Penobscot County News

LINCOLN, Maine The building that housed the Lincoln News, the paper in the Penobscot County community, has been destroyed by fire.

Maine health officials are reporting the state's first swine flu death since August.

The Maine Center for Disease Control says a young adult in Penobscot County is the second person to die in Maine from the H1N1 Influenza.

A Superior Court judge on Thursday rejected a plea agreement in the slaying of a homeless man 18 months ago.

A Hampden man Tuesday told a Superior Court judge that sending the Newburgh man he believed caused his 17-year-old son's death to jail for six months was not enough.

During a recess at Penobscot Superior Court, Ryan Witmer briefly turns towards the gallery behind him while conferring with his defense team--Portland attorneys Daniel Lilley and Darrick Banda Monday afternoon, October 26, 2009.

A Southwest Harbor man who was convicted five years ago of stealing more than $40,000 from a convenience store in his hometown added another conviction to his criminal record on Thursday.

Town officials fired police Officer Chad Chubbuck earlier this week because he would not comply with a town residency requirement that mandated he live within 15 miles of town lines, he said late Thursday.

After several hours of questioning, S tate Police say they have charged Perley Goodrich, Jr.

Maine State Police reported Wednesday morning, Oct. 28, that there have been no confirmed sightings of Perley Goodrich Jr., who is wanted for questioning in the Monday night shooting death of his father and beating of his mother.

The Orrington woman who testified that her former husband tried to kill her and her boyfriend 16 months ago covered her ears Tuesday as a recording of her 911 was played at the request of the defense during her alleged attackera s jury trial in Penobscot County Superior Court.

A Penobscot County grand jury indicted Sean Chaput, 21, of Bangor, on aggravated assault.

The jury trial of an Eddington man charged with trying to kill his estranged wife and her new boyfriend before slitting his own throat nearly 16 months ago began Monday afternoon in Penobscot County Superior Court.

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

Education Commissioner Susan Gendron is proposing an overhaul of the way the state provides special education to students, with an independent report showing those costs increasing at twice the rate of other education spending.

Lucinda Scala Quinn's recipe for Cold Sesame Noodles can be found in the 207 Kitchen section of our websites.

Two out-of-town people were charged with theft and removing political signs recently by local police who caught the couple red-handed, Sgt.

Supporters of a repeal on same sex marriage say their political signs are disappearing off lawns in the greater Bangor area.

The U.S. District Court is considering using space in the Penobscot County Courthouse and the nearby District Court on Hammond Street as temporary quarters while the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building on Harlow Street is undergoing a $53 million renovation.

A Medway man facing trial for a fatal 2008 truck accident was released on $2,000 bail Monday after an initial appearance in 3rd District Court on an alleged bail violation.