Maine News Updates

MANCHESTER — Seven people visited the hospital in Augusta after a three-car crash closed part of Route 17 Saturday afternoon.

WINTHROP — A Monmouth man is behind bars after he sped his way into a ditch late Friday night, according to Winthrop police.

NEWINGTON, Conn.

AUGUSTA — Two more Mainers have died of complications related to H1N1 influenza, the state reported today.

Authorities have found two inmates who escaped from Bolduc Correctional Facility last weekend in Vermont.

AUGUSTA — A retired Army nurse is getting a salute from Gov. John Baldacci as the nation honors its veterans.

 About 100 people, many of them carrying signs, rallied in Augusta today to encourage Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to support federal health care legislation.

 Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said today that a group hoping to overturn a new tax reform law has enough signatures to put a question on the June ballot.

A coalition that includes environmental groups and retailers announced today a new campaign to reduce the use of plastic and paper bags by 33 percent by 2012.

AUGUSTA -- A prominent figure in Maine’s social conservative movement received a death threat at his former workplace Friday, three days after Maine voters approved a repeal of the state&rsqu