Somerset County News

A Waterville man arrested Friday aboard a train in Connecticut after leading police on a chase last week through three central Maine communities faces prison time.

A man who led police on a high-speed chase in 2008 was being sought by police Wednesday after another chase, this one reaching speeds of 90 mph before officers backed off for reasons of public safety.

Two men believed to be involved with the robbery of a general store in June confessed to the crime Monday.

The proposed budget is slightly less than the current one, but the property tax rate, now $19.70 per $1,000 of assessed property value, is unlikely to decrease, because it is also affected by the budgets of the local school district and the county.

A long-awaited, sweeping school-choice bill from Gov. Paul LePage that would remove the cap on public charter schools and give public money to certain private, religious schools is likely to get a cool reaction from legislative Democrats.

A man and a woman were arrested over the weekend for attempting to steal more than $500 worth of merchandise from Walmart while accompanied by four children, according to police.

The Maine Board of Corrections on Tuesday averted a possible shutdown of the Androscoggin County Jail by approving a payout to the jail of about $210,000. The state board, which oversees Maine's network of 15 county jails, voted to withhold all or partial funding from several other jails, including those in Somerset, Knox and Cumberland counties.

A Skowhegan woman was ordered held without bail Monday morning in a New Hampshire courtroom on charges that she was an accessory and co-conspirator in the murder of her brother's former wife.

The 33-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted near the laundromat on Main Street, according to Lt.

The Somerset County Sheriff's Department was called to a stabbing in Norridgewock early Saturday morning.

About 40 camp owners from the Little North Pond area discussed how the North Pond Hermit affected their lives for the past 27 years during a meeting with the district attorney on Saturday.

Members of the public who believe their belongings may have been taken by Christopher Knight, the man known as the North Pond Hermit , will have the opportunity Saturday to claim items police recovered from his campsite.

A new proposal gaining support among lawmakers would make life easier for victims of child sexual abuse.

People who think they lost property to the North Pond Hermit will have a chance to identify and reclaim it Saturday.

Troy Bowen uses his skateboard to make his way to Jokas redemption center in Waterville to cash in two bags of returnable cans.

A Waterville man sentenced Monday on drug trafficking charges in federal court pleaded guilty Friday in state court to stabbing a man outside the Bob-In bar last May 6 in Waterville.

Alcohol and cellphone use are part of an investigation into a two-vehicle accident that injured two men Thursday afternoon, police said.

A high-elevation balloon launched Wednesday by sophomores in Doug Hodem's astrobiology class at Mt.

The husband of a former day-care center operator charged with three counts of unlawful sexual contact is facing additional accusations that he molested two other children.

A local woman accused of helping her brother kill his ex-wife in New Hampshire waived extradition Wednesday at a hearing in Somerset County Superior Court, according to the district attorney.