Breaking news from WCME: In Bath, a Sagadahoc County grand jury has indicted Payson Martin, a 20-year-old Bath resident on twelve counts related to alleged child abuse, including counts of aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The victim is said to have been...
Update from WCME: Brunswick police have now identified the man charged with severely assaulting his 91-year-old father James Porter in the head with a bat at the father's home at 550 Mere Point Road. Bail has been set at 25 thousand dollars for 49-year-old Christopher...
In Brunswick, a familiar scenario for the school board. Another long meeting featuring a long and winding discussion of what to do and what not to do about declining structural building conditions at the Coffin elementary and junior high schools. No decisions have been reached,...
It's Citizen Involvement Day--an annual event in Bath, where a prominent community face has been named Citizen of the Year. Brian Hatch--pictured here with Bath city council chair Mari Eosco--serves as president of the downtown promotional organization Main Street Bath. In the past Brian was...
A POST-TRAGEDY SEARCH The Navy is preparing to search the area where the El Faro sank off the coast of the Bahamas to look for the ship's data recorder, but it won't have much time, because in only about two weeks the recorder's battery will run...
In Brunswick, town councilors don't seem to like a recommendation from the town's rivers and coastal waters commission to set the town's first-ever mooring fees for boat owners at just twenty-five dollars for town residents and fifty dollars for non-residents. Some councilors whether the fees...
A search for a large cargo ship that began four days ago during a hurricane in the Bahamas is intensifying. Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force crews are looking for 33 crew members, including four merchant mariners from Maine. Two of those mariners are Rockland...
The rain has moved east of the Midcoast...
In Freeport, Police Chief Gerald Schofield reports the closure of a part of Hunter Road near the power lines due to flooding. Avoid the area if at all possible....
The National Weather service has issued a FLOOD WARNING until 3:30 this afternoon for northwest Sagadahoc County, including the Topsham and Bowdoin areas, for northeast Lincoln County, for all of Androscoggin County, and for northwest Cumberland County--not including Brunswick and Freeport. In addition, a less intensive...