BIDDEFORD — The Pretty Girls — Ingrid Ayer-Richardson, Susan Mathews, and Deana Gurney — took to the stage at Biddeford’s Elements café on Friday night, performing Pretty Girls Sing Soprano. With mixed backgrounds in folk, rock, and piano, the Girls provided patrons with a nostalgic connection to tunes from Tom Petty to Stevie Wonder, and […]

LONDON (AP) — With Britain racing toward a chaotic exit from the European Union within days, Prime Minister Theresa May veered away from the cliff-edge Tuesday, saying she would seek another Brexit delay and hold talks with the opposition to seek a compromise. May made the announcement after the EU’s chief negotiator warned that a […]

BIDDEFORD — Plans to open a Denny’s restaurant in Biddeford this spring appear to be on schedule. Last year, a Denny’s spokeswoman confirmed the national chain’s intent to open a restaurant in June 2019 at 45 Boulder Way, the site of a former Ruby Tuesday. Denny’s spokeswoman Ashley Kraynak said in an email on Wednesday […]

NEW YORK — One morning last fall, 4-year-old Joey Wilcox woke up with the left side of his face drooping. It was the first sign of an unfolding nightmare. Three days later, Joey was in a hospital intensive care unit, unable to move his arms or legs or sit up. Spinal taps and other tests […]

The mother of missing child Ayla Reynolds has a message for the girl’s father, Justin DiPietro: You are being served. That’s the gist of a legal notice that will be published Tuesday, as well as April 9 and 16, in the Morning Sentinel, notifying DiPietro that he is being served a summons and complaint for […]

AUGUSTA — In clinical but graphic detail, and with photos projected on a screen behind him, Maine’s Chief Medical Examiner Mark Flomenbaum testified Tuesday about the numerous injuries that caused the death of 4-year-old Kendall Chick in December 2017. Flomenbaum documented 15 to 20 distinct injuries to her head, face and neck, as well as other […]

BERLIN (AP) — It’s Hertha. Berlin’s Tierpark zoo has unveiled the much-anticipated name of its new star attraction, a 4-month-old polar bear cub. Hertha, born on Dec. 1, is named after the German capital’s eponymous top league soccer club, which is sponsoring the animal. The club’s mascot — a brown bear — presented a ball […]

ALFRED — Carol Sharrow, the 52-year-old Sanford woman who drove her Honda onto a ballfield during a Babe Ruth baseball game in June and hit Douglas Parkhurst on her way out was found not criminally responsible for his death during a hearing Tuesday at York County Superior Court. Justice John O’Neil ordered Sharrow committed to […]

BIDDEFORD — The clock in the clock tower at Biddeford City Hall is expected to once again tell time in October, thanks to a project that is underway to restore the clock. City Hall, at 205 Main St., was built in 1895 by architect John Calvin Stevens and is listed on the National Historic Register. […]