Here are the actual words spoken by Governor LePage in a voicemail message to Democratic state representative Drew Gattine. A television reporter had told LePage that Gattine had called LePage a racist--which Gattine denies doing. This latest controversy follows remarks Wednesday night in North Berwick, where...
Conservationists are delighted and some opponents in northern Maine are seeing red in the aftermath of President Obama's move to designate over 87 thousand acres of forest land in Maine's North Woods as what will be known as Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument on...
Members of the state fire marshall's office are headed to Lisbon to investigate the cause of a mutual aid fire at the cape-style home occupied by Alison Ross and two young children at 2 Josephine Street. No one was home at the time, and six kittens,...
Exclusive from WCME News 9: It appears that there could be a settlement soon in a long-running lawsuit brought by a former Brunswick junior high school student, now 17 years old, who says he was physically and sexually assaulted at the school by fellow students. A settlement...
Maine Republican senator Susan Collins, in a Washington Post op-ed, says she won't be supporting Donald Trump. By Susan Collins The writer, a Republican, represents Maine in the Senate. I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president. This is not a decision I make lightly, for...
From WCME News 9: There were thankfully no serious injuries, but Lucas Shirland, one of Topsham's newest police officers, was treated and released from a hospital after his cruiser was struck by a drunk driver on Interstate 295. Shirland was responding to a report about the...
It lasted for less than an hour late but this morning but 7600 Midcoast customers of Central Maine Power lost their electricity when a dump truck made contact with a transmission line on Church Road in Brunswick. Most of the outages were in Brunswick and...
WCME is off the air at the present time due to a widespread power outage gripping 7400 customers in Brunswick and Harpswell with another 90 outages in Topsham. Central Maine Power says estimated time of restoration is 1245 this afternoon. No word on what has caused...
Some excitement today in Woolwich but in the end no cause for alarm. A suspicious package was found near the town hall adjacent to the fire station but it turned out to contain nothing more than fireworks. The Sagadahoc County Communications Center had received a...
A motorcyclist is at Maine Medical Center in Portland after having been struck by a car on State Road in Bath, but his injuries are not said to be life-threatening. Scott Bernier of Bath was hit by a vehicle driven by Barbara Johansen, also of Bath,...