BIDDEFORD ‑ November’s mayor race in Biddeford may be a litmus test about how residents feel about the changes to parking policies in the downtown, which include paying to park in city-owned lots. Incumbent Mayor Alan Casavant, a proponent of the changes will face off on Nov. 5 against the policies’ most vocal opponent, Jason […]

Six drivers were charged with operating under the influence during a sobriety checkpoint last weekend in Lebanon, Maine State Police said Thursday. During the four hours the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety checkpoint was open along Route 202, four drivers were charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. Two others were charged with drug-related […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine moved ahead Friday with plans to become the first state to allow voters to rank candidates in a general presidential election. Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, said she’ll allow a bill to become law in January without her signature. The legislation requires ranked choice voting in presidential elections and primaries. […]

SANFORD — Deputy Mayor Lucas Lanigan had some harsh words for the Sanford Police Department on Tuesday. Lanigan, during the Councilor Comment section of the agenda at the end of the City Council meeting, claimed “known” drug houses are being ignored by police and that officers are unable to multitask. “Other communities are getting it […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carol Lynley, a stage and screen actress who starred in the “The Poseidon Adventure” and appeared in numerous other film and television series, has died. She was 77. Lynley’s daughter Jill Selsman said Friday her mother died in her sleep Tuesday in Los Angeles. The actress had a lengthy Hollywood career, […]

A 67-year-old Westbrook man died Friday, one day after he was struck by a vehicle near the intersection of East Bridge and Austin streets in Westbrook, police said. Clifford Verrill was struck about 7:35 a.m. by a vehicle being driven by Nicholas Moulton, 24, of Windham. Verrill was rushed to Maine Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, Westbrook […]

President Trump’s reelection campaign has tapped former Republican Gov. Paul LePage to serve as the campaign’s honorary chairman in Maine. LePage campaigned with Trump, who visited Maine five times in his first campaign for the presidency in 2016. Trump also flirted with the idea he would put LePage on his staff during a Portland Press […]

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — After triggering tornadoes in South Carolina, Hurricane Dorian was closing in for a possible direct hit Friday on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a string of low-lying islands, even as it weakened to a Category 1 storm. On Ocracoke Island, near the southern end of the 200-mile-long (320-kilometer) string of barrier islands […]

Former Republican Gov. Paul LePage hinted Thursday that he is contemplating another run for the governor’s office in 2022. LePage, who served two terms and is the state’s most recent former governor, told Skowhegan-based WSKW conservative radio host Mike Violette that he was talking it over with his wife, Ann LePage. Violette asked him, “One […]