These are some of the stories central Maine is talking about today.

Residents and officials in a Maine town are honoring a Navy Reserve veteran who was killed in Vietnam 50 years ago. Lieutenant Junior Grade Neil Taylor was the pilot of an attack aircraft that crashed on Sept. 14, 1965. His remains were not recovered until 2013. Gov. LePage ordered flags at half-staff on Monday, when a memorial service honored Taylor in his home town of Rangeley. Taylor was laid to rest with full military honors. U.S. Senator Susan Collins attended the event. A Navy flyover also took place. (AP)

Gas prices in Maine have fallen 2.5 cents per gallon in the past week. Gasbuddy.com, which surveyed 1,228 gas stations in the state, says the average retail gasoline price in Maine is $2.34 a gallon. The national average fell 6.7 cents per gallon to $2.33. The price in Maine was nearly $1.15 less per gallon than a year ago, and nearly 22 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average decreased nearly 33 cents cents per gallon during the last month and is about $1.06 lower than a year ago. (AP)

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is making a campaign stop at a Portland, Maine, middle school as she continues her push for the Democratic nomination. The former secretary of state will appear at King Middle School on Friday. The event is scheduled for 4 p.m. and will be open to the public. It's part of Clinton's effort to build campaign infrastructure outside of the early primary states. Clinton campaigned in Maine last year on behalf of state Democrats who were running in midterm elections. She made an appearance at a Scarborough high school gym in October in support of gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud and others. (AP)

Police say a naked man broke into a Farmingdale home and punched the man who lived there Sunday morning. According to WGME the owner of a home on Bowman Street in Farmingdale says he heard two loud bangs outside his home around 4 a.m. on Sunday. When he went downstairs to see what happened he found 43-year-old Jonathan Choate naked in his home and screaming the name "Jeff." Police say Choate then punched the homeowner in the face. When police arrived the still naked suspect was sitting on the porch.  He was charged with criminal trespass, criminal mischief and assault for the alleged attack. (WGME)

Claudia Viles has resigned from her position as Anson tax collector. According to the KJ, this comes after the Maine Municipal Association, which insures the town, said it will not provide bonding for any money she handles. Viles was indicted by a Somerset County grand jury earlier this month on charges of theft, failure to make and file state income tax returns on five counts, failure to file or pay state income taxes on six counts and tampering with public records in connection with $438,712 missing from the town office between 2011 and last September. She is scheduled for arraignment Thursday in Superior Court at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta. (centralmaine.com)

The Winslow Town Council on Monday gave initial approval to an ordinance that would allow the construction of large-scale commercial solar farms in certain parts of town. According to the KJ, it faces further votes. Town officials were encouraged to draft the regulations after being approached by Ranger Solar, a Yarmouth-based energy company interested in building a 10 to 20 watt power station on Heywood Road. If it moves forward, the 100-acre project could cost as much as $25 million and could be the largest solar project in the state. (centralmaine.com)

A forum aimed at improving the health of Somerset County residents drew a large crowd to the Skowhegan Federated Church.  According to the KJ, yesterday meeting was sparked by a study that lists the county as the least healthy in Maine. The 2015 County Health Rankings was released in March by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and focused on community health issues. The study ranks Somerset County last among the 16 counties in Maine for health outcomes and the current health of residents and second-to-last for health factors, information that can impact health outcomes in the future. (centralmaine.com)

Authorities in Utah say at least seven people were killed when a wall of flood water swept away two vehicles carrying women and children on the Utah-Arizona border. Another six people are missing. The assistant fire chief in Hildale says three people survived as the flash flooding washed the vehicles carrying 16 people several hundred yards downstream. (AP)

Cooler weather has provided some relief to crews battling a 95-square-mile wildfire that ripped through Middletown and rural Lake County in northern California. It's now 10 percent contained. But it and another wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills have destroyed at least 720 homes and hundreds of other structures. Over the weekend a 72-year-old woman who was trapped in her home was killed. (AP)

Seattle has opened more of its community centers to help parents who are scrambling for child care as a teacher strike continues. But several of the centers quickly filled Monday, forcing them to turn families away. The strike, over issues that include pay raises and the length of the school day, has delayed the start of the public school year for about 53,000 students. And the school district has canceled classes for a fifth day Tuesday. (AP)

North Korea says it's revamped and restarted all its atomic bomb fuel production plants. Tuesday's declaration in state media follows Pyongyang's warning Monday that it's ready to launch "satellites" aboard long-range rockets that the West considers banned long-range missiles meant to eventually threaten America's mainland with atomic bombs. (AP)

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are searching for a 2-year-old girl whose father was found dead inside a home in southwestern Alberta. Police believe 27-year-old Terry Blanchette was murdered Monday morning in a home in Blairmore, Alberta, and his daughter, Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette has not been seen since. (AP)

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