Winthrop News

Ambulances took eight people to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston after a three-vehicle crash on Route 202 on Thursday night.

The two Democratic candidates who are squaring off in the June primary vote for House District 82 differ in what they would like to accomplish if elected to represent the communities of Winthrop and Readfield.

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories that will preview local contested races for the state House and Senate in the primary election.

The most recent outburst was Tuesday afternoon as eight grass fires broke out over a several-hundred-yard stretch along U.S. Route 202 in Winthrop.

Ricky Allen Lane said Wednesday that an opiate drug addiction led him to take part in a dozen crimes in nine days, including an armed home invasion in Manchester.

When Tim Simons was a teenager working at a video store in Winthrop, he sometimes would get starstruck when actors from the nearby Theater at Monmouth would come into the store.

Tricia Clark will keep her fingers crossed when the Legislature reconvenes this week and takes up a budget plan that calls for sharp cuts in Medicaid and health care spending.

As parents and students plan celebrations to mark proms and graduations over the next several weeks, area police are stepping up efforts to make sure underage drinking isn't involved.

An Augusta man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after he forced his car into a ditch off Eastern Avenue with two toddlers in the back seat, according to police.

Bellavance, 51, of Winthrop, was convicted Dec. 30, 2011, of two counts of arson in the torching of the coffee shop on June 3, 2009.

A group of Maine high school students have been working together with college students from all over Maine on a first-of-its-kind science experiment.

Erik Groenhout insects a woodworking tool he sharpened Monday in the interior of the former Odd Fellows Lodge he is restoring in Mount Vernon.

Two years after a tea party power play at the Maine Republican Convention, Ron Paul supporters hope to stage a takeover as state GOP delegates gather this weekend for this election-year's party gathering.