Oxford News

Oxford firefighters extinguished the remains of a chicken coop fire just after 6 a.m. Thursday at 54 Mechanic Falls Road in Oxford.

More than 100 customers who qualify for LIHEAP, a federal program designed to help struggling families to heat their homes, did not receive more than $21,000 in heating oil that had been paid for by the federal government, according to a statement from Maine State Housing Authority .

A man charged with breaking into an Oxford home Monday will be held without bail until an agent can take him back to New York to answer charges there.

A silver 2005 Toyota sedan, operated by Eve Rottersman, 18, Bridgton, drifted off of Sodom Road in Norway and into some trees Saturday.

A 17-year-old girl who locked herself in a bathroom and called the police when a man broke into her house did everything right, according to the Oxford police officer who arrested the man Monday.

Workers from Natgun Corp. build a 500,000-gallon water tank near the Oxford casino site last October.

Despite the relatively mild winter, cuts in LIHEAP funding have left more people than ever before facing tough decisions about how to heat their homes.

Pictures of Mellie Dunham and antique snowshoes are some of the exhibits being displayed for the next two weeks in Main Street business fronts, including this one next to Duncan Slade's art studio near Cafe Nomad.

A spike in General Assistance demand, and the threat of state social program cuts have led the town managers of Paris and Norway to suggest combining certain aspects of the General Assistance program.

Fans of agricultural fairs shouldn't be too concerned if they hear that "The Big O" won't happen in Oxford this year.

Catherine Richards stands in front of the Route 26 building from which she hopes to open her business, "Havoc Fireworks," this summer.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is greeted by Paul Madore of Lewiston, state chairman of Paul's campaign, as the candidate takes the stage at the Ramada Inn in Lewiston on Friday night.

Building a racecar may be the biggest project that the kids of the experiential learning program have tackled, but it's not the only such project.

Members of Oxford Fire Police take their jobs very seriously, said current Oxford Fire Chief Scott Hunter, and they have done so for the past 12 years.

Quick action by a neighbor may have saved a home from fire after a window-mounted pellet stove caught fire Wednesday.