Skowhegan News

A Maine beekeeper says someone stole 20 to 25 crates full of his bees valued at close to $3,000. Bob Egan said he got the crates ready on Thursday to deliver them the following day to a buyer.

So far this year, there are more new houses under construction in Winslow than during the previous three years combined, and Code Enforcement Officer Frank Stankevitz is optimistic the trend, also seen statewide, will continue.

A body found Saturday morning in a backyard on Bennett Avenue is the local man who has been missing for a week, a friend said.

This weekend I will be traveling to the Skowhegan Fairground to compete at the Arabian Horse Association of Maine's annual Spring Classic Horse Show.

Skowhegan police officers and members of the Maine Warden Service are looking for a Skowhegan man who hasn't been seen in a week.

Skowhegan police are looking for a man who hasn't been seen in nearly a week. Jeff Godine was last seen leaving the South Side Tavern in Skowhegan around 1 o'clock Saturday morning.

Four more people, three of them from New York, have been arrested on federal drug charges in connection with an alleged cocaine and oxycodone distribution ring in the Waterville area in which 16 people have been indicted.

A man accused of robbing a credit union in Skowhegan almost three years ago was in federal court in Bangor on Tuesday.

A Memorial Day gathering Monday at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., marked the beginning of a national commemoration of the anniversary of the Vietnam War.

The three "Boarding for Boobies" boys, who last summer raised $4,200 for breast cancer research by riding their longboards from Ellsworth to Old Orchard Beach, will pick up where they left off beginning June 26.

SKOWHEGAN -- The Skowhegan Police Department is participating in the 2012 Department of Highway Safety Seat Belt Enforcement and Education program.

SKOWHEGAN, Maine -- The Maine Quarter Horse Association kicked off it's first horse show of the year with it's Pine Tree Classic today.

Claims by Angelo Licata that prior physical or sexual abuse by his father led him to kill the older man last summer will be allowed as evidence at his murder trial next month, a judge said Thursday.

Skowhegan, Norridgewock, Lewiston - Authorities arrested a man from Lewiston Wednesday, accused of selling crack cocaine in the Skowhegan area.

Two more cases of whooping cough have been confirmed among children in Skowhegan area schools and a possible new case is being investigated in another part of Somerset County, the state epidemiologist said Tuesday.

Jacob Weese, Ethan Johnson, and Connor Reeves of Skowhegan will embark on June 26 on their second annual Boarding for Boobies fundraiser to benefit the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Foundation.

Ten people were arrested on drug-trafficking charges in separate arrests throughout central Maine Tuesday, according to a news release from United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II.

A state human rights panel on Monday unanimously sided with a woman who said a Hallowell-based business discriminated against her because of race, color, national origin and ancestry.

Rev. John Weeks and his wife, Linda, stand in front of Holy Spirit Missions Church and Shelter in Parkman on Thursday, May 21, 2012.

Police say a medical issue caused a Skowhegan man to crash his vehicle into a house.