BIDDEFORD — Roger Chretien has seen a lot of changes during five decades of working in downtown Biddeford, but one thing has stayed the same. “Parking is always, always, always an issue,” he said while cutting a client’s hair in his barber shop near the corner of Main and Alfred streets. Parking has been an […]

Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon said Monday she would seek her party’s nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in 2020. Gideon, a Freeport Democrat serving her fourth term in the Maine House and second term as its speaker, was widely expected to take on the Republican incumbent but first faces a primary battle in […]

School officials and police in Kennebunk are investigating a video taken last week that appeared to show both underage drinking and the repeated use of a racial slur by one high school student. The incident occurred on the same week the RSU 21 board of directors settled a complaint with a former high school teacher who claimed […]

York officials on Monday placed town beaches under a cautionary advisory after a shark sighting off Long Sands Beach. A video of the shark taken by people fishing shows the large animal swimming at the surface near a boat, not far from the popular town beach. The fish was identified as a basking shark by […]

HONOLULU (AP) — The wife of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” reality TV star Duane “Dog” Chapman remained in a medically induced coma Monday so that she can be treated without suffering pain. Beth Chapman was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2017 after having a nagging cough checked out, family spokeswoman Mona Wood-Sword said. Chapman was […]

BIDDEFORD — Residents of the Charter Oaks Village manufactured housing park community in Arundel gathered for a special celebration at New Life Christian Fellowship Church in Biddeford on Saturday following a week which saw them collectively purchase the neighborhood they live in. The purchasing process and formation of the resident-owned cooperative was no small feat and […]

PARSONSFIELD — The pregnant victim of a Sunday night stabbing in Parsonsfield was taken overnight by a LifeFlight helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. York County Sheriff William L. King Jr. said the woman was stabbed during an altercation that was sparked by a social media disagreement. Arrested and charged with elevated aggravated […]

SACO — Sunshine, a slight breeze, artistic talent and customers eager to look and buy, all came together Saturday at Saco’s 49th annual Sidewalk Art Festival. Whether people were in the market for a unique piece of jewelry, pebble art, Maine photography, a custom bird house, a lobster rope door mat, or an exquisite hand-painted […]

BUXTON – A burglary suspect who had allegedly run from police on Friday was taken into custody by Buxton Police and Maine State Police at a property on Turkey Lane at around 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Police said they found Leonard “Rusty” Geisinger, 34, of Buxton hiding in a shed. He was wanted on a warrant […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The email went out from senior Environmental Protection Agency officials to Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, responding to questions she had about a funding matter. But the acknowledgment email the EPA got back a few hours later wasn’t from the ambassador. It was from her husband, coal magnate Joseph Craft, […]