Category — Portland, Maine

WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEWS CENTER)–The U.S. Senate has confirmed Sandy Blitz of Maine to be the federal co-chair of the northern border regional commission.

LEWISTON, Maine (NEWS CENTER)–Lewiston attorney and longtime judge Thomas Delehanty has been nominated by President Obama to be U.S. Attorney for Maine.

STONINGTON, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Lobstermen from different parts of the world are in Maine this week to talk about what they can do to improve their industry.

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — When the Sea Hunter left Portland loaded with relief supplies, no one thought it would take nearly six weeks to deliver its cargo of donated goods to the people of Haiti.

ROCKLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Work has begun on repairing the large sinkhole on Old County Road in Rockland.

SACO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Game wardens and police have questioned at least one person about the venemous snake discovered in Saco.

ROCKLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Defense attorney Will Avantaggio sums up the Matinicus Island shooting case this way: “This is about a lot more than guns. This is about suspicion, anger, threats of violence and violence itself.”

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Edgard Anziani, the man charged with killing a little boy in Bangor two weeks ago, is expected back in Bangor Wednesday night.

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — It looks like Trader Joe’s is coming to Portland. The company has applied to the federal government to purchase the former Wild Oats Market store on Marginal Way.

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Two corrections officers at the Cumberland County Jail were in court Wednesday morning in Portland, but neither man entered a plea.

LEWISTON, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — This is ‘March for Meals’ month for Meals on Wheels programs throughout the country.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five women from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are among the 200 female pilots honored in Washington with the Congressional Gold Medal for their World War II service.

LEWISTON, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston is the first Maine hospital to get the national Energy Star certification.

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — City leaders in Portland say a megaberth proposed as part of Governor Baldacci’s bond package will help accommodate the growing number of cruise ship visits.

AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Governor Baldacci says while corporate earnings are up, most businesses still aren’t creating jobs. He says that’s why a $79 million bond package is needed.

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — People flooded a candlelight vigil Tuesday night to honor a 15-month-old boy killed late last month.

ORONO — University of Maine sophomore hockey goaltender Scott Darling has authorized the university to issue the following statement on his behalf. Darling has indicated that this will be his only public comment until he returns to the team.

PORTLAND , Maine (NEWS CENTER) - Greg Brooks, the owner of the Sea Hunter has returned home after delivering supplies to Haiti. Find out what he had to say at the end of a long, difficult road… including piracy and dealing with beaurocracy.

ROCKLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - The Maine Department of Transportation is ready to start fixing the 65 foot chasm in Old County Road.

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — The murder trial of Michael Toby started Wednesday morning. Toby is charged with killing his 70-year-old sister, Rosalie Shedd, at her apartment in Dover-Foxcroft in October 2008.

CLEARLAKE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have identified two bodies found in an embankment as a Maine couple who worked at a Northern California marijuana growing operation.

BARRINGTON, N.H. (AP) — The husband of a 29-year-old New Hampshire woman who went missing in Maine says their 2-year-old son keeps asking about his mother.

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — The long and strange trip is over for the crew of a Maine-based ship that offloaded 200 tons of earthquake relief supplies in Haiti.

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Environment Maine is pushing for state leaders to include solar power in Maine’s future energy plans.

AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Legislators continued discussing a bill Tuesday to put warning labels on cell phones.

ROCKLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — The prosecution has rested its case in the Matinicus Island shooting trial.

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)— A federally funded medical organization is looking to become the new owners of the Acadia Recovery Community, or A.R.C., in Bangor.

WEST NEWFIELD, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — A general store has been a fixture in the community of West Newfield since the 1800’s, that is until the economy forced it to close late last spring.

JAY — No one was injured Tuesday when a tractor-trailer loaded with pulpwood collided with a Chevrolet Blazer as they both headed south on Route 4 near the base of Jay Hill, Jay police officer Russell Adams said.

Voters in Industry and New Vineyard will elect officers and decide on spending amounts at their respective annual town meetings Saturday. In Industry, a budget of $380,298.45 will stand if voters pass all articles as written.