WCME is off the air at the present time due to a widespread power outage gripping 7400 customers in Brunswick and Harpswell with another 90 outages in Topsham. Central Maine Power says estimated time of restoration is 1245 this afternoon. No word on what has caused...
Some excitement today in Woolwich but in the end no cause for alarm. A suspicious package was found near the town hall adjacent to the fire station but it turned out to contain nothing more than fireworks. The Sagadahoc County Communications Center had received a...
A motorcyclist is at Maine Medical Center in Portland after having been struck by a car on State Road in Bath, but his injuries are not said to be life-threatening. Scott Bernier of Bath was hit by a vehicle driven by Barbara Johansen, also of Bath,...
Brunswick police chief Richard Rizzo has issued a news release indicating that Garrett Brosnan, the 25-year-old officer arrested this week by federal authorities has now resigned from the force. No other comment from the chief for now, but he says he will be available for...
A Brunswick police officer residing in Bath has been arrested and charged in federal court in Portland with attempting to transfer photos of his genitals to a minor. 25-year-old Garrett Brosnan has been placed on administrative leave by Brunswick police pending an internal investigation, and...
A weekend motorcycle crash on Lisbon Street in Lisbon has now claimed the life of the cyclist. 28-year-old Jeffrey Sickel of Portland died this afternoon at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. He was on a motorcycle struck by an unidentified sport utility vehicle, the...
In Brunswick, a peaceful end to a standoff situation at 383 Mere Point Road, where a man entered his house after having been pursued in a car chase in the wake of a disturbance in Lewiston, in which the man had apparently threatened to kill...
A young man has gone missing from his home in Woolwich and Sagadahoc County sheriff's deputies are looking for him. On May 23, 20-year-old Ben Fisher left his home on Tallman Road and was due to show up at his job at the Staples store...
Another step toward yet another windfall for Bath Iron Works. In Washington, the Senate appropriations committee approves the balance of the funding needed for the construction of an additional Arleigh Burke class destroyer that would be built at the local shipyard. This ship is in addition...
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the murder conviction of 73-year-old Merrill Kimball, convicted last year in the 2013 shooting of Leon Kelley (pictured), who lived in Georgetown. The shooting happened at a bee farm in North Yarmouth. The high court rejected Kimball's major argument...