AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s driver’s licenses and identification cards will have a new look when residents do their next renewals. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announced the change Monday. He says the new design will feature an outline of the state and picture of a white pine cone and tassel, which is the state tree […]

Federal prosecutors charged a Burlington woman with mailing a threatening letter containing a white powder to the Bangor home of Sen. Susan Collins. Suzanne E. Muscara, 37, faces one count of mailing a threatening communication, and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted. She is expected to make her […]

AUGUSTA — A bipartisan trio of state lawmakers are hoping to pass legislation that would allow terminally ill patients in Maine to end their own lives with a fatal dose of medication. Rep. Patricia Hymanson, D-York, the House Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, a neurologist and the sponsor of the bill, said […]

LAS VEGAS — Declaring “our country is full,” President Donald Trump on Friday insisted the U.S. immigration system was overburdened and illegal crossings must be stopped as he inspected a refurbished section of fencing at the Mexican border. Trump, making a renewed push for border security as a central campaign issue for his 2020 re-election, […]

SACO — A crash involving multiple vehicles hampered the morning commute on the Maine Turnpike near Saco on Monday morning. According to State Police, several vehicles collided on the Maine Turnpike at mile 34 in Saco, including a tractor-trailer truck. The northbound lanes of the turnpike were shut down, but were reopened to traffic an […]

BIDDEFORD — Human brains, cow eyeballs and falling eggs were among the attractions at the sixth annual Brain Fair at the University of New England on Friday. Several hundred people, many of them families, turned out for the free event at the Biddeford campus’s Harold Alfond Forum that was especially entertaining to children who got […]

BIDDEFORD — On April 2, Biddeford City Council approved several measures that provide another step closer toward building a parking garage in the city center. The council approved going forward with designing the second phase of the garage, proceeding with the permitting process, as well as investigating public/private financing of the garage that would make […]

SACO — Artists and crafters have reached out to the Journal Tribune after the unanticipated abundance of driftwood found at Bayview Beach recently, and the Journal Tribune would like to showcase some of the art in an online photo gallery.The small pieces of beach wood that spanned as far as the eye could see southward […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on Sunday amid President Donald Trump’s growing frustration and bitterness over the number of Central American families crossing the southern border. Trump announced on Sunday in a tweet that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan would be taking over as acting head of the […]

The U.S. Postal Service will release a new Forever stamp honoring President George H.W. Bush, who died last year. The stamp art is a portrait of the 41st president by artist Michael J. Deas, based on a 1997 photograph, the postal service said in a news release. Bush died Nov. 30 at the age of […]