PORTLAND — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited King Middle School on Tuesday afternoon to get a first-hand look at the school’s expeditionary learning model. Duncan’s visit to the Deering Avenue school was the final stop on a four-day “Courage in the Classroom” bus tour through eight states and 13 cities, highlighting the work […]

PORTLAND — Lock your doors, remove valuables from cars – and lock those, too – and don’t leave items unattended outside. That was the advice for about 60 residents of the Back Cove neighborhood who gathered at Cheverus High School Aug. 26 to hear from City Councilor Cheryl Leeman and police Sgt. Bob Doherty about an […]

No coalition casualties are reported in the pre-dawn attack by insurgents wearing U.S. Army uniforms.

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner. The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights. In a letter […]

Maryland and Iowa were eager to reap the economic benefits of Jack DeCoster’s large farms.

MINNEAPOLIS Justice Department signs offon United-Continental deal The Justice Department said Friday that it has no more antitrust concerns about the deal that would combine United and Continental into the world’s largest airline. To win that approval, the airlines had to open the door to Southwest Airlines at Continental’s hub in Newark, N.J., where it […]

BRUNSWICK — Curtis Memorial Library now has an automatic checkout system. The book-lending system, called Self-Check Selma, will allow patrons to check out books on their own, rather than waiting for a librarian to assist them. According to a press release from the library, Selma will not replace circulation staff at the library. The release […]

Motorists creep along Maine Street during the Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival on Saturday, Aug. 21, an event that doubled as an experiment to close the thoroughfare’s middle two lanes. Town officials wanted to see if the closure would make Maine Street more pedestrian friendly. The closure drew mixed responses on the Brunswick Police Department’s Facebook […]

Last week’s story about the South Portland City Council approving a collective bargaining agreement with public works employees should have said employees, not the Maine Labor Relations Board, decided to create a separate bargaining unit for bus drivers.

SOUTH PORTLAND — Motorists can expect to see extra patrols and checkpoints on the roads from now through Labor Day as police ramp up enforcement of drunken driving laws. The Police Department received a $5,000 grant from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety to increase patrols through Sept. 6. Lt. Frank Clark said South Portland […]