Lots of smoke and extensive damage but fortunately no injuries in a fire at the Freedom Center--a drug and mental health recovery center at 633 Gardiner Road in Dresden. The fire apparently broke out in the back of the building and there is no word...
In Bath, police report the seizure of 17 and a half pounds of processed marijuana from the residence of Joseph Plummer and Alison Hartill at 5 Bumpy Hill Road, where they went initially on a child custody complaint. The two are said to have ultimately...
In Lisbon an investigation is underway into the stabbing of a 32-year-old female resident of the town, whose name has not been released and who is declining medical attention after suffering wounds to the arm and neck before fleeing the scene of the incident in...
Bath Iron Works is laying off 30 workers and will eventually eliminate a total of 160 positions in its engineering and support organizations in a move to become more "affordable" as the company puts it, with further reductions to come through retirements, transfers, resignations and...
State police now say a pick-up truck exited Rabbit Road onto Route 9 this morning into the path of a dump truck and struck the dump truck on the side before the pick-up caught fire. Two occupants of the pick-up lost their lives, after being...
Two people have died after a crash involving a pick-up truck and a dump truck at the junction of Route 9 and Runaround Pond Road in Durham, and one of the vehicles apparently caught fire as a result of the crash. Both of the dead...
Professional discipline for an orthopedic surgeon who practiced in Brunswick. The Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine and the state attorney general's office have entered into a consent agreement with Dr. Peter Ameglio, who has apparently been on staff at both Midcoast Hospital and at...
A former Brunswick police officer faces up to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to send obscene material to a minor. 25-year-old Garrett Brosnan was arrested in June after an investigation that began last October when the parents of a 13-year-old girl in...
At Midcoast Hospital in Brunswick, it's one year later--one year after its landscape-changing takeover of Parkview Hospital, and Midcoast is now unveiling plans for the redevelopment of the Parkview campus. Midcoast says primary care will be expanded as will cancer care, and after already renovating...
In Topsham, a three-vehicle accident on Route 196 near the Lisbon line, and involving a tractor-trailer truck, a car and a minivan has claimed the life of 90-year-old Jean Brusila, a passenger in the car. Police say 32-year-old Justin Cyr of Lewiston was the westbound...