Maine News Updates

A group of students from the University of Southern Maine has arranged for a series of student presentations Thursday to mark Black History Month and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

NEWRY -- A 58-year-old Texas man has died after skiing into a tree at Maine's Sunday River ski resort.

PORTLAND — Employees of several local businesses will volunteer at Portland Adult Education this week to help students prepare resumes and develop job-interview skills.

AUGUSTA -- The Maine House has passed a resolution opposing Massachusetts National Guard plans to expand low-altitude training flights over western Maine, saying they are too noisy and will disturb

AUGUSTA -- While President Barack Obama calls for passage of a jobs bill in Washington, Maine's top legislative leaders are also calling for bipartisan congressional action to enact a job-creating

CONCORD, N.H. -- A House committee is recommending against repealing New Hampshire's five-week-old gay marriage law.

Maine Fiber Co., a private company, has been formed to oversee the construction, maintenance and leasing of an open access, 1,100-mile, high-capacity fiber-optic network that won $25.4 million

A Cumberland County Jail corrections officer was charged today with gross sexual assault for allegedly having sex with a female inmate.

FairPoint telephone customers in Maine will see their bills lowered by $1.72 a month over the next year as a result of an action today in federal bankruptcy court in New York.

WASHINGTON -- The nation's largest auto insurer said today it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the latest warnin