Aroostook County News

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.

A 29-year-old Caswell man has been charged in connection with two bomb threats this month at Northern Maine Community College.

State Police say a Houlton man was killed this morning in a one vehicle crash on Route 1 in Littleton.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will return to Aroostook County this month to hear oral arguments before an audience of high school students from the St.

Fourth-generation dairy farmer Mark McKusick leads two stragglers of his mostly Holstein herd in for milking Thursday in Dexter.

Hoping to mirror what York County town officials and legislators agree is an effective relationship between the two groups at the other end of Maine in Aroostook County, about 60 officials gathered recently to strategize how to create their own powerhouse in Augusta.

Members of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs will have greater access to affordable housing on tribal lands thanks to federal funding.

It's a voice Aroostook County residents have listened to for more than 2 decades.

Rising flood waters have forced the closure of New Brunswick's legislature, shut down an international bridge to the United States and forced dozens of people from their homes across the province.

The more than 60 people who attended a meeting to discuss the development of the Maine Rail Plan told state officials on Tuesday evening that the most pressing statewide and regional rail issue facing them is the fear that Aroostook County may lose vital railroad track in the near future.