Newsroom – The Latest News Updates from Q96.1

Check out the news headlines and listen to the latest update for Thursday, March 7.

A freight train jumped the tracks along Main Street in Mattawamkeag this morning. Authorities say 15 Pan Am Railways tanker cars derailed in the Northern Penobscot County town.

A Maine jury has convicted an insurance agent on 13 counts in a prostitution scandal centered at a Zumba studio in the small coastal town of Kennebunk. Jurors returned the verdict yesterday against Mark Strong, Sr.

McCain Foods is spending $1-million to convert two of its plants in western New Brunswick to natural gas this spring, including the ones in Florenceville-Bristol and Grand Falls.

Police have arrested a Belgrade woman in connection with the theft of more than $2,000 from a church downstate in Fairfield.

March is off to its warmest start in Northern Maine since 1965, according to the National Weather Service office in Caribou.

Gas, diesel and furnace oil prices are all down this morning in New Brunswick.

Listen here to the latest Q96.1 news for Maine and New Brunswick.