YORK COUNTY — Area real estate agents say continued tight inventory and slower than usual purchases in January are factors that resulted in a double-digit decrease in York County housing sales in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2018. Figures released last week by the Maine Association of Realtors […]

LEWISTON — Wearing gloves, a hairnet, safety vest, glasses and ear protection, Gov. Janet Mills toured the local Boston Brands of Maine plant Wednesday, watching 750-milliliter bottles of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky zip through a labeler and drop 12 at a time into waiting boxes printed, “Tastes like Heaven, burns like Hell.” “It seems just like […]

BIDDEFORD — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services will close its Biddeford office at 208 Graham St. because of the poor condition of the building caused by frequent flooding. Ninety-five employees worked out of the Biddeford office, and 65 were temporarily reassigned to other offices in South Portland and Sanford. Maine DHHS “will […]

Critical highway work will be canceled this year as Maine’s transportation agency is priced out of a superheated construction market. The Department of Transportation will cut tens of millions of dollars in projects from its 2019 plan for roadway and bridge work as it struggles with bids from private contractors that are coming in far […]

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Actor Rick Schroder has been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence for the second time in a month. Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Juanita Navarro says deputies were called to Schroder’s home near Malibu early Wednesday and saw evidence of a fight between Schroder and a woman whose name was not […]

SANFORD – The following individuals were arrested or charged by Sanford Police from April 18 to April 29: • Craig J. Paradis, 41, Sanford, was issued a summons charging he left the scene of a property damage accident on School Street. • Corey Michael Dunbar, 27, Sanford, was arrested on a warrant on School Street. […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — David Belnap stood on his North Carolina college campus aching from the latest U.S. school shooting as he held a candle and wore a homemade T-shirt with “Riley Howell is a hero” written on the back. Howell died in his classroom Tuesday at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, charging and tackling […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller expressed frustration to Attorney General William Barr last month about how the findings of his Russia investigation were being portrayed, saying he worried that a letter summarizing the main conclusions of the probe lacked the necessary context and was creating public confusion about his team’s work, a Justice […]