Mars Hill News

A 23-year-old man was flown to a Bangor hospital on Tuesday after he was injured in an ATV accident.

State police say they're investigating the theft of copper grounding wire from utility poles along a 14-mile stretch in northern Maine.

Presque Isle, Maine - The Maine Potato Board recently announced the recipient of this year's Farm Family of the Year 2009, bestowing the honor to the families of Ward McLaughlin and Trent Lundeen of West Ridge Farms in Mars Hill, Maine.

CHICAGO a ' A suburban Chicago woman has apologized for an Internet hoax in which she claimed to be pregnant with a terminally ill child, saying the story that attracted nearly a million hits on her Web site stemmed from "unresolved pain" she couldn't handle alone.

An 18-year-old man appeared in court today following a police investigation into child sex abuse which led to the arrest of a mother-of-four in America.

Allegations that a mother of four young kids in Maine Webcast the sexual assault of one of her children have rocked the small town in which she lives.

A woman from Aroostook county is in jail, charged with sexually assaulting a young child.

An American woman has appeared in court via video link on child sex charges after an investigation in the UK led to her arrest.

Julie Carr of Mars Hill was charged Monday with gross sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a minor.

British detectives have uncovered the live online broadcast of a mother sexually assaulting her own child.

MARS HILL, Maine a ' A 30-year-old local woman was arrested and charged with gross sexual assault Friday after Maine State Police alleged that she is linked to a child pornography investigation with international ties.

MARS HILL, Maine a ' A Maine woman has been charged with sexually assaulting a young child after being traced by a child porn Internet video uncovered by police in England.

Julie Carr was arrested Friday night on charges of Gross Sexual Assault in a case with international ties.

Families who live on a portion of East Ridge Road and Mountain Road on the backside of Mars Hill say, at times over the past two and a half years, they've lived with unbearable noise.

An Aroostook County potato farmer is part of a national television commercial campaign created by Lay's Potato Chips.

James W. Sewall Company and Reed & Reed are helping develop wind energy projects on some of the toughest terrain in the eastern US - the mountains of Maine.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has approved a 60-megawatt wind turbine project for Penobscot County.

The Canadian Wind Energy Association says there is no peer-reviewed scientific evidence that wind turbine noise causes adverse health effects.

Last September, NMCC launched a first-of-its-kind program in New England geared toward training wind power technicians.

Independent wind power developer First Wind Inc. plans to build a 51 megawatt wind project -- enough to power more than 20,000 homes -- in Oakfield, Maine, the Newton-based company announced, following a permit application filing with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.