Penobscot County News

Utility crews worked through the night to restore power in Maine after a severe thunderstorm hit early Friday.

A task force made up of regional health workers and law enforcement officials brainstormed Friday about how to get the word out about the dangers of underage drinking.

With the support of Senator Susan Collins, the Senate Armed Services Committee has approved the fiscal year 2010 Defense Authorization bill, which authorizes $679.8 billion in funding for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Womancare, a non profit dedicated to ending domestic violence, opened a new facility in Dover-Foxcroft Sunday.

A century ago criminals were starting to make their getaways in automobiles, while law officers were still depending on horses and shoe leather for transportation.

Penobscot County Regional Dispatch has now taken over land-line 911 calls for Aroostook County.

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A Greenbush man charged with robbing two banks less than two weeks apart was indicted Monday by the Penobscot County grand jury for allegedly having 30 pounds of marijuana mailed to himself at the Old Town post office from Texas, and for the Bangor robbery.

NEWBURGH, Maine a ' Officials have shut down a section of Route 69 halfway between Route 9 and the Winterport town line due to a road washout, according to the Penobscot County dispatch center.

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Fire investigators say a pair of house fires in Lagrange this week are both cases of arson.

The state says Jayson Caron, of Danforth, got drunk during the 2007 Springfield Fair, demanded the keys from his pregnant girlfriend, and then rolled his truck and caused her to be para-lyzed and bound to a wheelchair.

PORTLAND : The Maine Supreme Court has denied appeals by Peter Mills and Stephanie Stark, the MDI pair convicted two years ago on multiple rape charges.

Their responsibilities to the people they serve often compliment and overlap each other, but that doesn't mean Bangor City councilors and Penobscot County commissioners are always on the same page.

A fire destroyed a one-family farmhouse Thursday when a pregnant woman frying chicken for her son's 17th birthday left to chase a loose horse and the chicken started to burn.

Four people - three of them from Penobscot County - were arrested Sunday night in Massachusetts after police received a tip suggesting they were transporting drugs from New York to Maine.

An Enfield man was arrested Tuesday afternoon after allegedly threatening another man at the Bangor Mall and then brandishing a loaded handgun at police officers who responded to the threat.

Jay Hallett held the Special Olympics torch alternately in his left and right hands as he jogged along Route 2 on Friday, sweat pouring off his face as his long shuffling strides gobbled up ground.

A westbound pickup truck turns left from Union Street onto Stetson Road West on Thursday as another truck waits at a stop sign on Avenue Road at an intersection in West Levant.

A 59-year-old Enfield man and town employee was killed Wednesday night when his motorcycle struck a moose on U.S. Route 2, a sheriff's official said Thursday.