VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A longtime city employee opened fire in a municipal building in Virginia Beach, killing 12 people on three floors and sending terrified co-workers scrambling for cover before police shot and killed him following a “long gunbattle,” authorities said. Four other people were wounded in Friday’s shooting, including a police officer […]

SACO — Officials say a threat made by a student to Thornton Academy on Wednesday night was not credible and the school community was not at risk. Thornton Academy is a private school at 438 Main St. in Saco that serves both publicly and privately funded students in grades six through twelve. Thornton Academy Headmaster […]

Maine State Spelling Bee champion Sebastian Shields, a seventh-grader at Saco Middle School, made it to the third round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but his name was not on the National Spelling Bee’s list of 50 spellers who advanced to Thursday morning’s final round. Sixteen spellers from the group of 50 were to appear […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still isn’t ready to impeach President Donald Trump. Even after special counsel Robert Mueller essentially called on Congress to pick up where his investigation left off, Pelosi isn’t budging. Scores of her Democratic lawmakers do want to start impeachment proceedings. Outside groups say it’s time. But Pelosi is […]

BIDDEFORD — Move over Monet and Picasso, there’s a new artistic talent emerging in Biddeford and his name is John Gatchalian. As a confirmation of his creative talent and with hundreds of his classmates cheering for him during a school assembly, Gatchalian, a seventh-grader at Biddeford Middle School, was honored Thursday as the 2019 Maine […]

AUGUSTA — The Maine House gave initial approval Thursday to a bill that would ban single-use plastic shopping bags statewide. The legislation, which gained bipartisan support in a 91-52 vote, will next head to the Senate for additional votes. The bill requires most large retailers, including grocers, to replace single-use plastic bags with paper and […]

BIDDEFORD — Denny’s fans will have to wait a little longer to order a Grand Slam breakfast, as plans to open the restaurant have been delayed. Plans have been in the works for more than six months to open a Denny’s restaurant at 45 Boulder Way. The building is the site of a former Ruby […]

ALFRED — An Acton woman who pleaded guilty last year to stabbing her ex-husband to death in  2017 is scheduled to appear before a judge on Monday to ask to be allowed to withdraw the guilty plea. Kandee Weyland Collind, 48, had pleaded guilty in August to the murder of Scott Weyland in his driveway […]

SANFORD — Voters will head to the polls in Sanford on Tuesday, June 11 for a validation vote on the school budget for the upcoming fiscal year — and to also decide if they wish to continue with the annual school vote. Currently, the school budget is approved by the School Committee and forwarded to […]