Portland police say they caught a man as he was committing a burglary at the Riverside Golf Course early Saturday morning. Officers responded to an alarm at the golf course on Riverside Street around 4 a.m., Lt. Robert Doherty said. Police, with the assistance of a K9 officer named Dozer, tracked Joseph Earles, 53, of […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it sought to end an Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 that the Trump administration violated federal […]

SANFORD — Capt. Daniel Tranchemontagne was a math teacher, a wrestling coach and a soldier who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He earned a bronze star for his work, serving as a staff officer with the 368th Engineer Combat Battalion in Kuwait. Tranchemontagne, 32, died of cancer on May 30, 2004, at Walter Reed Medical […]

SANFORD — For a 13-year-old, Kalyvn Nedzbala of Alfred has a keen understanding of what makes our country thrive and can express his patriotic thoughts and ideas meaningfully. Nedzbala, a seventh-grader at Massabesic Middle School, has been announced as the 2019 winner of the Maine Elks Essay Contest which featured the theme “What Makes You […]

LIMERICK — The armed man who held up the Limerick Village Variety earlier this week remained at large on Friday, and York County Sheriff William L. King Jr. said the agency is still soliciting input from the public. The man walked into the store at 32 Main St, on Monday at about 9:20 a.m., took […]

AUBURN — Steven H. Downs is no longer fighting extradition to Alaska. Downs, 44, of 132 Hillcrest St. in Auburn, is accused of raping and killing a woman in Fairbanks in 1993. He was a college student there at the time. On Thursday morning in Androscoggin County Superior Court, Downs withdrew his petition contesting extradition. His lawyer, James […]

A crash caused a traffic backup on the Maine Turnpike in Portland on Friday morning when a car became stuck under a tractor-trailer. The crash was reported about 10:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes, and all lanes were reopened by 11:45 a.m. The driver of the car suffered minor injuries and the truck driver was […]

ELLSWORTH — Police arrested a Newport woman and charged her with theft on May 16 after she allegedly embezzled $100,000 from the Hancock County Planning Commission (HCPC), according to a press release from the Ellsworth Police Department. Sheri G. Walsh, 55, a former HCPC employee who has served various roles at the nonprofit, including interim […]

A  flag based on Maine’s original 1901 flag is the front-runner to be the state’s official bicentennial flag. More than 6,500 people took part in an online survey for the bicentennial flag and 59 percent of them chose the design featuring a pine tree against a field of blue to represent the sky and lighter […]