By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff The number of overdose deaths in July topped 50 for the second month in a row with 25 percent of those deaths reported in Penobscot County.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County Treasurer and former Bangor School Committee member John Hiatt was indicted Friday by the Penobscot County grand jury on charges related to his alleged harassment of a female friend.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff A text alert issued Thursday morning that was among the first of its kind warned that there had been a spike in drug overdoses in Penobscot County over the past 24 hours.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County is considering leasing a 50-bed mobile jail unit that would sit in the current jail’s parking lot to ease chronic overcrowding at the facility, which is licensed to hold 157 inmates.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff A Superior Court judge on Monday, Aug.

Observer photo/Stuart HedstromTRAINING SESSION — Approximately 20 firefighting trainees from more than a half dozen departments across the region took part in a live burn session on the morning of Sunday, Aug.

By Sawyer Loftus, Penobscot Times Staff The Maine Department of Corrections has issued a conditional license that will allow the Penobscot County Jail to continue operating while it works over the next 90 days to address overcrowding at the Bangor facility.

By Sawyer Loftus, Penobscot Times Staff Penobscot County Jail could lose its license after a biannual inspection found it to be over capacity.

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff A 77-year-old man who was serving a 70-year sentence for the 1983 murder of an Orono woman died Tuesday, Aug.

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff A 26-year-old woman from Middletown, New Jersey, was airlifted from Doubletop Mountain in Baxter State Park on Tuesday afternoon, Aug.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Among the many efforts of the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council to improve the region are the development of an economic development strategy and a broadband planning grant project.

By The Associated Press BANGOR — A motorist pleaded guilty to manslaughter and aggravated drunken driving Monday, Aug.

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff A hiker from Rhode Island was airlifted off Katahdin on the afternoon of Aug.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff An assistant U.

CHARLESTON — The Maine Department of Corrections on Aug.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff MILO — A former school board member from Milo who was a teacher and tennis coach at Penquis Valley High School was arrested Tuesday and charged with sex crimes involving a former student, according to the Piscataquis County District Attorney’s Office.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously called on Treasurer John Hiatt to resign immediately after his arrest last week on a possession of child pornography charge.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Dexter woman died Monday evening in a single vehicle rollover, according to Dover-Foxcroft Police.