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A federal lawsuit says Central Vermont Public Service accepted an inadequate offer from one suitor, had to buy its way out of it and as a result got a second offer at a similarly inadequate price.

The new ban expands restrictions to prohibit out-of-state firewood from all New Hampshire lands.

The York County sheriff says the incident happened while an inmate was being removed from a maximum security cell and placed in a restraining chair.

Augusta Wednesday At 5:50 p.m., there was a hit-and-run accident on Pleasant Street. 5:54 p.m., there was a report of a disorderly conduct at a Western Avenue store. 7:18 p.m., Daniel Peter James, 47, of Pittsfield, was arrested after a report of disorderly conduct at a Western Avenue store and charged with disorderly conduct, criminal […]

Vehicle accident, thefts, criminal trespass

AUGUSTA — A judge is reducing the restrictions on a Bangor woman who starved her 5-year-old daughter to death and claimed she turned up her radio to mask the screams. In 1995 Tonia Kigas Porter, now 46, was committed indefinitely to the then-Augusta Mental Health Institute after being found not guilty of murder by reason […]

The victim, who was confined to a wheelchair, died of blunt force injuries.

ROCKLAND — More than a dozen two- and three-masted windjammers will be on display in Rockland to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Maine’s windjamming cruise industry. The Maine Windjammer Association says the ships will take part in the Parade of Sail past the mile-long Rockland breakwater between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Friday. The windjammers […]