CAPE ELIZABETH — About 1 million people visit Fort Williams Park every year, and now most of them will have to pay to park in prime spots closest to Portland Head Light and scenic paths overlooking Casco Bay during the park’s busy season. Driven by increased tourism and rising maintenance costs, the Town Council decided […]

YORK — A Florida man was arrested early Monday morning after he broke into a house in York and crawled into bed with an 11-year-old girl, according to York police. York dispatchers received a 911 call at 2:30 a.m. reporting an unknown man had entered a home on Orchard Farms Road. The girl who called […]

Maine has joined a lawsuit that accuses the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers of conspiring to artificially inflate and manipulate prices for their products. The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Connecticut, names 16 companies and 15 individual senior executives. It covers more than 100 generic drugs that reportedly account for billions of dollars […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The very name “Doris Day,” cheerful as a sunrise on a studio lot, was an invention. The beloved singer and actress, who died Monday at 97 , was a contemporary of Marilyn Monroe but seemed to exist in a lost and parallel world of sexless sex comedies and the carefree ways of “Que […]

LIMERICK — York County Sheriff’s Office deputies are continuing to look for the robber who held up Limerick Village Variety around 9:20 a. m. on Monday. They’re asking the public to call them if they recognize the man in photos taken from video surveillance or have other information about the crime. York County Sheriff William […]

True story:  A woman loses her husband to leukemia. Her friends launch a fundraiser to buy a sofa for the hospital’s waiting room in his memory. They hope to raise about $1,000. They actually raise millions — for the sofa, a hospital wing, and ongoing leukemia and lymphoma research. That story is immortalized by playwright Tim Firth in […]

ALFRED — Voters will have the chance to hear from municipal candidates running for selectman, RSU 57 director, the library board of trustees and Alfred Water District trustees at a candidates night May 29, ahead of the June 11 election. Three candidates, including incumbent Glenn ”Doc” Dochtermann are vying for one, three-year term on the […]

A line worker was hospitalized after suffering an electrical shock while working on power lines in Gorham on Monday afternoon, according to the town’s fire chief. The worker was injured or experienced a medical problem while working in a bucket truck at the intersection of Moser Road and Old Canal Way in Gorham, said Catharine […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter broke his hip Monday at his south Georgia home when he fell while leaving to go turkey hunting, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said. The 94-year-old former president was treated in Americus, Georgia, near his home in Plains, and was recovering comfortably after successful surgery, spokeswoman, […]