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Police tape warns drivers away from railroad tracks at a confusing intersection and curve on Route 1A in Ellsworth. Over the span of three days during the week of May 13, three cars driving in rain or fog ended up on the tracks after failing to navigate the curve.

Confused by curve, three drivers go off road and onto railroad tracks in Ellsworth

ELLSWORTH, Maine — Over the span of three hours on a foggy night this past week, two cars failed to navigate a confusing curve on ...

Heather Turcotte, a nurse at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, listens to Sandi Croft of College for ME — Androscoggin as Turcotte registered her daughter for kindergarten at Sherwood Heights Elementary School in Auburn on Friday. Turcotte has an associate degree, but has been considering going back to college for a bachelor's degree.

Auburn parents get college counseling at kindergarten registration

2 hours ago AUBURN, Maine — Heather Hill, 34, came to Sherwood Heights Elementary School on Friday to register her son, Elliott, for kindergarten. She didn’t know she’d ...

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Bar Harbor residents Valery and Mike McCadden pray during a Sunday worship service at the St. Thomas Traditional Anglican Church in Ellsworth.

Got faith? Maine the least-religious state in the nation

Maine has fewer residents who claim a religious affiliation than any other state in the union. The Pine Tree State is the only one in ...

14-year-old Albion boy dies after crashing car

ALBION, Maine — A local teenager was killed Thursday afternoon ...

Police officers have three men on the ground near the corner of Bates and Ash Streets in Lewiston on Friday evening.

Gunshots rattle downtown Lewiston, several men detained

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RSU 67 attorney stands behind superintendent in labor complaint

LINCOLN, Maine – The attorney representing RSU 67 in a ...

Steelworkers with Brewer-based Arc Erectors fix the final major piece of the skeleton of the new Bangor arena on Friday, May 18, 2012. Arc Erectors held its own topping off ceremony, one month after Cianbro Corp. and city officials celebrated by hoisting a similar beam to the highest point of the building's superstructure.

Bangor arena ‘topped off’ again as final piece of structural frame hoisted into place

Lewiston call center laying off 181

2 hours ago LEWISTON, Maine — Nearly 200 people working at the call ...

Parking enforcement workers Lew Dyer IV (left) and Travis Spencer have been working vigorously this week to mark cars and write parking tickets, with more than 100 written by Thursday afternoon. "It's a crackdown, I guess," Dyer said.

Belfast: Parking scofflaws need to find another community

State budget gives big tax break to Millinocket torrefied wood plant

MILLINOCKET, Maine — New England’s first torrefied wood facility will ...

University of Maine professor of insect ecology Frank Drummond (left), research scientist Jennifer Lund (right) and graduate student Beth Choate (obscured) check a beehive while collecting samples of bees from hives that are observed as a study in Stockton Springs in April 2009.

A billion bees ‘from away’ are essential to Maine’s wild blueberry crop

Groups looking to start charter schools in Maine share plans with state

AUGUSTA, Maine — Nine organizations hoping to win state charters ...

Christy Adams stands behind the counter at the Lobsterman's Restaurant on Main Street in Rockland recently.

Midcoast sees retail boom in first quarter

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Bangor teen breaks the stigma of mental illness

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Alaska Airlines Capt. Trent Davey (right) and first officer Andy Kullick (left) hold up a 55-pound Copper River king salmon on Friday, May 18, 2012, as the annual first air shipment of the prized salmon arrived from Alaska early Friday morning in Seattle. Copper River salmon are prized for their high oil content and flavor. They typically bring the highest prices at restaurants and fish markets.

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Bunny Gibson plays the role of Selma Broadwick during dress rehearsal of the original play "The Skylight Club" at the Hammond Street Senior Center in Bangor on Thursday, May 17, 2012.

Putting on an original musical makes these seniors feel young again

Smoke rising from the Gladiator Fire is seen from Spring Valley, Ariz., Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Officials working to keep the wildfire away from the historic Arizona mining town of Crown King, a community of mostly summer homes about 85 miles north of Phoenix, are telling any residents still in their homes to leave now.

Pictures of the Day: Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Ex-teacher walks path of Jesus in chaplaincy; earns degree from Bangor seminary

Lane Soltesz of Bowdoin teaches Cody Phillips of Waterford how to tie a fly at the Trout Unlimited fly-fishing table at the Southern Maine Water Festival on Friday, May 18, 2012, at the Portland campus of University of Southern Maine.

Water Festival makes educational splash with students in Portland

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Outdoors

Moosehead fisheries efforts paying dividends

Tim Obrey and his fisheries colleagues in the Moosehead Lake region have spent the past several years addressing a problem with no easy solution. There ...

Opinion

Supporters of same-sex marriage practice role playing as they hone their persuasion skills at the Equality Maine campaign office in Brewer on Tuesday, May 15, 2012.

The course of gay marriage

Maine and the country as a whole are closely divided on the subject of same-sex marriage. But polls show there is a growing percentage of ...

Sports

Oxford Hills Annika Kahkonen eyes the ball yet drops it allowing Bangor's Anna Morris to score in the second inning at Bangor.

Stanhope, Cosgrove lead Bangor past Oxford Hills

BANGOR, Maine — The Bangor High School softball team picked up some valuable Heal points Friday as sophomore right-hander Alexis Stanhope tossed a three-hitter and ...

Health & Fitness

Food allergies: On the rise and, for some, life-threatening

You probably know someone with a food allergy. Studies have shown that the prevalence of food allergies among children increased by nearly 20 percent from ...

Living

Things To Do This Weekend, May 18-20: Let’s go fly a kite, and other spring things

1. What’s the word in downtown Bangor? Well, from the looks of it it’s going to be 100% gorgeous all weekend, so what better time ...

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A billion bees ‘from away’ are essential to Maine’s wild blueberry crop

DEBLOIS, Maine — The blueberry barrens of Down East Maine are literally buzzing this weekend with anticipation of a bumper crop of wild bush blueberries, ...