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Gov. Paul LePage held a press conference at the State House on Jan. 8 to address racially-charged remarks he made at a meeting in Bridgton on Jan. 6.

The Gardiner Rite Aid pharmacy on was robbed today (Feb. 18) and police are looking for the male suspect.

Charges have been filed for seven people involved in an interstate drug smuggling effort that brought drugs into the Maine State Prison in Warren.

Crime, sex, and drugs, but the only rock 'n' roll in these women's lives is the time they've wasted going in and out of the corrections system in Maine, all because of their addiction to drugs. "Most of them never start out intending to become addicts and criminals," states Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty.

Heroin use in Maine is on the rise. Twenty-eight of 163 people who died from overdoses in 2012 were due to heroin. Last year's numbers will likely exceed those of 2012. The 2013 numbers have yet to be released.

Drugs with a street value of $11,000 were seized Friday(Nov. 15) afternoon after State Police pulled over a car on Interstate 95 near mile marker 134 in Benton. Seized from the Massachusetts couple was 53 grams of heroin, 10 grams of crack and a small quantity of marijuana...

Drugs with a street value of $11,000 were seized Friday(Nov. 15) afternoon after State Police pulled over a car on Interstate 95 near mile marker 134 in Benton. Seized from the Massachusetts couple was 53 grams of heroin, 10 grams of crack and a small quantity of marijuana...

There's been yet another pharmacy robbery in Augusta. Augusta Police say the CVS Pharmacy on Stone Street was robbed Tuesday (Jan. 22) around 4pm.

Hey this was MY idea... GPS chips in certain drug bottles. Well, the New York Police Department wants pharmacies in and around NYC to fight prescription drug thefts by stocking pill bottles fitted with GPS tracking chips. With so many pharmacy robberies in Maine last year, we can see where this is a good idea.