SACO/BIDDEFORD – Ever After Mustang Rescue in Biddeford will bring a movie about the connection possible between humans and horses to southern Maine in an effort to educate the public. “The Mustang” has had limited showings in Maine, but will be screened at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at Cinemagic on Route 1 in Saco, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ken Kercheval, who played perennial punching bag Cliff Barnes to Larry Hagman’s scheming oil baron J.R. Ewing on the hit TV series “Dallas,” has died. He was 83. Kercheval died Sunday in the city of Clinton in his native Indiana, said Jeff Fisher, his agent. The cause of death was being […]

Former Maine lawmaker Robert Kenneth Lindell has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for what authorities have described as one of the worst cases of elder financial abuse they’ve seen in the state. According to the Maine Office of Securities, Lindell was sentenced Tuesday in Penobscot County Superior Court on 15 criminal counts including […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Measles in the U.S. has climbed to its highest level in 25 years, closing in on 700 cases this year in a resurgence largely attributed to misinformation that is turning parents against vaccines. “This is alarming,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccine expert. Not only is measles dangerous in […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin mother of seven pleaded guilty Monday to trying to plan terrorist attacks on behalf of the Islamic State group by distributing information online on how to make explosives and biological weapons. Waheba Issa Dais (dys) initially pleaded not guilty to two counts of providing material support to terrorists but prosecutors […]

BIDDEFORD — Those who desperately need the services of the In-A-Pinch Non-Food Pantry in Biddeford are praying that the nonprofit facility will find a new home soon and be able to remain open. For the past 23 years, In-A-Pinch has been housed at the Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center on South Street in Biddeford, but […]

ARUNDEL — After months of presentations and discussions, construction is underway for Raptor Falls. Led by Arundel residents Cliff and Bree Gajtkowski, Raptor Falls will be a dinosaur-themed miniature golf course on Route 1, located at the former location of longtime Arundel business, Fritz’s Tire. During Planning Board proceedings, the Gajtkowskis remained sure that, pending […]

ALFRED — The woman on the witness stand in York County Superior Court pulled her red cardigan tighter around her torso. Defense attorney Neal Weinstein was questioning her about her accusations that a former guard sexually assaulted her multiple times while she was incarcerated at a women’s transitional facility in Alfred. She had already spent […]

A former Maine man with a history of domestic violence charges is expected to plead guilty and be sentenced Friday in New Hampshire on the unusual charge of bigamy. Michael Middleton, 43, most recently of Old Orchard Beach, faces 3½ to 7 years in prison on the Class B felony charge, according to David Rotman, […]

AUGUSTA — On a narrow and mostly party-line vote, the Maine House on Tuesday approved, 78-59, a bill that removes religious and philosophical exemptions for public school vaccination requirements. The measure, which was largely opposed by Republicans, would require all school-age children in Maine to receive a mandatory series of vaccinations aimed at protecting against […]