Maine News Updates

AUGUSTA -- Maine's attorney general says the state will be receiving $45,000 as part of a $3 million multistate settlement with Vonage Holdings Corp., an Internet-based telephone company.

PORTLAND — A plea hearing was postponed today for the Portland man accused of setting several cars on fire and stealing items from them on the morning of April 11, 2008.

Unum is eliminating some Portland-based jobs, a company official confirmed today, as part of “normal fluctuations in employment levels.”

Updated at 12:47 p.m.

Fishery managers from around New England will gather in Rhode Island on Tuesday to vote on a new herring catch limit that some fear will lead to a bait shortage for Maine lobstermen.

The City Council plans to expand Portland's Youth Advisory Council at tonight's regular meeting in hopes of giving a stronger voice to area teens.

AUGUSTA -- The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development has a new leader.

WELLS -- A River at Risk, the Ogunquit River Watershed Conference, will be held Friday at the Dunaway Community Center, 23 School St., Ogunquit.

BANGOR -- Trustees for the seven-campus University of Maine System have approved a plan to cut costs and improve efficiency to avoid a nearly $43 million budget shortfall by 2013.

WASHINGTON -- A new Associated Press poll shows Americans are divided about the Democratic health care bills advancing in Congress.