Waterville News

Jessica Norton, right, watches as her son, Noah Cole, 18 months, enjoys a fresh doughnut Friday in the front seat of a 1921 Dodge ambulance in the parking lot outside the community pool next to the Alfond Youth Center in Waterville.

There was no fraud at the Maine State Housing Authority, but it was too late for the former director.

Maine State Police Spokesman, Stephen McCausland, right, introduces Attorney John Nale, left, during a press conference about the Ayla Reynolds investigation in Waterville, Maine Thursday, May 31, 2012.

James Paine, left, as Andrew Rally, and Bart Shattuck, right, playing John Barrymore, rehearse a scene from "I Hate Hamlet" at the Aqua City Actors Theatre in downtown Waterville on Thursday night.

Jay Brainard's wife, Emily, said Thursday her husband was a professional soldier who prided himself on his leadership role in the military.

WATERVILLE, Maine - A Fairfield man led police on a brief foot pursuit and struggled with officers when they tried to arrest him on domestic violence warrants, according to police.

H. Bruce Franklin remembers Romney from his Stanford days and lays out exactly how he and his father ensured he would evade service in the war which, at Stanford, he was demonstrating for.

A porn actor is wanted in a gruesome case of dismembered body parts that were mailed to different places including the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada, police said.

Owner occupied or investor affording a rare opportunity to own a commercial building and apartments.

A Warm and Welcoming Classic New England Farmhouse is located within an easy commute to Augusta, Oakland & Waterville.

Maine State Police have called a news conference to provide an update on the five-month investigation into the disappearance of a toddler from her father's home in Waterville.

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.

Some parents do let their girls wear makeup to school, so it's important to remind your daughter that families have different rules.

A federal lawsuit in which a 20-year employee of MaineGeneral Medical Center claims he was the victim of age and disability discrimination has survived an initial hurdle and is set for trial in August.

SUMMER SLIDE: Chris Lill of the Waterville Parks and Recreation department pumps water and debris from the pool below the water slides at the Alfond Municipal Pool in Waterville on a rainy Tuesday.

Augusta, Mainea May 21, 2012: Cheers and sustained applause echoed through Nordica Auditorium in the c.1865 Merrill Hall on the University of Maine Farmington campus last Friday as over 300 downtown revitalization leaders honored the Heart of Biddeford, recipient of the 2012 Main Street Maine Community of the Year award.

Cole/ Democrat Photo Locals wait in line to visit the Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse in Newcastle on Sunday during an open house.

Al Hodsdon, of A.E. Hodsdon Consulting Engineers in Waterville, shows the initial concept of Gerry Marshall's vision for the former high school property near Lake Wassokeag during a Dexter Planning Board meeting on Thursday, May 24, 2012.

Waterville - There was a new addition to this year's Memorial Day parade in Waterville- the American Legion Riders of Maine.

We decided to return the pig's electric fence. A We went to the Tractor Supply Company in Waterville and bought livestock panels: rigid, 4 gauge welded fencing held with t-posts. A We got the pig pen up and Oinkers and Penelope are happy little [contained] piggies.