Bangor News

AUBURN a ' Jesse Speirs has been knocking on the door of a Maine Amateur golf title for a number of years, but the Bangor native would only come close.

A special Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce board meeting will take place this afternoon.

State and federal drug agents have broken up two drug trafficking rings, one based in the Bangor area with links to New York and the other based in the Augusta area with ties to Massachusetts.

A friendship that took root during World War Two and has endured through generations, was on public display in bangor today.

Tuesday marks the 25 year anniversary of the death of Charlie Howard, a young man who drowned in the Kenduskeag Stream after three teenagers threw him over the State Street Bridge because he was gay.

It's been 25 years since Charlie Howard was chased down in Bangor, beaten, kicked and tossed into a stream because he was gay.

The U.S. Census Bureau is opening an office in Gardiner, Maine, this fall and plans to hire up to 1,000 people.

First came the rain. Buckets of rain. Three weeks of rain. Now come the mosquitoes.

Members of a youth missionary group from local churches went back to work Monday in Honduras, the day after a military coup overthrew the government of President Manuel Zalaya.

People who ride the BAT bus in Bangor will be happy to know that the state is buying four new buses to replace older buses in the fleet.

Area - achievers' are invited to celebrate the 1998 cult classic - The Big Lebowski' at a two-day Bowl-a-Rama during the Fourth of July weekend Jeff Bridges stars as The Dude, a lover of pajama pants and white Russians, in the Coen brothers' "The Big Lebowski." In a nod to the cult classic after more than a decade since its release, a two-day ...

The Tweet went around the world on Thursday, and the message was heard by local Iranians who took action to honor the dead.

Eli Clein, 10, and his father Lee Clein of Bangor look at bicycles that were auctioned off through the Bangor Police Department on Saturday morning, June 27, 2009 in Bangor.

Undercover agents purchased cocaine from a man at an apartment near Abraham Lincoln Elementary School on two occasions recently and planned a third purchase last week, but the man took off with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency's money.

Robert Landry, Grand Master of Masons in Maine, addresses the crowd gathered at former Bangor Theological Seminary on Tuesday, June 30, 3009, to hear the announcement concerning the Bangor Masonic Foundation's recent purchase of part of the former BTS property, including the Beach Chapel, the Ruth Rich Hutchins Center, and the Wellman Commons.

Sixty-four members of the All Souls Congregational Church were in Honduras Sunday when the country's president was ousted from his position and exiled from the country in a military coup.

President Manuel Zelaya was removed from office Sunday morning, as soldiers disarmed the presidential guard at his palace.

Route 1A in Ellsworth was at a standstill for about an hour tonight as police cleaned up a deadly two car accident.

Bangor's getting a lot of new street lights. Money from the federal stimulus program will help the city switch hundreds of street lights to energy efficient lighting.

Bangor native Dr. Scott Cohen is pictured on the Global Pediatric Alliance Web site using a chicken as a casualty victim to demonstrate to a Guatemalan woman how to suture a machete wound.