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KENNEBUNKPORT — Federal workplace safety officials are proposing nearly $17,000 in penalties against a Monmouth company following the death of two men working in a sewage tank in Kennebunkport. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the employer for four safety violations, including failure to ventilate the area where the men were working and failing […]

The suspect says he was joking.

Joseph Silva met the Portsmouth, N.H. woman on a social networking website and sexually assaulted her in 2009.

OXFORD — The development group behind an under-construction casino in Oxford says it won’t try and stop full disclosure of its ownership. The state Gambling Control Board ruled earlier this week that Black Bear Development LLC could no longer keep the names of its owners, and the percentage of ownership, a secret. A lawyer for […]

DEBLOIS  — One of the world’s largest blueberry growers has been accused of discharging so much blueberry waste into a Maine river that the water turned blue. Matt Young of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection alleges Wyman and Son of Milbridge allowed unprocessed waste berries, leaves, twigs and other waste to leach into the […]

BANGOR — Police say a Bangor man was arrested this week for repeatedly calling 911 to ask for a ride. Officers found 34-year-old James Finlayson just after 1 a.m. Tuesday near his home. Police checked his cellphone and determined he had been making the calls, in which he used profanities. Sgt. Paul Edwards tells the […]

Among the more popular ideas is requiring drug tests for all welfare recipients.

AUGUSTA — A regional agency that watches trends in colleges says that during the past five years, Maine community colleges had the lowest increases in in-state and out-of-state tuitions and fees in all of New England. The New England Board of Higher Education’s report is based on figures from schools in the six states collected […]