In Augusta, a renewed debate about whether some doctors practice medicine defensively and about whether injured patients can successfully sue for damages. Republican state representative Deborah Sanderson of Chelsea is pushing a plan that she says could lower health care costs, improve outcomes and make...
In Brunswick, the arrest of a suspected peeping tom. 55-year-old Steven McIntire of Bath, a convicted sex offender, is charged in six such incidents last fall in the Bowdoin College neighborhood. Police say the charges are based on "non-consensual videos of adults inside their residences...
In Durham, state police are investigating the discovery of a body--the body of a middle-aged man in the parking lot at Runaround Pond on a road of the same name. No vehicle has been found nearby and the body was found by a man using...
Here are cancellations impacting life on the Midcoast on Saturday evening after a new snow accumulation of 3-5 inches. If you have a cancellation or closing announcement, send us an e-mail. You'll find a link here at radio9wcme.com. -Parking ban in Topsham until 12:01 Sunday morning -Parking ban...
State and Brunswick Police say a young Chelsea man suspecting of bilking dozens of thousands of dollars for items and services never delivered has now been picked up in Lisbon. 23-year-old Ervin Morrison III was tracked down at a home on Memorial Street and taken...
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...
For the first time, video footage of the wreckage of the El Faro, the cargo ship carrying four crewmen from Maine--two of whom were from Rockland--when it went down during Hurricane Joaquin in the Bahamas last October. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3h8HbloK0o...
A woman attending a demonstration in support of the Freeport flag ladies is in serious condition at Maine Medical Center in Portland after having been struck by a sport utility vehicle at the corner of School and Main Street in Freeport as she was crossing...
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...