Maine News Updates

PORTLAND — The school superintendent is seeking parents, students, staff and community members to serve on a search committee to help select a new principal for Deering High School.

FAIRFIELD -- What exactly is the “green economy” and what kinds of jobs are a part of it?

Crews are slated to start construction Feb. 15 at the interesection of Routes 4, 202 and 115 just north of the Windham town line in Gray.

The State Fire Marshal's Office says a blaze that badly damaged a home in Windham Tuesday was intentionally set.

AUGUSTA -- Gov. John Baldacci has nominated Elizabeth Townsend for commissioner of Maine's Department of Conservation, which oversees state parks, public lands and wildlands development.

KENNEBUNK -- Hannaford Supermarkets plans to buy the Garden Street Market and shut it down before it opens its new store on Route 1.

AUGUSTA -- A newly released survey shows Mainers are split in their support for the health reform proposal now before Congress.

WHISTLER, British Columbia -- The U.S. Ski Team says Lindsey Vonn is expected to start in an Olympic downhill training run despite her bruised and swollen right shin.

Updated at 12:15 p.m.

Police have identified the man shot to death Wednesday night at 218 Park Ave. as Serge Mulongo.

Residents of Lexington Township near the Bigelow Preserve are asking southern Mainers to join their effort to block a proposed 48-turbine wind farm near their homes and the Appalachian Trail.