AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman says the state's jobless rate dropped by 0.3 percentage point in October to 8.2 percent

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An Augusta woman who says she contracted an E. Coli infection after eating meat produced by New York-based Fairbank Farms has filed a lawsuit against the company.

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. John Baldacci ordered Maine state departments Friday to curtail spending by $63 million to make sure the budget is balanced.

TOPSHAM, Maine (AP) — Topsham police say a local teenager missing for two days was trapped in her car in a ravine.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's looming budget shortfall is casting a shadow over the state's public campaign finance fund.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Portland Charter Commissioner says voters should choose the city's mayor.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Safety officials say Maine's highway death toll for the year remains below 2008, which was the safest year on the state's roads since 1959.

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — State police say a high-speed chase on the Maine Turnpike ended when the car they were chasing crashed and burst into flames, killing the driver.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's highest court has overturned a lower court judge's ruling that a state law that authorized game wardens to stop all-terrain vehicle operators without cause was unconstitutional.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's health director says the need for swine flu vaccine is widening as the disease spreads throughout the state.

RUMFORD, Maine (AP) — The New England Seismic Network says a small earthquake shook parts of western Maine early Thursday morning.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The head of Maine's court system will meet with an advisory panel to discuss an issue facing all state agencies: budget cuts.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A longtime teacher's aide at the Riverton Community School in Portland has been placed on administrative leave after bringing a handgun to school.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Portland International Jetport is reporting its best third quarter ever.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine health insurers are taking steps to encourage swine flu shots to prevent spread of the disease, which has already contributed to five Maine deaths.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — New England lobstermen are bracing for potential bait shortages next summer after fishery managers voted to slash the amount of herring that can be caught next year.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A 51-year-old carpenter is being charged with killing his girlfriend in her Portland apartment.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine is getting nearly $10 million in stimulus funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to support clean energy projects that promote lower energy use, reduce carbon pollution and create green jobs.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — An Augusta businessman is challenging the petitions leading to a people's veto vote over the tax reform law enacted by the Maine Legislature last spring.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Baldacci administration official says social services in Maine will have to be cut again to account for plunging revenues.

OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (AP) — Maine state police are at a home where two people were found shot death in the seaside town of Old Orchard Beach.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Future students in the University of Maine System will have more courses to choose from, a curriculum that relies more heavily on computers and higher tuition costs as a result of a plan to save nearly $43 million that...

NEW YORK (AP) — Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp. has agreed to pay $3 million to 32 states to settle an investigation into some of its business practices.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's economic development department has a new acting commissioner to take the place of John Richardson, who's resigned to seek the Democratic nomination for governor.