Fire blamed on lightning ignited a home at 330 Wings Mills Road this morning, leveling it. No one was injured.

MANCHESTER — Police are investigating a report of a robbery at a U.S. Route 202 store this morning. A young man robbed the Rite Aid Pharmacy in Manchester around 11 a.m., and fled on foot after he demanded oxycodone, Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland said. The suspect was given an unspecified quantity of prescription […]

AUGUSTA — A Kennebec County grand jury on Thursday indicted former Chelsea Board of Selectmen Chairman Carole Swan on four criminal charges alleging she solicited kickbacks from a snowplow contractor. A prosecutor says her actions remain under scrutiny. The indictment is the formal start of a criminal case against Swan, 53, and she will be […]

CHELSEA — Residents at a special town meeting Thursday said no to a $25,000 settlement for a former town clerk.

AUGUSTA — A former captain with the Augusta Fire Department was ordered to serve a year and a half in prison as part of his sentence for having sex with a 15-year-old girl at his home in Manchester between April 2007 and April 2008. Robert G. MacMaster, 40, now of Lincoln, was convicted by a […]

A Downeaster train with 109 passengers aboard slammed into a trash-hauling tractor trailer at 11:05 a.m. today, killing at least one person.

The driver of the truck died in the collision, said Cliff Cole, a spokesman based in Amtrak’s New York office. Some of the train’s 109 passengers were injured, but it’s not clear how many or how seriously they were hurt, said Steve McCausland from the Maine Department of Public Safety.