Author: Jim Bleikamp

Update from WCME News 9 State police are investigating the discovery of a fatal accident along I-295 in Gardiner--an accident that may have happened a week ago. 27-year-old Ian Carter of Lincoln Avenue in Gardiner was found dead inside a vehicle that went off the road...

In Brunswick, no one injured in an early morning house fire at the home of the Boid Allen family on Merryman Lane. Allen says he was watching television when he smelled smoke and found his two-year-old son's room full of smoke as the boy was...

The founding director of a highly regarded associate degree program in composite science and manufacturing at the Southern Maine Community College campus in Brunswick has resigned. Andrew Schoenberg says he's leaving out of concern about student safety after the college's president refused to reconsider the...

In Freeport, the arrest of a man at his home at 252 Lower Flying Point Road, on a charge of possessing child pornography. 44-year-old Gerald White, an art teacher at Portland High School, has been taken to the Cumberland County Jail. His computer was seized by...

With about 3500 votes cast, members of S6, the machinists union at Bath Iron Works have agreed to a new four-year-contract proposal from the company by a margin of 1343-1045. Much grumbling was heard by members both entering and leaving Augusta Civic Center, where the vote...

After the temporary reinstatement of the food donation program by the Shaw's supermarket chain to Midcoast Hunger Prevention in Brunswick, there's a new indication from congresswoman Chellie Pingree that the chain will allow the program to continue on an ongoing basis. After talking with Shaw's...

In Bath, the 15 thousand-ton DDG Zumwalt 1000, the first of three Zumwalt class ships to be built at Bath Iron Works, is getting a sea trial today. Thanks for the stunning pictures to Robert Simpson and to Tim Trafton....