CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — A wooden temple built as a memorial to the 17 victims of a Florida high school mass shooting was set ablaze Sunday in a symbolic gesture of healing. The “Temple of Time” public art installation was set afire at a ceremony hosted by the cities of Parkland and Coral Springs, […]

The Scarborough Board of Education has picked a veteran administrator as the new principal of Scarborough High School. Susan J. Ketch was recommended by the outgoing superintendent, Julie Kukenberger, who decided in November to ask that her contract not be renewed for the 2019-20 school year. Ketch was also recommended by an interview committee consisting of teachers, […]

Maine’s two U.S. senators say the state is receiving more than $23 million from the federal government for projects that help provide clean water. The money is from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. Republican Sen. Susan Collins and independent Sen. Angus King say the money will be […]

Like most aspiring broadcasters of his era, Mike Tirico remembers tuning into ABC every Saturday to watch Wide World of Sports, listening in rapt attention to the dulcet tones of Jim McKay. “It was Channel 7 back in New York,” Tirico recalled fondly, “and this was a time that was almost unfathomable — pre-cable, no […]

It was a bit chilly on Saturday at mid-morning but those at the beach were enjoying sunny skies and the promise of summer to come. With the Victoria Day weekend in all of Canada – and  a holiday called Journée nationale des patriotes  in Quebec, the weekend is the traditional first opportunity for those who […]

SACO — Two people were seriously injured in separate motorcycle crashes on Saturday, one in the northbound lane of the Maine Turnpike in Saco and another on Bonny Eagle Road in Hollis. Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said Diane Sprague, 42, of Saco sustained multiple injuries on Saturday morning when the motorcycle on which […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — They aimed, they tossed and some of them hit the mark in the game of corn hole that was just one of the activities at the Pine Tree Council’s Scouts BSA Spring Camporee this past weekend in Old Orchard Beach. Other activities the Scouts took part in included the standing long […]

ALFRED — Residents countywide have a chance to express their thoughts on the proposed York County government general fund budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 at a public hearing on Wednesday. The proposed budget, at slightly under $20.6 million, is up 2.42 percent from the current year. Of the total, an estimated […]

This year is expected to be one of the busiest on record for cruise ship visits to Maine ports. The first ship to visit the city was the Norwegian Dawn, a 2,224-passenger ship with 1,000 crew members, which docked in Portland last Thursday and is scheduled to return this Thursday. On Sunday, the Grandeur of […]

BEDFORD, Va. (AP) — Marguerite Cottrell remembers the summer day 75 years ago when a Western Union telegram was delivered to her family farm as her mother was hanging clothes on the line to dry. Her mother read it, sat down and wept. Cottrell’s older brother, John Reynolds, had been killed in the D-Day invasion […]