Things You Need to Know Today: Sabattus Man Wanted by Police Turns Himself In

Here are the things you need to  know today......

The Sabattus man police were looking for on domestic violence and other charges turned himself in.  According to centralmaine.com 34-year-old Scott Albert has been considered armed and dangerous.

Sen. Susan Collins slipped on the ice at her Bangor home and broke her right ankle in two places.  Sen. Collins posted a picture of her cast on her Facebook page.

From the Associated Press:

Maine voters may not have realized the minimum wage hike they approved also means more overtime pay. When the minimum wage goes up, so does the salary level for employees eligible to be exempt from overtime rules. Maine businesses and the state's labor department weren't concerned during the campaign, when the federal government had proposed more lenient overtime rules.

Maine voters may not have realized the minimum wage hike they approved also means more overtime pay. For example, a retail worker who makes at least $23,660 a year is exempt from overtime. But when the minimum wage increases to $9 in January, that level will rise to $27,000 annually. The Sun Journal reports that Maine businesses and the state's labor department weren't concerned during the campaign, when the federal government had proposed more lenient overtime rules.

The Maine State Police says one of its troopers rescued an owl that appeared to have been hit by a vehicle on Interstate 95, but the bird later died. Police say Trooper Bernard Brunette was driving northbound in Palmyra on Thursday morning when he noticed the owl in the snow bank on the median. The bird was a young barred owl that had apparently been hit.

A university in Maine's capital city is teaching students about piloting drones. NECN reports the University of Maine at Augusta offers a non-credit course where students can fly small stunt drones and learn how to use the remote controller. The class is in its first semester and nearly 40 students between 16 and 70 years old are enrolled.

Maine U.S. Sen. Angus King is urging President-elect Donald Trump to work with him and his colleagues to help bring down prescription drug costs. King, an Independent, joined 18 Democratic senators in writing a letter to Trump, a Republican, on Tuesday. King has sponsored legislation to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate Medicare drug prices, which his office says could lower costs for 276,000 Maine people.

Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, say they have behind bars a driver accused of firing onto another car and killing a 3-year-old, all because his grandmother wasn't moving fast enough at a stop sign. Police announced the arrest Thursday night. They say Acen King's grandmother was taking him on a shopping trip on Dec. 17 when the shooting happened.

President-elect Donald Trump says that until the rest of the world "comes to its senses" regarding nuclear weapons, the U.S. should "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability." If Trump were to seek an expansion of the nuclear stockpiles, it would mark a sharp shift in U.S. national security policy. President Barack Obama has made nuclear non-proliferation a centerpiece of his agenda, calling in 2009 for the U.S. to lead efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

A charity operated by Donald Trump's son Eric has been benefiting charities connected to the Trump family and members of the charity's board. An Associated Press investigation has found that Eric Trump also exaggerated the size of his foundation and the donations it receives. And the charity's payments for services or donations to other groups repeatedly went to one of Donald Trump's private golf clubs and to charities linked to the Trumps by corporate, family or philanthropic relationships.

Police in western Germany say they're holding two brothers on suspicion that they were planning an attack on a shopping mall. Police say the brothers, born in Kosovo, are 28 and 31 years old. Authorities say they're looking into how far along the suspected attack plan was and whether anyone else was involved.

Final test results are confirming that an experimental Ebola vaccine is highly effective. The World Health Organization led the study of the vaccine, which was developed by the Canadian government and is now licensed to U.S.-based drug company Merck & Co. Merck is expected to pursue regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe sometime next year.