OLD ORCHARD BEACH — The Old Orchard Beach Police Department has released the names of individuals arrested or issued a summons from April 1 to April 14. • Jeffrey Stevens, 30, of West Kennebunk, was arrested and charged with robbery. • Samuel Winslow, 22, of Portland, was issued a summons for failure to register a […]

RUMFORD — Under a gray sky and cold mist, people added tokens and flowers to a makeshift memorial for Jayce Holt. One woman brought a framed photo of the 6-year-old boy and his mother. A rock secured a piece of notebook paper with a child’s uncertain handwriting: “I miss you.” Jayce died Wednesday afternoon after […]

BIDDEFORD — The following individuals were arrested or issued a summons by Biddeford Police from April 23 to April 29: • Stanley G. Dennison, 50, of Saco, was issued a summons for criminal trespass. • Kathleen E. Lee, 35, of Biddeford, was issued a summons for violating a condition of release and theft by unauthorized […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a squat office building not far from downtown, Esperanza Guevara is getting ready to look for people who might not want to be found. And her job could get a lot harder. The immigrant-rights activist is leading a drive to reach tens of thousands of people who entered the U.S. […]

KENNEBUNK — Three people, all of North Yarmouth, were taken to a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, hospital for treatment after their vehicle veered off the Maine Turnpike in Kennebunk on Thursday and struck a tree. Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said the noon time crash took place in the southbound lane when a Subaru Outback […]

LYMAN – A small rural fire department is breaking gender norms. Goodwins Mills Fire Department serves the towns of Dayton and Lyman, with populations just under 2,000 and 4,400, respectively. The fire department is 33 percent female, according to Chief Roger Hooper, with 50 percent of full-time employees women and 100 percent of live-in college […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at the special counsel’s “snitty” complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report. Testifying for the first time since releasing Mueller’s report, Barr faced […]

A 6-year-old boy was struck and killed by a school bus in Rumford on Wednesday afternoon after falling off his bicycle in an intersection two blocks from his school. Western Foothills School District officials confirmed the boy was a first-grader at Rumford Elementary School. “Our entire RSU #10 community is grieving this loss,” the district […]

HOLLIS — Maine State Police say a suspect who allegedly took nearly $70,000 from a Hollis resident to build a house and then left the state before the job was complete has been arrested in Louisiana. Richard Shirey, 46, of Grand Isle was arrested by Louisiana State Police on Wednesday as a fugitive from justice. […]

WATERBORO — What are the perceptions of young people toward law enforcement in 2019? Could a glimpse at how officers handle situations from start to finish — rather than a snippet on social media that might not show the entire picture — help students better understand why an officer approached a situation in a particular […]