Auburn News

The local man accused of killing a 21-year-old Husson University student called 911 after the woman's death on Nov. 18 and told the dispatcher he had "lost it" and "strangled my ex-girlfriend," according to a transcript of the call.

Peter Robinson of Lewiston reviews a document during a hearing before the state's ethic commission on a failed 2011 campaign for a casino in Lewiston.

WMTW News 8's Jim Keithley reports from Auburn, where firefighters are concerned about the high risk for porch fires.

Spang brings more than 20 years of manufacturing experience to the board, while Donnelly possesses more than 20 years of banking and commercial finance expertise.

News 8's Shernay Williams talked to a friend of 20-year-old Tara Chase, a New Gloucester woman who died in a car crash in Auburn on Monday.

A 20-year-old New Gloucester woman was killed on Riverside Drive on Monday morning when her car skidded into the path of an oncoming car, police said.

Maine's ethics commission Thursday will take up a case involving the local backers of a 2011 campaign that aimed to bring a casino to downtown Lewiston.

A troop of Scouts, with the help of some local veterans and state lawmakers, is bringing a holiday tradition it started in 2011 in Auburn to the State House.

Three weeks after gunfire rattled a Newbury Street neighborhood , police arrested a man and woman who live in the house that was shot.

For much more than a decade, discussions about the possibility of passenger rail service to western Maine have been happening among business and community leaders.

Edward Little High School held a Wednesday night vigil in honor of Brooke Locke, a 2010 graduate who was murdered in Bangor on Nov. 18. NEW DETAILS TONIGHT ABOUT THE DEATH OF HUSSON UNIVERSITY STUDENT BROOKE LOCKE.

A local man was indicted Wednesday on one count each of intentional or knowing murder, kidnapping and gross sexual assault by the Penobscot County grand jury in the strangulation death of a Husson University student earlier this month.

Phil Nadeau, chairman of the Lewiston-Auburn Transit Committee, said he is hopeful the second bus should begin its Lewiston-Auburn service within the next few days.

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority commuter rail alone has more than 130,000 boardings every day, with another half-million or so on the subway itself.

Gasoline prices are rising again in Maine, after falling to a nearly three-year low earlier this month.

Poland business owner and developer, Joseph Cimino, right, talks with Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner George Gervais, second from right, Stephen Robinson, chairman of the Poland Board of Selectmen, second from left, and Poland fire chief and acting town manager Mark Bosse, left, during Monday afternoon's presentation ... (more)

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Brooke Locke's sorority sisters from Epsilon Tau Epsilon during a vigil at the Husson University for Brooke Locke.

The father of Brooke Locke, the Husson University student who police found strangled Monday , said Friday that he was in California picking up a load of materials when he heard his daughter was dead.

As funeral arrangements and memorial plans were made final for the Husson University student who police found Monday strangled in her apartment, an instructor at the university said Brooke Locke had not shown any signs of being worried about her safety.