Author: Jim Bleikamp

Another step toward yet another windfall for Bath Iron Works. In Washington, the Senate appropriations committee approves the balance of the funding needed for the construction of an additional Arleigh Burke class destroyer that would be built at the local shipyard. This ship is in addition...

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the murder conviction of 73-year-old Merrill Kimball, convicted last year in the 2013 shooting of Leon Kelley (pictured), who lived in Georgetown. The shooting happened at a bee farm in North Yarmouth. The high court rejected Kimball's major argument...

Brunswick police have updated their investigation of the Sunday stabbing of an Ohio man at 19 Market Lane in the near-downtown area where police say they have served a search warrant and recovered certain evidence. Police also say the weapon used in the assault has...

In Brunswick, police continue to look for clues in the Sunday stabbing of a 39-year-old man in the near-downtown area. The victim--a resident of Cleveland, Ohio--is now at Maine Medical Center in Portland with knife wounds to his chest and arm. Police were initially called...

A Bowdoin College security officer says he spotted a man allegedly engaged in lewd public behavior near the college's Mayflower Apartments housing complex on Belmont Street. This is said to have happened early this morning and the man is said to have been standing with his...

Two-term Freeport town councilor Kristina Egan says she's leaving the council in June to accept a new position as executive director of the Greater Portland Council of Governments, an organization made up of 26 member communities, including Freeport, which disburses funds to those member communities....

Breaking from WCME News 9: Brunswick police now say 78-year-old Fred Vose who had been missing from his home in Brunswick since Saturday morning and who suffers from dementia, has now been located nearly three hours away in Stonington, Maine, and is safe. Vose is believed to...

Following a two-month investigation, a man from Bath and a woman from Brunswick have been taken to the Cumberland County jail after their arrests on felony drug charges Brunswick police stopped their car near the Irving gas station on Pleasant Street and arrested 39-year-old Scott Coombs...