The proposal would give the EPA 15 months to
re-examine the issue and come up with final rules.
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Augusta water OK’d for drinking
AUGUSTA — Residents on a stretch of Mount Vernon Avenue where water service was temporarily shut down Tuesday no longer have to boil their water. The boil-water order for homes and businesses between the Bond Brook Bridge and 212 Mount Vernon Ave. was lifted Wednesday after samples indicated water from the area is safe to […]
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Patriots plates may soon grace Maine cars
Maine motorists may soon have another way to display their loyalty to the New England Patriots. The National Football League team unveiled a proposed specialty license plate Wednesday that features the Patriots logo. Similar plates are already offered in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. A total of 2,000 preorders are needed to bring it to the […]
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Gov. LePage Cabinet member resigns
Norm Olsen, commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, offered his resignation today and the governor accepted it, according to a top LePage official.
Olsen said he was “put on warning” two weeks ago and decided to resign today after meeting with LePage.
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Myra Kraft, wife of Patriots owner, dies
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Myra Kraft, the wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and a long-time philanthropist, has died. She was 68. The NFL team said in a statement on its website that Myra Hiatt Kraft died Wednesday morning after a battle with cancer. The statement said “we are all heartbroken” and added that […]
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No new trial for man who killed fiancee
ALFRED — A judge has rejected a New Hampshire man’s request for a new trial on charges he killed his former fiancée. Jason Twardus, of Rochester, N.H., was convicted of strangling 30-year-old nursing student Kelly Gorham in 2007 and burying her body on his father’s land in Stewartstown, N.H. Twardus’ lawyer told a judge last […]
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Police Log: Augusta man asks to be arrested
Can I get a ride? An Augusta man was taken to jail Monday after cursing at public safety dispatchers and telling them he wanted to be arrested. Mark B. Melanson, 41, was arrested on warrants charging him with nearly $2,000 in unpaid fines and fees. Melanson was being held at the Kennebec County jail Tuesday in […]
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Trial starts in fatal 2010 hit-and-run
BANGOR — The trial of a man charged in the hit-and-run death of a University of Maine student last year is under way. Twenty-three-year-old Garrett Cheney is charged with manslaughter, aggravated criminal operating under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident in the Jan. 30, 2010 death of Jordyn Bakley. Her body was […]
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Olsen releases statement on resignation
Norman Olsen, former commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, released the following statement today regarding his resignation from the cabinet of Gov. Paul LePage.