The combined Scarborough and Portland team took second place overall in the 2010 Explorer Tactical Challenge that featured 11 teams.

Deputies are seeking a New Gloucester man who allegedly led police on a high-speed chase that ended with the suspect’s car in a swamp.

Starting in July, Karen Allen won’t be allowed to smoke her Marlboro Lights in her apartment in Harbor Terrace — public housing that she sees as her own home.

The Portland Housing Authority has decided to make the 1,000 apartments it manages smoke-free. It is one of the last of Maine’s 24 public housing authorities to make the change.

The ban comes as a relief to many residents, who object to the smell and health effects of secondhand smoke. But tenants like Allen aren’t happy about it.

Records of Dr. John Perry, a Cumberland podiatrist who practices in Portland, are seized.