DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia does not want war but will not hesitate to defend itself against Iran, a top Saudi diplomat said Sunday amid heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf after attacks on the kingdom’s energy sector. Adel al-Jubeir, the minister of state for foreign affairs, spoke a week after four […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scorched by a dragon, overrun by enemy soldiers and its buildings reduced to rubble, King’s Landing, the capital city in “Game of Thrones,” seems destroyed for good. But history suggests that the city could rise again. Despite the horrifying death and destruction, with enough time, King’s Landing could even reclaim its glory […]

SACO  — “Ideally, I’d like to find a family. Nice, with good local values, and excited about Garside’s.” Those were the hopes of Eric Pendleton in March of last year when he spoke about whom he would ideally want to sell his family business, Garside’s Ice Cream on Ferry Road. Now, 14 months later, the […]

DENMARK — For Ramona and Narciso Torres, the grief is heaviest each year between April 1, their son’s birthday, and May 21, the day he disappeared. In 1999, at the end of his junior year of college, 21-year-old Angel Torres hopped a bus from Massachusetts to Biddeford to visit friends and, police later learned, to […]

BIDDEFORD — The city of Biddeford is partnering with We Compost It! to provide a free composting program at the Recycling Center for all Biddeford residents. To participate, residents can collect food waste at home and dump it in the compost collection bins at the Recycling Center during regular operating hours. All organic food scraps, […]

WELLS  — The following people were arrested or issued a summons by Wells Police from May 7 to May 12: • Stephen Brewer, 67, of Old Orchard Beach, was issued a summons for misuse of the emergency system 911 following a 911 phone call that he made on May 6. He is scheduled to appear at York […]

Jay Cote and Michael Lynch spent their childhood summers in Astrosphere heaven at Funtown. They would bike to the Saco park every day with season passes in hand to ride the dark-light scrambler as often as summer heat and long lines allowed. They would later work the Astrosphere, initiating new generations to this beloved rite […]

ROCKLAND — The 37-year-old South Thomaston woman accused of beating and strangling 83-year-old Helen Carver inside her home in February had earlier asked someone if they were willing to kill a person. This development was detailed in a search warrant issued last month to get information from Verizon on two cellphones seized from Sarah Richards and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters have responded to the scene of digital billboard on fire in Times Square. Flames stated to shoot out of the LED billboard just after 3 p.m. Saturday. The Fire Department says no injuries have been reported and there was no damage to the building the sign is attached to. A […]

BUXTON — Police Officers in Buxton have received information about possible scam phone calls being made to residents of the area. The number being used comes back to Ocean City, Maryland, police say. If you receive a phone call from 1-410-213-3004, and they want information on behalf of the Social Security Administration, it is a […]