Air Force Tech Sgt. Matt Bolduc, a counterintelligence special agent, neutralized a Taliban attack strategy in Afghanistan, earning him the military’s fourth-highest honor.

Kelli Murphy, now 12, of Fairfield, is accused of killing 3-month-old Brooklyn Foss-Greenaway in July 2012.

Openings at Maine Academy of Natural Sciences and Cornville Regional Elementary School are being filled through a lottery this year and administrators are considering classroom expansions.

L.D. 1810, which failed on a party-line vote, was pushed by a Vassalboro man and seeks to increase the penalty for some uninsured drivers.

Dennis Brassard was charged with aggravated trafficking after marijuana was found in his car, police said.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys will argue in a closed-door hearing about whether manslaughter defendant Kelli Murphy, now 12, is competent to stand trial.

Mei Juan Zhang of Fairfield will serve 14 months in prison on charges including that she housed more than a dozen undocumented immigrants in a condemned Waterville house that had no heat and broken pipes.

Military veterans help, and are helped by, projects to improve trails and rivers, supporters say of a trend that is creeping into the Northeast.

Maine 201 Antiques, which has large amounts of items on display, has been ordered to clean up its yard or face more penalties.