One person was found dead following a fire that swept through a home in Camden and four others went to hospitals, officials said Thursday.

Fire Chief Chris Farley said the house was engulfed...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A legal dispute over whether a Georgia judge can order local leaders to create new courtroom space may finally make it to a courtroom.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Maine county board voted to move the statue of Melville Fuller, who was an Augusta native and served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when it decided Plessy...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Officials in Augusta say the local jail is nearly full in part because jury trials remain suspended in Georgia because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Government leaders in Augusta-Richmond County are considering increasing their pay, even as the mayor urges commissioners to consider wider changes to the government...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — An Army officer in Georgia who held a top-secret security clearance has been sentenced to serve three decades in federal prison for producing child pornography, authorities...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A foundation has awarded the University of Maine at Augusta a grant of nearly $1 million to support a prison education program.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says ice conditions are much better for fishermen on Maine lakes and ponds.

An agreement between the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and advocates for people with psychiatric and mental health needs could end 30 years of court oversight of state mental...

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is appealing a federal court decision that says it can't demolish a dam on the Savannah River.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Judges are still unhappy about a plan to split a Georgia judicial circuit to give a suburban county its own court system and district attorney.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia pharmacist convicted of health care fraud is among 73 people pardoned by outgoing President Donald Trump.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Though the holidays have come and gone, John Jarman's Christmas lights are still burning bright.

Jarman says he spent a year planning the display, about 1,800 colored...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's governor announced Friday she has activated the Maine National Guard as a precautionary measure in advance of potential demonstrations this weekend.

PITTSTON, Maine (AP) — A 15-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the hand with a pistol found in his grandfather's coat, police in Maine said.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Mainers have begun receiving the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A small group of Republican lawmakers who don't like some of Gov. Janet Mills' executive orders during the pandemic plans to use a Maine Statehouse appearance to make a...

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's pair of U.S. Senate runoffs have prompted hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign spending, but the low-profile runoff for the state's Public Service Commission is no...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The waters of the Kennebec River peaked at more than three feet above flood stage after a winter storm and snow melt.

Waters rose in the area of Augusta and surrounding...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Splitting up a three-county judicial district in Georgia could cost millions of dollars, according to a cost analysis done by a judge.

JAY, Maine (AP) — Workers who lost jobs as a result of an explosion at a paper mill in Jay are now eligible for free training and classes at a pair of community colleges.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A crash in Maine's capital city killed a 41-year-old man and injured his 6-year-old daughter, police said.

The crash killed Scott W. Jones on Monday night, police said....

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine hospitals on Monday began receiving the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine produced by Pfizer. The first doses were going to seven Maine hospitals, as well as...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Leaders in a city in Georgia and another one in South Carolina are discussing the future of the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam after a federal judge blocked a plan to remove...

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — Streaming giant Netflix is trying to spread holiday cheer in Natchez.

The company is putting up Christmas decorations in Natchez and four other cities in the country,...

EVANS, Ga. (AP) — A suburban Georgia county wants lawmakers to split it off into its own judicial circuit.

Columbia County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the General Assembly...

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WASHINGTON, Ga. (AP) — A 16-year-old east Georgia boy has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes following the shooting death of a 15-year boy.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine experienced record-breaking voter turnout in the Nov. 3 election that was conducted safely despite the global pandemic, Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said...

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — One person was killed and 14 were injured in an early shooting Saturday at a nightclub in South Carolina.

The Aiken County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A federal court says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can't demolish a dam downriver from Augusta if it doesn't maintain the current water level.

NEW SHARON, Maine (AP) — Authorities in Maine said Tuesday they're investigating the death of a woman who was found following a house fire in New Sharon.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The first Black person to serve as the mayor of the consolidated Augusta-Richmond County government has died.

Mayor Hardie Davis announced the death of Willie Mays III on...

CLINTON, Maine (AP) — A teenage driver in a February crash that killed three youths has pleaded guilty in Maine.

The 17-year-old from Clinton was 16 at the time of the crash that killed...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Some Maine lawmakers are preparing to start tackling health care reform proposals that could go to the full Legislature when it returns in January.