This is what it looked like last evening in Belfast, when a 74-year-old man from New York state accidentally drove his car into Belfast Harbor. William Haley MEANT to turn into the parking lot of the nearby Weathervane restaurant. It could have been far worse....
Update from Radio 9 WCME: Freeport police now say a black man about six feet tall entered Key Bank on Main Street with a semi-automatic handgun and fled in a silver sport utility vehicle with an undisclosed amount of money. That vehicle had been reported stolen...
Freeport police are investigating an armed robbery Friday afternoon at the Key Bank branch at 135 Maine Street. Police say the suspect is a black male armed with a handgun. Police are so far releasing no other information--but there are no indications of any injuries....
Here is Jim Bleikamp's interview with state police spokesman Steve McCausland, who says 71-year-old Svend Jorgensen killed his wife and son before turning a gun on himself. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/McCausland-wrap-q.-violence.mp3"][/audio]...
Steve also responds in this brief interview to questions about the circumstances of the deaths and doesn't rule out the possibility that there was violence. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/McCausland-Sunday-PM-update.mp3"][/audio]...
Update from WCME News 9: Three bodies have been discovered in two homes in Boothbay Harbor--one on Lakeside Drive and the other on Montgomery Road. But state police now say they believe no one else is involved other than the three victims who were all...
Senator Angus King, a Brunswick resident, says he plans to undergo surgery for prostate cancer, and says he hope for a full recovery after his doctor found the cancer early. King is 71 years old, and this is actually King's second cancer diagnosis. Forty years...
The War Is Over Brunswick's high-pitched battle over a new town budget has finally ended, with councilors approving a spending plan for the new fiscal year that calls for a tax rate increase of three and a half percent--higher than many like but considerably lower than...
A High-Decibel Rally in Bath A lively midday union rally outside the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath. Workers wearing black t-shirts emblazoned with the words "we will strike." The word "dictator" was tossed around quite a bit, and there was a larger-than-life "anti-union rat" on...
The Natives Are Restless In Freeport, there are some unhappy residents on the western edge of the town near I-295, where state transportation crews have been cutting trees, saying that it's necessary for safety reasons, so that the trees won't get in the way of the...