Penobscot County News

The Penobscot County budget committee approved a 14.8 million dollar budget Wednesday.

On Monday night, MDEA Agents and Old Town Police executed a search warrant at the home of Christopher Daley on Main Street in Old Town.

The Department of Environmental Protection is cleaning up a chemical spill after a trucker, driving drunk on I-95, rolled his rig Sunday night.

After a string of stolen catalytic converters in Bangor and Brewer, officers from both communities began working together and their efforts paid off Thursday with the arrest of a Bangor couple.

The state of Maine has seen its third swine flu death. State Public Health Director Dr.

AUGUSTA, Maine a ' The state of Maine has seen its third swine flu death. State Public Health Director Dr.

The state of Maine has seen its third swine flu death, and the disease is continuing to wreak havoc in schools with 65 outbreaks.

State health officials say there's been a third death in Maine related to the H1N1 virus.

The two inmates who escaped Saturday night from the Bolduc Correctional Facility remained on the lam Monday evening, according to a Maine Department of Corrections official.

Two Bangor residents face charges of dealing OxyContin after Maine Drug Enforcement agents confiscated more than 800 pills with a street value in excess of $80,000, authorities said Monday.

Patricia Peard and Jesse Connolly of the No on 1 campaign stand at the podium during a press conference on the steps of Portland City Hall on the morning of Wednesday, Nov.

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.