Messalonskee runner Zachariah Hoyle runs over a bridge during the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference cross country championships Saturday at Cony High in Augusta.

Sen. George Mitchell begins his talk, "Mudslinging and Mutual Respect: How to Make Politics More Civil," during a Maine Council of Churches event in Waterville on Thursday.

College of the Atlantic professor Todd Little-Siebold removes items from the wreckage of a school van that had nine students and staff inside when it collided with another van after turning on to the Crosby Brook Road in Thorndike. The CoA group was headed to an event at the Maine Organic farmers and Gardeners Association on Sunday. Little-Siebold said the students in the school van were shaken but suffered relatively minor injuries.

Madison Junior High School physical education teacher and Yankees fan Janice Vining looked shocked when former New York Yankees manager Stump Merrill surprised her during a celebration ahead of her for her upcoming retirement on Wednesday.

Nancy Sousa takes a photo Tuesday of foliage near her home in Mount Vernon. Sousa said she's photographing the turning leaves in town and sending them to her daughter, Sherri Northrup, in Arizona to see if she can identify the location.

Winslow goalie Hope Winkin stretches to block a shot that went ultimately wide by Gardiner's Sarah Foust during a Class B North semifinal game Tuesday at Somerville Field in Gardiner.

Jim Norton cleans the nozzles of a spray gun Tuesday at his farm in Farmingdale. Norton used the gun to prime the engine and frame of a 1953 International tractor that he's rebuilding. The tractor is one of "too many" tractors he has rebuilt at his farm, he said.