Auburn News

City Councilors and members of the Lewiston Planning Board are scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in a joint meeting.

The Twin Cities will take their arguments to have regional emergency communications centered around their L-A 911 Dispatch Center to the Androscoggin County Budget Committee.

You can excuse the Nason brothers if they don't spend a lot of time recounting old war stories about their years in the military.

A plan for renovations to the city's old police station at 1 Minot Ave. should consider the future of the entire Minot Avenue-Court Street corridor, according to developer Joe Casalinova.

Ben Bellevue of Auburn flips a tractor tire up a grassy slope while working out at Edward Little High School on Friday.

Sen. Nancy Sullivan, D-Biddeford, gestures while debating aspects of the budget in the Senate at the State House in Augusta, Maine, on Thursday, June 16, 2011 PORTLAND, Maine - Two state lawmakers are taking the Maine Department of Education to task for rescinding nearly $1 million in grant money that had been awarded to four districts, a decision ... (more)

Brian Nichols, 46, is led from the courtroom after being sentenced Thursday at Androscoggin County Superior Court to serve 40 years in jail for the murder of his wife, Jane Tetreault.

A shot was fired on Granite Street Wednesday afternoon, and when rescue crews arrived they found a 63-year-old man bleeding badly from a gunshot wound.

Auburn Public Works employee Brian Lothrop of Mechanic Falls, who has spent three years in the Maine National Guard's 1136 Transportation Company, uses a pick and cleaning agent to remove buildup on the plaque at the entrance to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge in Auburn on Tuesday.

State Rep. Richard Wagner, D-Lewiston, left, Rep. Michel Lajoie, D-Lewiston, and Sen.

"Yoko" sticks her head out of Nicole Ducharme's purse as she and Logan Martyn-Fisher of Raymond stop to look at Dan Marquis' photographs during the first Lewiston Art Walk on Lisbon Street on May 27, 2011.

A $300,000 grant the state Department of Education awarded to local schools on April 21 has been rescinded because another school district appealed the process, DOE spokesman David Connerty-Marin said Monday.

Beverly Girouard, 74, was taken by ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston with what were believed to be non life-threatening injuries, said Monmouth Police Chief Kevin Mulherin.

Devin Charest, 21, of 25 Pine St., Lewiston, was charged with robbery, assault, burglary and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs.

Sisters Andrea Gauthier, left, of Minot and Nancy Norcross of Oxford finish the Hospice House 5K & Remembrance Walk Sunday morning at Central Maine Community College in Auburn.

Sandi Croft of College for ME - Androscoggin speaks to Heather Turcotte as she registers her daughter, Hailey, for kindergarten at Sherwood Heights Elementary in Auburn Friday.

Nine groups have submitted notices of intent to apply for charters by the mid-week deadline, but one -- a high school in the Waldo County town of Monroe -- would not start classes until September 2013.

Cancer survivor Cathy Veilleux, left, of Auburn and Sue LaJoie of Poland Spring pose with a life-size cutout of Patrick Dempsey during the 2012 Dempsey Challenge spring kickoff at the Hilton Garden Inn in Auburn on Thursday.

The kid is just 12 years old, but you'd have a difficult time convincing his family otherwise.

Rome was not built in a day, yet many living in Lewiston and Auburn expect that we should be flourishing on par with Boston or, at least, Portland.