AUGUSTA — The Legislature has approved a bill to require that students are fed a meal whether or not they are able to pay. The bill was crafted to stop “food shaming,” according to supporters. It’s headed to Democratic Gov. Janet Mills for signature. The House Democratic Office says the bill “prohibits punishing, openly identifying […]

ROCKLAND — A 56-year-old South Thomaston man was arrested Thursday after police say he was driving a pickup truck stolen five days earlier from outside a Rockland restaurant. And the district attorney’s office is investigating whether the suspect brought the stolen vehicle to court earlier in the day when he appeared for a hearing on unrelated […]

YORK COUNTY — Anna M. Mountain of Lebanon has won $100,000 playing Maine Lottery’s Right on the Money scratch-off game. She purchased the winning ticket at Jacksons Corner Store in Lyman. The odds of Mountain winning the highest instant prize in the game was 1 in 220,000. A total of 1.3 million tickets for the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — “Avengers: Endgame” is crushing the competition by setting multiple records at the box office a day after its release. The Walt Disney Co. says domestically the film opened Friday with a record $156.7 million (including Thursday previews), besting “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($119 million in 2015, though it played on […]

SPRINGVALE — Seaglass Performing Arts Chorale, conducted by Artistic Director and Founder Jean Strazdes, will be performing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at the new Sanford Performing Arts Center at Sanford High School at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28. The performance will be one of the premiere concerts at the new center and is in celebration of Seaglass […]

POWAY, Calif. (AP) — A 19-year-old gunman opened fire inside a synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of a major Jewish holiday, killing a woman and wounding the rabbi and two others Saturday, authorities said. President Donald Trump and other elected officials decried what they called an anti-Semitic attack exactly six […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 1,000 students and staff members at two Los Angeles universities were quarantined on campus or sent home this week in one of the most sweeping efforts yet by public health authorities to contain the spread of measles in the U.S., where cases have reached a 25-year high . By Friday afternoon, […]

SKOWHEGAN  — The School Administrative District 54 board of directors voted Thursday night to reject placing a nonbinding advisory or survey on the June referendum ballot on use of the “Indians” nickname, school imagery and mascot. The vote was 14-6. It came quickly on the heels of a 14-9 board vote to “respectfully retire” the nickname “Indians” for […]

SCARBOROUGH — A Massachusetts company has signed an agreement to design a sports complex for a proposed village center that’s being developed near the racetrack at Scarborough Downs. The Edge Sports Group, a company specializing in recreational properties, has signed a letter of intent with the developers of The Downs, a $621 million residential, commercial […]

Presque Isle police Friday were asking the public’s help in finding two boys who may have been taken from Maine against their will. According to a post on the department’s Facebook page, police have “reason to believe” that Joel Strother II, 12, and Carter Strother III, 10, were taken from their home and could be […]