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

Gas prices in Maine have fallen 1.7 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 $2.37 a gallon. The national average fell 6.1 cents per gallon to $2.39. The price in Maine was over $1.13 less per gallon than a year ago, and 22.6 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average decreased 20.2 cents per gallon during the last month and is nearly $1.04 lower than a year ago. (AP)

Augusta Police would like to know who’s behind a vandalism spree targeting vehicles and at least one house. By late Monday morning, police had ten reports of vandalism on five streets on the east side of the city. According to WABI most of the vandalism involved vehicles that were spray painted. Anyone with information should call Augusta P.D. (WABI)

The potential redevelopment of the old T.W. Dick Co. properties near Cobbosseecontee Stream in Gardiner will be discussed Wednesday by the City Council. According to the KJ, Gardiner is interested in finding developers who could revitalize the steel-fabrication company’s former properties. Gardiner, who ended up with the site because of unpaid sewer and tax bills, is also seeking federal grant funding to pay for the cleanup of contaminants identified on the site. That meeting is tonight at 6 at City Hall. (centralmaine.com)

The principal at Waterville Senior High School is on paid administrative leave. Principal Don Reiter was put leave last week and is being investigated by police. According to WGME Tuesday afternoon, inside his lawyer’s office in Portland, school officials explained to Reiter what someone has accused of him and why police got involved. His lawyer said the accusations are untrue, but won't give any information about what they are. His lawyer only said he expects the situation to wrap up quickly. (WGME)

The Maine Legislature's Government Oversight Committee is going to hold a public hearing after an investigation found that the LePage administration threatened the funding of a charter school over the hiring of House Speaker Mark Eves as its leader. The report said the acting education commission withheld a quarterly payment as the LePage administration put pressure on Good Will-Hinckley for hiring Eves. Eves eventually was fired before he began his job on July 1. The Democrat accused the Republican governor of blackmailing the school's board into firing him by threatening to withhold $530,000. He's also suing the governor. Sen. Roger Katz, committee co-chairman, said the panel's job is to determine facts. He held out the option of issuing subpoenas if parties decline an invitation to testify at a public hearing. (AP)

Maine officials say five people were killed on motorcycles over the long holiday weekend, pushing the state death toll for riders to 26 so far this year. The Maine Bureau of Highway Safety says this could be the deadliest year for motorcycle deaths since 1991 when 34 people died in motorcycle crashes. Both 2012 and 2009 ended with 24 motorcycle deaths each. (AP)

The lawyer for a runner who set a speed record for completing the Appalachian Trail is set to meet with a prosecutor and judge in Maine to see if a settlement can be reached over citations issued for violating rules in Baxter State Park. Scott Jurek of Colorado was cited for drinking Champagne, littering and hiking in an oversize group when he reached the summit of Mount Katahdin in July. Park officials are worried about crowding and commercialization of the wilderness trail. Jensen Bissell, park director, has even discussed moving the trail off of park land. Jurek's lawyer says Baxter State Park officials are trying to make an example of him. The district attorney says the land was given to the state with a strict set of guidelines to follow. (AP)

Secretary of State John Kerry plans on Wednesday to brief members of the House and Senate Judiciary committees about how many Syrian refugees the U.S. is willing to take in. Throughout Syria's 4½-year civil war, the U.S. has accepted only about 1,500 Syrians — a tiny percentage of the 11.6 million people who have fled the country. Usually, refugees wait around three years to find out if they can move to the United States. (AP)

Leaders of the United Nations refugee agency are warning that Hungary faces a bigger wave of 42,000 asylum seekers in the next 10 days and will need international help to provide shelter on its border. Officials from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees say they're sending tents, beds and thermal blankets to Hungary's border with Serbia. Some frustrated migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa have been ignoring instructions from Hungary police to stay put, and instead have started walking the journey north to Budapest. (AP)

Authorities in Thailand say a key suspect in the Bangkok shrine bombing that killed 20 people admits handing the bomb over to the man seen in video planting the explosive at the shrine. Police say Yusufu Mierili told them he carried the backpack from an apartment where police found bomb-making materials and handed it to a man in a yellow t-shirt outside a train station. (AP)

An embattled Michigan lawmaker who tried to cover up his extramarital affair with another socially conservative legislator will appear before a House panel Wednesday to defend himself. Republican Congressman Todd Courser plans to testify before the special six-member committee that's weighing the recommendation from the chamber's top lawyer that he be kicked out. Courser is asking for a censure, which would limit his work but let him stay in the position. (AP)

China says it'll attempt the first-ever landing of a lunar probe on the moon's far side. The Chinese Academy of Sciences' moon exploration department tells state broadcaster CCTV that the mission is planned for some time before 2020. It says the objective of the mission would be to study geological conditions on the moon's far side, also known as the dark side. Radio transmissions from Earth are unable to reach the far side. (AP)

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