LEBANON — It’s been 178 days since James Dobson was struck and killed by a motorist in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, while he was cycling across the country on a fundraising ride. He was 32. For his mother, it’s as if the accident happened yesterday. Cindy Dobson broke down in tears this week recalling his laughter, adventurous […]

SANFORD — The city has won a $300,000 grant to spruce up the city-owned parking lot at Mid-Town Mall, in downtown Sanford. Officials received word earlier this week that an application made earlier this year for a $300,000 Public Infrastructure grant under the Community Development Block Grant program has been approved. CDBG funds are federal […]

Police in Westbrook located a 15-year-old girl Friday who hadn’t been seen since Monday afternoon. Mackenzie Ross had last been seen around 1:45 p.m. Monday, Westbrook police said. They did not believe that Ross was in any danger or that anything criminal has occurred, but her parents wanted her to return home safely, Westbrook Police […]

The Bowdoinham teenager who is accused of killing his grandmother last year will be tried as an adult. Dominic Sylvester, now 18, is charged with depraved indifference murder in the 2018 death of Beulah “Marie” Sylvester. He was just shy of 17 years old when the 55-year-old woman was found unconscious inside the mobile home […]

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Jim Fowler, a naturalist who rose to fame on the long-running television program “Wild Kingdom” and who famously bantered with Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show,” has died. He was 89. Fowler died peacefully Wednesday at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut, surrounded by family, said Jennifer Whitney, a spokeswoman for Mutual […]

SPRINGVALE — A “teaching Mass” to offer explanations about what is happening during the different sections of a Catholic Mass will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 13 at Notre Dame Church, 10 Payne St. in Springvale. The teaching Mass will be an actual Mass, celebrated by The Rev. Jack Dickinson, judicial vicar for […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A German con artist who was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for swindling banks, hotels and wealthy New Yorkers says she’s not sorry for anything she did. “The thing is, I’m not sorry,” Anna Sorokin told The New York Times in a jailhouse interview Friday. “I’d be lying to you […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — As the 19-year-old college student sped away in his 2012 Honda Civic, he dialed 911 and said: “I just shot up a synagogue.” He told the dispatcher that he thought he had killed some people and that he did it “because Jewish people are destroying the white race.” The chilling account […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man charged with bludgeoning and strangling to death a Hollywood television director more than three decades ago was arrested Thursday in North Carolina after police said DNA and a confession linked him to the crime. Edwin Hiatt was arrested in Burke County for the 1985 death of Barry Crane in […]