BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Snow is still covering parts of the region but that hasn't stopped people from making plans for the summer season.

Companies and businesses that thrive on tourism took part in the first ever Maine Travel and Adventure Expo. More than 40 vendors from throughout the northeast took part, including a few from parts of Canada. While many were looking to entice travelers to far off locations, others wanted to convince them to vacation right here in Maine.

Business leaders from Downeast Maine say many tourists vacationed there last year. They say several visitors came from overseas looking to take advantage of the beauty that coastal Maine has to offer.  

"Of course Acadia National Park," said Micki Sumpter, who is executive director for the Ellsworth Chamber of Commerce, "so when you have something like that, they come for that."

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Police in Bangor are asking for the public's help in connection with a morning robbery.

It happened about 4:45 a.m. Monday morning at the Big Apple convenience store on State Street.

The woman working at the time said she noticed a man smoking a cigarette outside the store. She said he then covered his face with a bandana, walked inside, showed a gun and demanded money.

"We're working on some leads as far as who it is, we're working on some evidence we've collected," said Bangor Police Sgt. Paul Edwards. "Hopefully, we'll have a suspect name."

The suspect is described as a white man with very dark eyebrows and hair.

He may be in his late teens with scruffy facial hair.

He was wearing a dark, puffy, hooded ski jacket with a dark grey hooded sweatshirt underneath and also had on dark pants.

ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Forty-three years ago one of the most well-known civil rights leaders was assassinated.

Monday, workers, students and supporters remembered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Food AND Medicine, the Eastern Maine Labor  ouncil and other labor groups gathered at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Memorial Plaza at the University of Maine for a rally.

The "We Are One Rally for Human Dignity" sought to commemorate Dr. King and his work, while also opposing action across the nation that could threaten collective bargaining and worker rights.

Pastor Mark Doty said Dr. King's message of civil rights is still relevant today.