Street apartment.

FARMINGDALE — Sheriff’s deputies and state troopers are searching for a woman who robbed the Circle K convenience store at gunpoint Sunday night.