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The rain just wouldn't go away. Wet weather once again canceled racing at Speedway 95 Saturday night.

I am a 76-year-old veteran of the Korean War era who never has used veteransa medical benefits.

Retirement from a life in banking prompts sculptor Claude O'Donnell of Holden to unleash the creative hippie hidden in the gray flannel suit A piece called "Fed Ex" by former drummer and banker Claude O'Donnell adorns a shelf at the Blue Hill Library as part of an exhibit this month.

A century ago criminals were starting to make their getaways in automobiles, while law officers were still depending on horses and shoe leather for transportation.

There were clowns, bands, and the Keystone Kops, but what really got Lexi Leeman of Bucksport excited was the cars.

A fire in Veazie ripped through a May Street home this evening. Crews got the call around 6 P.M. When they arrived they say there was heavy smoke showing on the first and second floors of the home.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARRIOR, KIRKUK, Iraq a ' Iraqi police and coalition forces brought a little relief to the Iraqi village of Qutan in Kirkuk province, June 6. IP from the Mari police sub-station in the Dibbis District, assisted by Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, delivered 150 ...

Kindergarten teacher Trudy Walo got a few hundred hugs on Thursday. She also got pink flowers, blooming plants, books, handmade cards and a scrapbook of pictures collected over the last two decades when she taught 5- and 6-year-olds their ABCs and 1-2-3's. "I can't say enough about her," Holden School Principal Dave Anderson said just before a ...

Gov. John Baldacci on Monday ceremonially signed into law a statewide mutual aid agreement for first responder agencies, but it means little for the communities of Bangor and Brewer, which have had agreements in place for a century, a local official said.

HERMON, Maine a ' The local racing community lost a driver at Speedway 95 Saturday night after a heart attack reportedly claimed the life of Addisona TMs Ikey Dorr.

SOUTHWEST HARBOR : Lisa Ann Sullivan, of Southwest Harbor, whose life was violently thrown off course five years ago by a drug intoxicated driver, died unexpectedly at age 46 on May 26, 2009, at her home in Southwest Harbor, just a few days after having taken her first step since the accident.

Maine public health officials are on alert for new cases of whooping cough and E. coli food poisoning.

The Eddington man who donned a Halloween mask and threaten a Brewer store clerk with a knife on Oct.

Keith O'Dell Jr. probably could make a fortune as a pool hustler. After all, who would believe that a two-year-old, who's still in diapers, is a pool shark? He even has to stand on a chair to reach the pool table.

Wolf project seeks volunteers to howl in Maine's North Woods HOLDEN, Maine Conservationists and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are looking for a few dozen good howlers.

Amaris Temoso Buchanan was awarded a college degree before earning her high school diploma.

Rail workers continued to work Tuesday on a tanker car derailment that occurred Monday morning near Logistics Lane in Hermon.

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine a ' Northern Maine Regional Airport in Presque Isle is getting $2.5 million in federal stimulus money to extend its parallel taxiway.

When a then-teenage Alexandra Misan found out she would be living in Maine as part of an exchange program, the Russian native was excited.

"In my opinion, even if you take away their drivers license, they will still drive.