SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom overruled a parole board’s decision to free Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten on Monday, marking the third time a governor has stopped the release of the youngest member of Manson’s murderous cult. Van Houten, 69, is still a threat, Newsom said, though she has spent nearly […]

LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump arrived in Britain on Monday for a largely ceremonial visit meant to strengthen ties between the two nations, but the trip was immediately at risk of being overshadowed by Brexit turmoil and a political feud with London’s mayor. Even before Air Force One touched down north of London, Trump […]

SKOWHEGAN — Donna Almeida Carter, 63, of Biddeford has spent the past two years wondering what happened to her missing daughter. The last known sighting of Tina Stadig, 40, occurred on May 28, 2017. Since then, there have been searches for her remains led by the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit, Skowhegan police and […]

More than 250 potential jurors will line up in the Cumberland County Courthouse on Monday for the upcoming trial of the man accused of killing a Somerset County sheriff’s deputy last year. The intense media coverage of the shooting and the manhunt that followed poses a clear challenge for attorneys who hope to find a […]

AUGUSTA — Lawmakers negotiating the state’s next two-year budget huddled behind closed doors with one another and Gov. Janet Mills late last week as they worked to strike a deal on her $8 billion spending package. Members of both the Democratic majority and the Republican minority said they believed an agreement could be reached well […]

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — Lawyers for Kevin Spacey are returning to court in the case accusing the former “House of Cards” star of groping a young man at a bar on the island of Nantucket. A pretrial hearing is scheduled in the Nantucket District Court on Monday. Authorities say the assault happened in 2016 at […]

A Wiscasset woman is facing multiple charges after Thomaston police said her vehicle nearly struck an officer whose cruiser was parked beside the road while she was being chased by a sergeant from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. The Thomaston Police Department said in a post on its Facebook page that Hannah Hewes, 21, was […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Pentagon has told the White House to stop politicizing the military, amid a furor over a Trump administration order to have the Navy ship named for the late U.S. Sen. John McCain hidden from view during President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Japan. Trump’s top aide scoffed at the idea that […]

PORTLAND — Asking God to “pour out the grace of his blessing on this, his servant,”  Roman Catholic Bishop Robert P. Deeley of the Diocese of Portland ordained Biddeford native and former St, James School student Alex Boucher to the transitional diaconate in a Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland on […]