Hampden News

John Mihalopoulos of Lamoine, a member of the choir at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Bangor, grills gyro meat at the church's fundraising concession at The American Folk Festival on the Bangor waterfront.

Starting this week, the U.S. Postal Service has shifted some of its mail processing from a local plant to one in southern Maine in an effort to improve efficiency and reduce costs in a sagging economy.

Hundreds of lighthouse aficionados from around the United States and Canada converged on the communities of Cutler, Lubec and Campobello Island this past weekend for the first ever International "Lights Across ...

A teenager was charged with aggravated assault Monday after an argument led to a stabbing at an old farmhouse on Simpson Corners Road in Dixmont.

A duck was killed at Ponds End after it was struck by a rock thrown by a group of teenagers on Monday.

BELFAST : The following cases were closed from July 28 through Aug. 1, 2008, at Belfast District Court: Joshua J. Breault, 28, of Searsport, operate while license suspended or revoked, prior, dismissed.

BELFAST : Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, arrested Saturday, Aug. 2, in Florida on charges that he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, is a former resident of Frankfort.

Two people closest to a man charged with threatening to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he has no violent tendencies and would never have seriously threatened violence ...

A former Hampden man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential ...

Fire crews spent part of Wednesday night battling a blaze in downtown Bangor... It broke out on West Street, near Fairmount Market.

A convicted felon wanted in Maryland on theft charges was arrested late Monday night after running from a residence on Manning Mill Road, according to Hampden Police Chief Joe Rogers.

CAMDEN : Pam St. Clair has joined the staff of the Allen Agency in Camden as a commercial lines producer.

A single vehicle rollover that took the life of a 22-year-old Pittsfield woman early Friday morning on Interstate 95 in Hampden was the latest in a string of fatalities on Maine roads that have July on pace to ...

An early morning accident in Hampden has killed one young woman and seriously injured another.

I have to stay away from the Hampden Transfer Station. Too often I come home with more stuff than I hurl into the trash.

On most June and July days over the past several years, it hasn't been difficult to figure out if there was a sizeable run of striped bass in the Penobscot River.

Cruising aboard the "Patience" on the Penobscot River, WomenHeart members and friends of members including , Louise Park of Brewer, Sue Jacobs of Orrington, Lorraine Stormann of Bangor, and Helen Smith of ...

Area residents flocked to the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge and surrounding Bangor and Brewer waterfronts to enjoy Friday night's Fourth of July fireworks display.

Bangoreans already knew a century ago that their export ice industry was dying, a victim of financial manipulation and technology.

WALDOBORO : A study of the Waldoboro Police Department revealed a credibility gap between the department and the public and showed that its facility space is "bordering on dangerous as it is presently used." ...