Newsroom – The Latest News Updates from Q96.1

Check out the news headlines and listen to the latest update for Thursday, April 11.

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency has arrested a  29-year-old woman in connection with an apparent meth lab in the Southern Aroostook County town of Oakfield.

A New Brunswick man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his mother.

The state medical examiner has identified the man who died in Bangor’s first homicide of the year as 30-year-old Thomas N. Taylor.

U.S.  Senator Susan Collins of Maine has added her name an agreement with the NRA on a modified version of the "Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2013."

FairPoint Communications will lay off 90 employees in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire within the next few months.

The U.S. Postal Service has announced it will not reduce mail delivery to 5 days in August as originally planned.

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