OLD ORCHARD BEACH — The Old Orchard Beach Police Department has released the names of individuals arrested or issued a summons from Feb. 11 to Feb. 25: • Taylor Gross, 25, of Westbrook, was issued a summons for operating after suspension. • Alison Dunton, 45, of Old Orchard Beach, was issued a summons for operating […]

PHOENIX (AP) — More than 30 years after it was brazenly stolen from an Arizona museum, a painting by Willem de Kooning reportedly worth $100 million is going on display back where it all began. The University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson is throwing a fundraiser and homecoming party of sorts for “Woman-Ochre” […]

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — When the gunman advanced toward the mosque, killing those in his path, Abdul Aziz didn’t hide. Instead, he picked up the first thing he could find, a credit card machine, and ran outside screaming “Come here!” Aziz, 48, is being hailed as a hero for preventing more deaths during Friday […]

A federal judge has awarded $1.8 million in damages to a former Maine man who was cleared of charges of sexually assaulting his wife. Former Gouldsboro resident Vladek Filler already reached a $375,000 settlement against more than a dozen police officers and prosecutors. This week, a federal judge ordered damages to be paid by a […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The Mount Desert Island High School Big Group jazz ensemble was only a few bars into its opening number, “Baby Carrots,” when it became clear why the audience was standing-room-only at the Maine Music Educators Association’s Maine High School Instrumental Jazz Festival. With the opening click, click, click of a drumstick, the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump played down any threat posed by racist white nationalism on Friday after the gunman accused of the New Zealand mosque massacre called the president “a symbol of renewed white identity.” Trump, whose own previous responses to the movement have drawn scrutiny, expressed sympathy for the victims who died […]

The Maine Center for Disease Control is investigating a confirmed case of mumps at York High School, the agency announced Friday. This is the first mumps case in 2019, and the unvaccinated student “was not isolated during the beginning of their illness and may have exposed others to the virus at York High School from […]

ALFRED – A hearing for a woman who wants to withdraw her guilty plea in connection with the 2017 stabbing death of her husband in Acton is now scheduled for June. Kandee Weyland Collind, 48, had been scheduled to appear at York County Superior Court on her motion to withdraw the guilty plea on Thursday, […]