PORTLAND — A Sanford man charged with drug crimes who was the subject of an intense FBI manhunt last fall before he was apprehended at a Springvale convenience store is scheduled to change his pleas to guilty at U.S. District Court in Portland on Thursday afternoon. Joshua Patrick Weldon, 26, is charged with conspiracy to […]

BIDDEFORD — An upcoming mural project will add a splash of new art to the downtown that captures the new energy that’s surging through the city’s historic landscape. Biddeford is the youngest city in the state of Maine, with a median age of 35, and at 29, the downtown’s median age is even younger. The […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A vicious storm tore through the Kansas City area on Tuesday, spawning tornadoes that downed trees and power lines, damaged homes and injured at least a dozen people in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw tornado warnings as far east as New York City. Parts of Pennsylvania and […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — There’s a new regular rider on the Shuttlebus-ZOOM summer trolley, his name — Ted E Bear. He’s a large plush teddy bear, sporting a big smile and a shirt with a Shuttlebus logo, and he’ll be riding the trolley buses all summer. The trolley style buses bring passengers to downtown Old Orchard […]

VASSALBORO — Several police officers employed by a number of York County municipalities are among 63 officers who graduated Friday from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro. The officers spent 18 weeks in study and training, said Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland. Among the topics studied by the new officers were crime scene […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former “CBS Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley says he lost that job because he wouldn’t stop complaining to management about the hostile work environment for men and women. Pelley was forced out of the position in 2017 after six years on the job. The “60 Minutes” correspondent told CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday, however, […]

Maine game wardens on Tuesday found the body of a fisherman who had been missing since Thursday. The body of 66-year-old Clayton Burton of Blanchard, Maine, was discovered around 11:30 a.m. along the south shore of the Piscataquis River, between the towns of Shirley and Blanchard, said Mark Latti, spokesman for the Maine Department of […]

ALFRED — The family of a roofer who died in a fall while on the job in Portland has filed a $2.5 million wrongful death lawsuit against his former employer, alleging that the company owner discouraged the use of safety equipment that could have prevented the death. The suit was filed Friday in York County […]

LEBANON — A traffic stop for an alleged speeding violation has led to the arrest of three people — two of them on New Hampshire warrants charging unspecified drug crimes. The traffic stop by Maine State Police took place on Friday on Route 202 in Lebanon near the East Rochester, New Hampshire, border. Troopers said […]