Aroostook County News

Gov. John Baldacci ordered more than $63 million in midyear budget cuts Friday in a curtailment order that heavily targets state funding for education and social services programs.

Well, maybe not entirely doomed, but kinda doomed. She might survive her 2012 campaign for re-election to a fourth term in the U.S. Senate, but not without serious damage.

Although opponents of Maine's school consolidation law failed to make their case to the voters earlier this month, members of the Legislature's Education Committee hope they can make some changes in the law to accommodate the critics.

Investigators from the Maine State Fire Marshal's Office have determined the large fire at the Northeast Packaging Company storage facility on Rice Street, in Presque Isle to be arson.

Vernon Baker, 32, of Woodland , arrested in connection with Caribou stabbing on Friday, Nov.

Robert Sterling, M.D. agreed to the immediate, permanent surrender of his medical license in a Consent Agreement signed Nov.

The U.S. Department of Labor has charged two northern Maine logging contractors with violating federal labor laws that require firms to recruit American loggers before hiring often lower-paid foreign workers.

At the Blue Hill Public Library on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7 p.m, a stellar cast of local legends will read their own poetry.

CARIBOU, Maine a ' The former deputy chief of the Island Falls Fire Department was indicted Friday by the Aroostook County grand jury on a theft charge in connection with the alleged misappropriation of about $10,000 in town funds.

Freddy Silva has a theory about crop circles. No, not little green men, he says, chuckling.

One day after failing at the polls as the nation watched, supporters of same-sex marriage in Maine said Wednesday they were dispirited but not defeated as they vowed to continue what they regard as a civil rights fight.

HOULTON, Maine a ' A 23-year-old Houlton man was arrested early Sunday and charged with aggravated assault after an incident involving a teenager he allegedly was engaged in a relationship with.

Wind damaged and helped ignite a power pole in Ellsworth, ME Saturday 10 / 31. Damaging wind gusts - some associated with thunderstorms and some not - swept across northern and eastern New England Saturday 10 / 31.

Two Aroostook County businessmen have landed on Maine Biz magazine's "Next" list.

Brenneman moved from Ontario in September 2008 to teach in the Amish school and now works for the Stoll family, who are going to be manufacturing metal roofing.

Everyone, Northern Maine Community College English Instructor Jennifer Graham said Tuesday, loves a ghost story.

Several local and state law enforcement agencies were at Hermon High School Monday morning with drug sniffing dogs for a scheduled drug sweep.

A 31-year-old California man was arrested in the parking lot of a Presque Isle bar on Thursday and hit with a felony charge of selling methamphetamine.

Maine State Police believe the two Millinocket men they arrested Monday night for burglary of a camp on Mattaseunk Lake in Molunkus Township in Aroostook County committed more than 30 other camp break-ins in a four-county area.

MAPLETON, Maine a ' A local woman played a key role in apprehending an intruder who broke into her home Monday evening.