Two nights in Orono: PBS-bound Maine documentary ‘Saving Walden’s World’ screens as a benefit for the Mabel Wadsworth Center

Providence men’s basketball pulls away from UMaine for season-opening win

Freshman guard Hudson Franz led UMaine and netted a team-high 13 points to go with three rebounds.

A woman running the NYC marathon for charity dies 2 miles from the finish

NEW YORK (AP) — A young Pennsylvania woman running the New York City Marathon for the first time to raise money for charity collapsed in Central Park, just over two miles from the finish line, and later died. Rachel Apa, 24, of Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, was approaching the 24-mile mark of the 26.2 mile race Sunday […]

Cara & the Crowd bring world music jam to The Underground Lounge

BELFAST — Cara & the Crowd, the latest project of Maine songwriter and fiddler Cara Lauzon, will take the stage at The Underground Lounge at 17 Court St. in Belfast, on Saturday, Nov. 7.  The group — best described as a world jam band — creates an outrageous blend of genres. Their songs tell the […]

Escaped Tennessee inmate convicted of co-worker's murder is recaptured, officials say

A man convicted of murder who escaped from a Tennessee prison was recaptured on Tuesday in Missouri after more than a week on the run, authorities said. Jacob Morley, who was serving a life sentence for killing a co-worker four years ago, was apprehended outside of Kansas City, Missouri, before midday by the state highway […]

Bangor man charged in bar fight that left woman unconscious

The fight happened outside of a Franklin Street bar early Sunday morning, Bangor police said.