ABBOT — An old two-story farmhouse in Abbot was destroyed when an indoor wood stove sparked a fire that enveloped the structure Tuesday afternoon.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County has selected a Bangor firm to oversee the design and budgeting for a project that will add 100 beds to its chronically overcrowded jail and include a number of renovations to the more than 160-year-old facility.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Nearly a month after the Dover-Foxcroft Selectboard authorized the demolition and removal of structures on the property at 72 Lincoln St.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County should spend millions of dollars it is receiving from the federal government on transitional and affordable housing as well as boosting access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment.

Beaver Cove officials have created the town’s first ever emergency operations plan to have resources in place for disasters such as ice storms and power outages and keep residents safe.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Commissioners agreed in September to provide $7,000 to the town of Brownville for a slope study.

AUGUSTA — More than 20,000 people died on U.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County has scheduled a series of in-person and remote meetings to gather community input on how to spend $29.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff Investigators are still piecing together how a man who went missing in LaGrange in June died before a hunter found his body more than five months later on the day after Thanksgiving.

By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff LAGRANGE – The body of a man found several weeks ago has been identified as the person who has been missing from LaGrange for six months.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — An approximate $5.

A former school board member, teacher and coach from Milo will serve nine months and one day in prison for sex crimes involving a former student, according to the district attorney’s office.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Select Board authorized the demolition and removal of structures on the property at 72 Lincoln St.

By Josh Keefe, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County, Maine, and Stafford County, Virginia, are home to slightly more than 151,000 people.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A formal decision will be made after the bid process, but the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office may be equipping patrol vehicles with computers to enable tickets to be written electronically and for deputies to check information on site.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A man who allegedly threatened his recently deceased son’s significant other with a firearm was found dead in his son’s residence following a six-hour standoff with police on Friday.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – A standoff between police and a barricaded subject in Dover-Foxcroft has ended, said Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

GARLAND – A two-story house in Garland was left destroyed after a fire ripped through the wooden structure Thursday night.