Elizabeth Knight releases a Chinese lantern Sunday evening with her mother, Hope Edwards, during a fundraiser in memory of Amanda Edwards at Erskine Academy in China. More than 100 lanterns were sold to classmates and friends and then launched on the school’s lawn to raise money for project graduation while commemorating the 17-year-old who died […]
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I-295 construction done for now
The orange construction barrels that became a permanent part of the Interstate 295 landscape were removed last week, signaling the end to a $22.4 million highway improvement project that began six months ago.
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Comicon a success
PORTLAND — In real life, Eamon Lovejoy of South Portland is a little boy.
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Robbery suspect sought
AUGUSTA — The Augusta Police Department is looking for a white male who stands 6-feet tall and weighs between 165 and 190 pounds wearing jeans, navy style pea coat and a black watch cap.
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States weigh smart meters
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The cost of using an air conditioner — whether it runs during the peak time for electrical usage or during off-peak hours — is still the same for many electricity users across the country. The same goes for using a clothes dryer.
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Cold unlikely to end Occupy Augusta movement
AUGUSTA — Occupy Augusta activists are hunkering down for winter.
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Occupy Wall Street rejects partisan labels
NEW YORK — The Occupy Wall Street protest may be a movement, a momentary phenomenon or something in between, but one thing its most fervent activists insist it’s not is a team of shock troops for any political campaign.
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LePage seeks to slash oil dependence
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage wants to cut in half Maine’s reliance on oil for heating homes and businesses, but while the goal is drawing praise, many doubt it is a realistic goal.
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93-year-old author honored
HALLOWELL — Charlotte Eastman was honored Sunday at the Gaslight Theater for writing her autobiography “Remembrance, The Story of Your Life’s Journey.”
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Tribes expand from casinos
INDIAN TOWNSHIP (AP) — Long before Europeans arrived, the Passamaquoddy tribe spent summers feasting on seafood along the rocky shore of Passamaquoddy Bay, known for its dramatic tidal changes. In the winter, the tribe traveled up the St. Croix River in birch canoes to hunt deer, caribou and moose in vast tracts of woods.