Turner News

Tony Leonard, left, and his attorney, Henry Griffin, listen to Assistant District Attorney Lisa Bogue during opening statements Monday in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn.

A Turner man sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing his wife in 2010 appealed his sentence Thursday in Maine's highest court.

The Maine Senate rejected a bill that could eventually ban the use of ethanol in motor fuel in the state in an initial vote Wednesday.

University of Maine new media graduate Jeff Spaulding walked up on stage at UMaine's 211th graduation ceremony traveling the same path that his mother, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great grandfather took years before.

An informational meeting is scheduled this month on a proposal to reduce the number of streetlights from 54 to 10.

The Maine House on Wednesday took a decisive stance against blending ethanol into gasoline, giving initial approval to a bill that would ban the corn-based additive from motor fuel if two other New England states pass similar laws.

Police say are looking for a man who fled from police Wednesday in a stolen Jeep Grand Cherokee before abandoning the vehicle on a logging road.

Firefighters from at least eight towns battle the fire at 497 Plains Road in Turner on Tuesday.