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First on the Midcoast on WCME: A notable economic boost for the Midcoast today. Senators Collins and King are jointly announcing a move by the Navy to provide 644 million dollars in funding for the design and construction of an Arleigh Burke class destroyer--known officially as...

In Brunswick, police are investigating an after-hours burglary at the Keith Field jewelry store on Maine Street, where police found a broken window on the side of the store after an alarm sounded. Police have so far released no information on what was taken. Anyone...

Breaking from WCME News 9: In Richmond, a case of arson. The state fire marshall's office is charging a homeless man, 58-year-old Gary Martin, with counts of arson, burglary and criminal trespass after he apparently set a fire in a barn at 1 Furlong Road, where...

A man employed by Bath YMCA as a lifeguard at its pool at Brunswick Landing is charged with possessing child pornography. State police have seized computers from the home of 29-year-old Ethan Francine, who lives on Whippoorwill Road in Litchfield, and a search finds that they...

26-year-old Bath resident John Dunne Jr. has been taken to the regional jail in Wiscasset after being charged with a total of three counts--one a felony--after a month-long investigation of two incidents in which Dunne is suspected of posting nude photos of other people onto...

State police are investigating the death of 33-year-old Kimberly Hill, a Wiscasset resident, along Route 201 in The Forks, a plantation in Somerset County. Police say the woman's boyfriend, 29-year-old Tyler Poland of Greene, called 911 and reported that she had jumped out of the cab....

It's now looking like only 2-4 inches of snow on the Midcoast--starting late tonight and coming very gradually--not ending until noon tomorrow. Updates all day long on the hour and half hour today and throughout the Monday Midcoast Morning Buzz on Radio 9 WCME. 900AM. Radio9WCME.com...