BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Horror author Stephen King’s rock ‘n’ roll radio station is going to continue rocking around the clock and into the new year.

Two businessmen purchased WKIT-FM from the best-selling writer after he announced that the station and two others would go silent after New Year’s Eve. The buyers are the Maine-based duo Greg Hawes and Jeff Solari, who formed Rock Lobster Radio Group to run the station.

“WKIT is the most legendary station in the region. It has tremendous history. We couldn’t let it die,” they said in a statement.

King is a lifelong rocker and performed with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band that featured literary icons performing for charity. He announced earlier this month that at age 77 he thought it was time to say good-bye to the radio stations.

“I’m sorry as hell to be closing down WKIT and its sister stations,” King posted earlier this month on social media. “I held off the suits for as long as I could.”

King’s foray into radio began in 1983 with the purchase of a radio station that was rebranded WZON in a nod to his book, “The Dead Zone.” That station closed before being acquired again by King in 1990.

A suspect shot up a South Portland apartment building on Sunday night.

The suspect fired several bullets at the residence on Wainwright Circle West in Redbank Village just after 11 p.m., according to Shara Dee, a spokesperson for the city.

Officers found that several bullets penetrated the front door and had become embedded in the living room wall, Dee said Monday.

Police found several shell casings in the street outside the building.

No one was injured in the shooting.

No arrests have been made, but police identified a suspect vehicle, a light-colored four-door hatchback.

Anyone with information about the shooting can contact Detective Lt. Christopher Todd at 207-799-511, ext. 7448, or by email at christo@southportland.gov. An anonymous tip can be left at 207-347-4100.

No additional information is being released.

This comes just days after another unknown suspect fired more than a dozen bullets into a Cumberland Avenue apartment building in Portland. When police arrived early Thursday morning, they discovered numerous damaged windows and bullet holes in several apartments and shell casings in nearby Peppermint Park.

Another shooting was reported in Portland about 11:30 p.m. Sunday on Washington Avenue, where windows were shot out on a Ford Expedition. Shell casings were found on nearby Maplewood Street.

Maine’s Thomas Freel skates after Bentley’s Ethan Leyh, who gained control of the puck during the Black Bears’ 4-2 loss Sunday at Cross Insurance Arena in Portland. Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald

Maine Trust for Local News sports columnist Travis Lazarczyk is a voter in the U.S. College Hockey Online men’s poll. Each week he will share his top 20 votes, as well as hit on a few items of interest in the sport.

1. Michigan State

2. Boston College

3. Minnesota

4. Western Michigan

5. Providence

6. Colorado College

7. Maine

8. Denver

9. Minnesota State

10. UMass Lowell

11. North Dakota

12. St. Cloud State

13. Michigan

14. Ohio State

15. Cornell

16. Boston University

17. Quinnipiac

18. Arizona State

19. Dartmouth

20. UNH

What to do about exhibition games? That’s the question after a lot of teams returned from the break by playing either a Canadian university team, like UMass Lowell (a 2-0 win over Simon Fraser), the U.S. national development team, like Arizona State (4-3 and 1-0 wins for the Sun Devils), or a talented club team, like Colorado College and Denver did in playing UNLV. Colorado College beat UNLV, 8-0. Denver, on the other hand, earned a tie against UNLV but lost the shootout. The Pioneers did rally from a 5-1 deficit after two periods to salvage the tie, but still, Colorado College beat the same team by eight goals. Is it comparing apples to apples or apples to hockey pucks? The games don’t really count, but at the same time they count. I went with my gut and slid Colorado College up to No. 6 and Denver down to No. 8. Plenty of hockey left to sort it all out. In the case of Clarkson, which took a 5-1 loss to Concordia of Quebec, I took the Golden Knights out of the No. 20 spot and replaced them with UNH, which earned a 7-4 win over RPI, improving the Wildcats to 4-0-1 since a loss to Maine on Nov. 22.

Providence is on a roll. The Friars picked up wins over Northeastern and Dartmouth over the weekend to win the Ledyard Classic at Dartmouth, a tournament Maine won last season. Those victories improved Providence’s win streak to seven. With Maine’s loss to Bentley, it was an easy call to jump the Friars up to No. 5 on my ballot, ahead of the Black Bears. Providence is off until facing city rival Brown on Jan. 7, followed by a home-and-home against Boston College on Jan. 17-18.

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