Police use Yellow Flag Law to seize “numerous firearms” from Maine island

Police made use of Maine’s Yellow Flag Law when seizing firearms on an island near Rockland.

New project aims to breathe life into shuttered Jay paper mill

A new company is leasing land at the site of the former Androscoggin Paper Mill in Jay.

Phone scammers claiming to be from Police Dept. target Portland residents

PORTLAND, Maine (WGAN) The Portland Police Dept. is warning residents about a phone scam in which the caller solicits donations and asks for credit card information to process the payment.

Threat that shut down Maine State Capitol building determined to be hoax

The State Capitol Building was evacuated Friday morning after a threat was emailed to a legislative member.

Katie Britt calls Biden a ‘diminished leader’ in GOP response to the State of the Union

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sitting at her kitchen table in Alabama, Sen. Katie Britt called President Joe Biden a “dithering and diminished leader”…

Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump, sell voters on a second term

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union…

Missing Readfield woman found safe

Police say Folsom has been found safe. 

Police investigate attempted theft of ATM in Farmington

An ATM was destroyed in Farmington in what police believe was an attempted theft.

Police investigate double fatal crash in Western Maine

A crash Wednesday night in Oxford County claimed the lives of two men.

Evidence of traumatic brain injury in shooter who killed 18 in deadliest shooting in Maine’s history

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) An Army reservist who served with a man who fatally shot 18 people in Maine last year and participated in the search for him after the killings on Thursday described the response to the tragedy as chaotic.