The girl was bitten on the back of the neck by a dog last week on a trail not far from the Ocean Avenue dog park in Portland.

The collision caused the front of a box truck to erupt into flames but the driver was able to escape out the passenger side door.

They seize $155,000 in drugs, including heroin, crack cocaine, methamphetamines and steroids.

Thousands of newly released Boy Scout files documenting allegations of sexual abuse by scout volunteers include detailed files on eight Scout leaders in Maine who were banned from the organization. The eight represent just a fraction of the so-called “perversion files” involving Scout leaders nationwide. Thousands of those files, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, […]

Reacting to intense opposition from some heavy turnpike users, the turnpike authority plans to give bigger toll discounts for commuters and other heavy users of E-ZPass, at least for the next eight months.

Reacting to complaints, officials raise the discount for commuters from 20 percent to 50 percent for eight months.