Emergency management officials in Washington triggered the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System on Wednesday, but people glued to iPads, cell phones and PDAs most likely missed it.

Emergency responders planned to resume efforts this morning to keep hundreds of gallons of spilled fuel oil from contaminating sensitive ecosystems in the Fore River.

The former president of M.W. Sewall & Co. diverted state sales and fuel tax money to pay his own salary and business expenses in 2009.

The first national test of the Emergency Alert System will trigger warnings from Maine broadcasters at 2 p.m. today.

SEBAGO — Wardens and a representative of the Maine Attorney General’s Office were back in the woods of Sebago Monday, attempting to recreate the circumstances under which a 46-year-old father of two was killed by another hunter over the weekend.

The accidents happened in Raymond and Oxford this afternoon.

A Maine man convicted of holding two people hostage while in Maine State Prison has died in a New Jersey prison.

United Continental Flight 5864, bound for Washington, D.C., was diverted back to Portland after the pilot reported striking a bird, then took off again after no damage was found.