BIDDEFORD — Sticking to a schedule approved by the council in September of last year, rates to park downtown in Biddeford were increased earlier this month. According to City Manager James Bennett, the rates are not technically an increase, but rather the end of a six-month grace period formulated to allow residents the chance to […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tim Conway, the impish second banana to Carol Burnett who won four Emmy Awards on her TV variety show, starred aboard “McHale’s Navy” and later voiced the role of Barnacle Boy for “Spongebob Squarepants,” has died. He was 85. Conway died Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles care facility, according to […]

More than 250 people gathered in Portland on Tuesday to protest a judge’s decision to set cash bail for a man charged with murder. In the cold rain, Asli Muse wept as she spoke into a megaphone about her younger brother, who was shot and killed two months ago this week. “Law enforcement and prosecutors […]

AUGUSTA — Creating a public power authority in Maine could lower rates and improve the reliability of electric service, or it could plunge the state into an unknown and risky undertaking and costly litigation, a legislative committee was told Tuesday. The idea of Maine buying the state’s two investor-owned utilities – Central Maine Power and […]

AUGUSTA — Gov. Janet Mills on Tuesday unveiled amendments to her two-year, $8 billion budget proposal that would significantly boost the state’s child protective services system, add treatment and prevention funding for the opioid crisis and further invest in mental health services. “This change package prioritizes pressing investments needed to protect children’s safety, to repair crumbling schools, […]

AUGUSTA — The Maine Senate voted 18-17 Tuesday to remove religious exemptions from the state’s school vaccination law. The vote followed an impassioned debate by opponents to the shift, who said the law would send thousands of families packing while doing little to improve public health or protect children from preventable diseases. The mostly party-line […]

BIDDEFORD — The following individuals were arrested or issued a summons by Biddeford Police from May 10 to May 13: • Bernard A. Larose, 59, of Biddeford, was issued a summons for land development regulations (timber harvesting). • Reginald Gilbert, 65, of Biddeford, was arrested for violating a condition of release. • Antonio F. Palestini, […]

ARUNDEL — The Town of Arundel will conduct a municipal election and the RSU 21 Referendum on Tuesday, June 11 at the Arundel Central Fire Station on the Limerick Road. Polls will be open for the election from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., said Emily J. Nedeau, Arundel Town Clerk/Registrar. The municipal will elect two town selectmen, […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two sightseeing planes that crashed in Alaska collided at about the 3,300-foot (1,006-meter) level, the National Transportation Safety Board announced shortly after an elite team arrived Tuesday from Washington, D.C., to investigate the crash. The two planes collided in mid-air Monday, killing six people, the Coast Guard said. The larger plane, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is set to hold a hearing Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s attempt to block a House subpoena seeking his financial records. Trump and his business organization sued the Democratic chairman of the House oversight committee to block the subpoena. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, said the subpoena […]