Hampden News

A Hampden man was charged with driving to endanger Tuesday night after a high-speed sprint through Main Street that ended in a rollover.

The Cub Scouts of Pack 41 as well as their friends and family gathered at Reeds Brook Middle School early this afternoon for the group's annual Pinewood Derby.

The sixth meet of the indoor track season taking place today at the Maine Fieldhouse.

Fifteen schools around the state have signed up to partner with the Galen L. Cole Disaster Relief Program to raise funds to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

Hoteliers Danny and Carla Lafayette Receive the Norbert X. Dowd Award; Maine's Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce's Highest Award Jan.

A couple who have given generously to area medical, educational and youth causes - including a $2 million pledge to a cancer treatment center - received the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce's most prestigious award Wednesday night during the organization's annual awards dinner.

An arrest or summons does not constitute a finding of guilt. An individual charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at criminal proceedings.

The mother of a Bangor man on trial for attempted murder testified Wednesday that her son had said while he fiddled with knives at her kitchen table that if he saw his ex-girlfriend with another man he would kill them both.

Jan. 14--HAMPDEN, Maine -- A recent random sampling of 40 homes in Hampden discovered that 12 of those residences had drinking water that exceeded Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for lead.

A 24-year-old Hampden woman testified Monday that her former boyfriend David Archer stabbed her twice in the abdomen on the evening of April 26, 2008, as his jury trial on attempted murder and other charges got under way.

Officials with the U.S. Postal Service have been in the city this week, touring possible locations for a new post office, including the former 3rd District Court, the former Miller's Restaurant and empty space at the Bangor Daily News.

Folks who've invested in Maine's college savings plan received some disappointing news recently.

Should the city underwrite the American Folk Festival? The BDN recently reported that the folk festival held each August on the Bangor riverfront is in deeper debt than previously disclosed.

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The second Donald Parker saw his future wife, it was love. "I thought she was the most beautiful girl in the world," the 91-year-old said last week with his wife of 70 years sitting beside him.

MONROE, Maine a ' A Hampden man was treated for minor injuries after his pickup truck and the empty horse trailer it was hauling skidded off the road and crashed Monday night.

A local flatbed trucking company that was born 23 years ago and grew into the largest company of its kind in Maine will close its doors, leaving more than 100 employees without jobs.

Santa prays with Julie Dominguez , of Carmel, her son Austin Slover, 13, of Carmel, and volunteer Ella Weeks , of Exeter, during Manna's Christmas dinner at the Bangor Parks and Recreation Center on Friday.

A 23-year-old Winterport man remained in intensive care at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor as of Dec.

A Winterport man was seriously injured Saturday evening in a two-vehicle crash on Kennebec Road in Hampden, but his 4-year-old passenger was unhurt.