SANFORD — Several teams of two people and some hearty individuals will chow down on some hefty sandwiches on Sunday, but this Sub Sandwich Eating Contest isn’t the “gulp and go” sort of competition. Those who sign up — and several have already — for the The Donna Challenge contest at the Sandwich Shack in […]

The Maine hemp industry caught a break Wednesday when Gov. Janet Mills signed a law allowing a popular hemp byproduct, cannabidiol, to be added to food products, treating the wildly popular cannabis extract as a food rather than a medicine. “Happy planting, hemp farmers,” said Rep. Craig Hickman, D-Winthrop, the bill’s author. Hickman introduced the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Bush says Donald Trump caused her “angst” during the 2016 election and led her to question whether she was still a Republican in the months before she died. The late former first lady’s thoughts about Trump were revealed in excerpts published Wednesday in USA Today of an upcoming biography, “The Matriarch.” In a […]

AUGUSTA — Hilary Manuel was facing a bleak employment landscape when she graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 2009, so she decided to go on to graduate school at Suffolk University in Boston to improve her odds of finding a job. That worked, but even so she was not making enough to cover […]

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr has told the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that he’s combing through special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, removing information that can’t be legally disclosed in hopes of releasing it to Congress in April. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he had dinner […]

AUGUSTA — Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage pardoned his late mentor’s grandson in the final days of his second four-year term, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press that detail pardons for crimes including drug trafficking, tax evasion and embezzlement of public funds. The secretary of state recently released a list of 112 people […]

ShuttleBus-ZOOM is featuring the Pine Tree Burn Foundation/ National Fire Protection Association in March as part of a community outreach program.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May offered up her job in exchange for her Brexit deal Wednesday, telling colleagues she would quit within weeks if the agreement was passed and Britain left the European Union. May’s dramatic concession that “there is a desire for a new approach – and new leadership” was a […]

BIDDEFORD — It’s been said that art enables us to find ourselves and yet lose ourselves at the same time and for hundreds of Biddeford students that adage becomes reality this evening as the very best of their artwork will be on display during the Biddeford Student Art Show at Biddeford Middle School. The show features […]