Rumford News

An 8-year-old boy was being flown to a Massachussetts hospital late Friday after he was burned, apparently during an accident around a campfire.

A Mexican man has been sentenced to eight months in prison for entering the U.S. illegally after being removed as an illegal alien.

ROCKLAND : As promoter Paul Benjamin prepares for the 15th annual North Atlantic Blues Festival this weekend, he can look back on many years of bringing the blues to Rockland.

AUGUSTA : The following information was compiled by the Public Information Office of the Maine Department of Public Safety: Homicides in Maine continue on a near-record-setting pace.

A perennial problem with an industrious family of beavers took a turn for the worse after the toothy rodents one-upped town and state crews by flooding a recreational trail, forcing riders onto Route 2. They ...

U.S. Route 2 in Hanover has been closed due to a serious accident involving a tractor trailer loaded with wood chips and a van.

A bolt of lightning struck a ball field here Wednesday night, sending electrical current through many of the approximately 50 youths and adults assembled for a baseball game and blowing a hole through a nearby ...

A fire in the town of Mexico left two families homeless and injured a firefighter.

A Mexico man accused of terrorizing his girlfriend and trying to run over police with his pickup truck this weekend remained behind bars on Tuesday, unable to post reduced bail.

A 49-year-old Rumford firefighter had a close call over the weekend after a roof collapsed on him while he was battling a fire at an apartment building in the neighboring town of Mexico.

Bill Johnston was lifeless when fellow firefighters dug him from the debris of a collapsed roof and carried him to a waiting ambulance.

Ten firefighters accused by former Town Manager Jim Doar with violating town policy regarding politics on June 4, are serving disciplinary suspensions this week and into July.

Rumford lawyer Seth Carey appears to be headed for court - to answer a request that he be barred from practicing law.

Selectmen appointed a 14-member Economic Development Committee on Thursday while keeping the door open to anyone else who would like to help improve the town's economic climate.

A Temple driver was critically injured Monday evening when his car crossed the center line on Route 2 in East Wilton and struck a tractor-trailer, police said Tuesday.

She's blazing trails for other women, making the community safer and protecting the environment.

ROCKLAND : There will be a free workshop to help health care providers, businesses and schools to learn about MaineCare and other health care coverage on Oct.

The 133rd Engineer Battalion may return to Iraq in the next two years. The 500-soldier unit, including men and women across Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties, has been put on notice that it may be ...

In addition to discussing SAD 43's plan for consolidating with SADs 21 and 31, and Hanover, directors and Superintendent James Hodgkin addressed ramifications of last week's teen booze party in Roxbury.

Twenty-five students, mostly from Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, were summoned early Wednesday morning after Maine State Police learned about an underage drinking party at Bunker Pond in Roxbury, ...