Orono News

Violinist Tai Murray will replace Stefan Jackiw as the featured performer at the Bangor Symphony Orchestra concert, Nov.

Educators, parents and students were at the University of Maine Friday to learn the importance of chinese language and culture in our state.

A possible check scam was reported on Oct. 27. A man told police on Oct. 27 that his employer had refused to pay him for his last 60 hours of work.

Mills in Maine that produce organic wheat flour will be getting a major boost from U.S. Department of Agriculture.

ORONO, Maine a ' An Augusta man was issued a summons for assault early Saturday morning after he punched two University of Maine students on campus.

Members of the University of Maine community sought Wednesday to defend the state system's flagship university against impending cuts to academic budgets, while Chancellor Richard L. Pattenaude and some of the system's board of trustees took questions and heard suggestions about the system's financial future.

The University of Maine says one of its students has tested positive for the swine flu.

Amid corn stalks and Halloween decorations, a Maine State Police officer scours the property at a home on the Pratt Road in Newport on Tuesday, Oct.

Four men were rescued from Moosehead Lake on Tuesday morning after the pontoon boat they were traveling in capsized.

It will take you longer to get through downtown Orono Tuesday, October 27. One lane of the Ferry Hill Bridge will be shut down in the morning so crews can repair a water main leak.

Education Commissioner Susan Gendron is proposing an overhaul of the way the state provides special education to students, with an independent report showing those costs increasing at twice the rate of other education spending.

Keeping the country safe from terrorism is a real concern, and the United States must not abandon the rule of law as it did in the early days of the war on terrorism, U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

Organizers of the American Folk Festival on Friday disputed published reports that they had suspended plans for the 2010 event pending resolution of their accumulated debt.

Offshore wind power in the Gulf of Maine got a big boost last week in the form of an $8 million federal grant from the Department of Energy to a consortium headed by the University of Maine.

For more than two years, school district consolidation has been a contentious issue in Maine.

Friends say a 22-year-old man from Maine found dead in a Billings garbage truck was a talented poet full of wanderlust who dropped out of college to experience the world.

An Orono police sergeant confirmed Tuesday night that a 22-year-old man who died in a tragic accident in Billings, Mont., was from Orono.

ORONO, Maine a ' U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will deliver the William S. Cohen Lecture at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct.

An Orono man was arrested earlier this month on a charge of indecent conduct after Orono police said they found him strolling sans pants.

One by one, as the sun set and daylight slowly dimmed, women approached the microphone to speak.