Maine News Updates

A Cumberland County Jail inmate was charged with biting a corrections officer in the hand this afternoon.

AUGUSTA -- Maine Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman says the state's jobless rate dropped by 0.3 percentage point in October to 8.2 percent

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Education today released a list of proposed state aid reductions for each school district in the budget year ending June 30.

PORTLAND — Police Chief James Craig said today that if it were up to him, he would revoke the concealed-weapon permit of the teacher's aide who mistakenly brought a handgun into Riverton Comm

The man killed in a fiery crash following a high-speed chase Thursday was a Portland man who had no license and was recently released from prison, police said.

OLD ORCHARD BEACH -- Julie Symth has been named assistant principal of the year by the Maine Principals Association.

Updated at 12:17 p.m.

The Topsham teenager who was missing since Tuesday night was found late last night trapped in her car at the bottom of a ravine.