CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple is finally taking on Netflix with its own streaming television service and, uncharacteristically for the company, offering it at a bargain price — $5 a month beginning on Nov. 1. Walt Disney Co. is launching its own assault on Netflix the same month, for just $7. It may be sheer […]

ELLSWORTH — A Maine man convicted of raping, beating and strangling a former high school classmate is facing life in prison at his sentencing this week. In May, a jury found Jalique Keene guilty of murdering and raping 19-year-old Mikaela Conley, of Bar Harbor. The Bangor Daily News reports that prosecutors are seeking a life […]

Three teenagers have been charged with vandalizing the turf field at Scarborough High School in July. Scarborough police on Tuesday arrested 18-year-old Griffin MacVane of Windham and Robert Maynard, 18, of Westbrook in connection with the vandalism that occurred on July 2. A 17-year-old from Windham was issued a juvenile summons in connection with the […]

A York County Superior Court judge has ruled that the Ogunquit town manager did not violate the rights of the town fire chief when she fired him last year following an investigation into his job performance. Former fire chief Mark O’Brien filed an administrative appeal of the termination in York County Superior Court two months […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Bolton was in Mongolia. More than 1,200 miles away, President Donald Trump orchestrated an image for the world’s front pages by becoming the first U.S. president to set foot in North Korea, shaking hands with Kim Jong Un on the north side of the demilitarized zone. The distance was telling. Bolton, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. peace talks with the Taliban are now “dead,” President Donald Trump declared Monday, two days after he abruptly canceled a secret meeting he had arranged with Taliban and Afghan leaders aimed at ending America’s longest war. Trump’s remark to reporters at the White House suggested he sees no point in resuming […]

BIDDEFORD – On Tuesday, Biddeford City Council will discuss a controversial proposal to build a parking garage in the city’s mill district, near the downtown. The topic of the council workshop, which is open to the public, is a proposal from a private development team to build the garage on the site of a former […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH – Three candidates are vying for two Old Orchard Beach Town Council seats. Current Town Councilors Jay Kelley and Joseph Thornton, along with former Town Councilor Roxanne Frenette are vying for two seats on the Town Council. Both positions are two-year terms. Sally Beaty and Robert Lepauloue are competing for a single […]

ALFRED – Two suspects who were apprehended in Montana in May in connection with the armed robbery of a Limerick convenience store have been indicted by a York County grand jury. The grand jury last week handed up Class A felony robbery indictments against Connor McGlone, 22, of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and Puamae’ole “Pua” Degrandis, […]

Police arrested one of two suspects who allegedly confronted a Litchfield man with a “stun gun” in his home — in an apparent attempt to steal marijuana — and then fled into the woods early Sunday morning. Jay J. Labbe III, 26, of Lisbon, was charged with robbery, theft by unauthorized taking, refusing to submit […]