Detroit News

The retired Rockport Elementary School teacher has a vivid memory from childhood when, on a trip to France, her family visited a cemetery in Normandy for Americans killed on D-Day. She was overwhelmed by the "acres and acres, 360 degrees, of headstones.

Don Chute stood beside the new 100-foot-tall wind turbine and talked excitedly about the future.

A family of 5 from Pittsfield is homeless after fire gutted their house yesterday.

A Detroit man was sentenced to six years in prison and four years probation after pleading guilty to killing a friend in a car accident in Troy last fall.

Gov. John Baldacci and other Mainers cheered a new federal proposal Tuesday that would require automakers to sell cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

WALDOBORO : Fawcetta s Maine Antique Toy & Art Museum, located on Route 1 in Waldoboro, opens for the season Saturday, May 30.

SAD 53 to consider closing Burnham Village School PITTSFIELD, Maine - At 4:15 p.m. Wednesday - two hours before a special school board meeting - SAD 53 Superintendent Michael Gallagher found an error in budget calculations that dramatically changed the school board's 2009-2010 budget projections.

A Forest Service helicopter pilot called to a brush fire in Burnham spotted another fire in nearby Detroit Friday afternoon.