A 21-year-old woman was seriously injured Friday night when she was struck by a car on Franklin Street in Portland. The woman’s identity is being withheld pending notification of her family, police said Saturday. They said her injuries are not life-threatening. Police said she was struck by a silver 2007 Chevrolet Impala driven by Justin […]

ARUNDEL  — Members of the York County community will have the opportunity to raise money for United Way of York County by test-driving a Ford vehicle. Arundel Ford and United Way of York County are working together to help raise up to a maximum of $6,000 in support of the annual Tools4Schools backpack program as […]

CLIFTON — A man who police say confessed to fatally shooting his girlfriend in the back has pleaded not guilty to murder. Police say 37-year-old Dwight Osgood told them that he killed 35-year-old Kary Dill in January in the Clifton home they shared. Clifton is in Penobscot County. The Bangor Daily News reports Osgood had his first […]

President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S. judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in a decision late Friday threw out Trump’s executive […]

SANFORD — Maine State Police have announced the arrest of a New Hampshire fugitive who was captured in Sanford. According to a press release posted on the Maine State Police Headquarters facebook page, troopers from Troop A were asked to assist investigators from New Hampshire’s Strafford County Sheriff’s Department in locating and arresting a suspect […]

BIDDEFORD — The return of spring and warmer weather means that constructions crews are able to return to work on several street and sidewalk projects that began last year in Biddeford. Crews have resumed work on the South Street Project and will begin replacing sewer lines and storm drains underneath South Street between Dearborn Street […]

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Threatening drastic action against Mexico, President Donald Trump declared Friday he is likely to shut down America’s southern border next week unless Mexican authorities immediately halt all illegal immigration. Such a severe move could hit the economies of both countries, but the president emphasized, “I am not kidding around.” “It […]

SANFORD — There were red prom dresses and black ones, green ones and blue. There were above-the-knee styles, and gowns that touched the floor, strapless and not. The prom dress giveaway – along with gold and silver dress pumps or sandals and an array of sparkly jewelry – is part of the clothing closet at Sanford […]

BIDDEFORD — Chances are that this year’s graduating class at the University of New England is going to hear about a lot of “firsts” as they pick up their diplomas on May 18. Maine Gov. Janet Mills has accepted an invitation to deliver the Commencement Address at the school’s 184th University Commencement Ceremony in Portland where […]

SACO — People are flocking to the beach in Saco to check out an unusually high amount of driftwood, an unexpected byproduct from a sand replenishment effort. The Army Corps of Engineers embarked on the second phase of a dredging project in the Saco River in January. Through the project, sand from the mouth of […]