WINDSOR, England (AP) — The improbable love story between an American actress and a British royal took the best of all possible turns Monday with the arrival of a healthy baby boy. The as-yet-unnamed baby arrived less than a year after Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle in a spectacular televised event on the grounds of […]

The Maine Lottery on Monday singled out three stores, including two in southern Maine, for being top sellers of lottery tickets in Maine. Those stores paid more than $2.1 million in lottery ticket prize money to their customers, according to a news release issued by the state agency. Hannaford in Biddeford, Broadway Variety in South […]

PITTSFIELD — A 90-year-old man was killed Monday afternoon after the car he was driving veered off the road and struck a tree on U.S. Route 2, police said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was driving a 2014 Cadillac, said Pittsfield Police Chief Pete Bickmore. He was traveling east on Route 2 […]

Affordable housing advocates are backing a measure in the State House to give up to $80 million in tax incentives to double the number of low-income housing units built in Maine over the next four years. The bill would give developers access to refundable tax credits to finance the construction of  low-income housing. The bill, […]

PORTLAND — A nonprofit shelter in Texas recently informed city officials that it was buying bus tickets to Portland for some asylum seekers who entered the U.S. at the Mexican border. “I’m so sorry,” Jennifer Long, executive director of La Casa Marianella in Austin, Texas, wrote to a Portland official in an email about the […]

BIDDEFORD  — A Hollis man has dropped claims he filed against the city of Biddeford and its police chief as part of an ongoing lawsuit alleging he was sexually abused by a former city police officer decades ago. Bertrand Girard alleged in his lawsuit that former Biddeford police officer Stephen Dodd sexually assaulted him from 1977 to […]

BIDDEFORD — The cast of “Calendar Girls” will be baring it all (or almost all) at City Theater in Biddeford for the next three weekends. “Calendar Girls,” a comedy by Tim Firth, is based on the true story of a group of ordinary women who did something extraordinary. They decided to appear in a nude calendar […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A baby sea lion wandered onto a busy highway in South San Francisco last week, stopping vehicles and alarming motorists before officials whisked it away. SFGATE reports California Highway Patrol received the call around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Motorists had tried to shoo the sea lion to safer ground, with one man getting out […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee is poised to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress — the opening salvo in what could be a lengthy, acrimonious court battle between House Democrats and President Donald Trump’s administration over special counselRobert Mueller’s report . House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler scheduled a Wednesday vote to […]