BIDDEFORD – Call them pioneers, but Southern Maine Health Care’s Center for Breast Care is the first hospital in Maine to introduce a new procedure called Magnetic Seed Localization, which improves breast cancer patient’s surgical experience while maintaining accuracy and quality outcomes.The Magnetic Seed Localization technique is used to mark a tumor site in the […]

ALFRED — A York County Superior Court judge this week lifted a stay that had temporarily blocked preparations for a recall election in Ogunquit, but the court still must decide on a lawsuit seeking to block the vote. The stay was issued in February, hours before the Ogunquit Select Board was scheduled to set a date for […]

ALFRED — A grand jury in York County has indicted a Standish man who broke into another man’s home last December, took a shower, ate a meal and watched television. Derek S. Tarbox, 35, of Maple Ridge Drive in Standish, was indicted on two burglary counts, three counts of theft, one count of unauthorized use […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Reigning entertainer of the year Jason Aldean will receive the artist of the decade award at this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards in April. The ACM announced Wednesday that Aldean will join only five other honorees that have received the award since 1969, including Marty Robbins, Loretta Lynn, Alabama, Garth […]

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders reasserted himself on Thursday as the original champion of a progressive agenda many of his fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have since adopted. The Vermont senator rallied a cheering throng in a noisy convention center in western Iowa, promoting the same themes that launched him to a […]

BIDDEFORD — Students at Biddeford Intermediate School learned Wednesday how a beloved pet inspired a side career for one of their teachers. Wednesday was the school’s annual career day, and students got the chance to listen to presentations from speakers representing a variety of professions including a police officer, a wedding planner, yoga teacher, Kung […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — When former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is sentenced for tax and bank fraud, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III will likely issue the same lecture he gives to drug dealers and bank robbers. “You write the pages to your own life story,” Ellis routinely tells defendants before pronouncing sentence. He […]

The state is moving forward with a plan to replace a busy I-295 bridge in Portland using an accelerated construction method that could mean closing the highway for just a single weekend in 2021. The plan calls for building a replacement bridge next to the current one, then demolishing the old structure and immediately sliding […]

York police said an 83-year-old local woman was killed late Wednesday morning after driving off the road and hitting a tree in the vicinity of 650 York St. A passerby spotted the car around 11:56 a.m. and notified authorities. There were no known witnesses to the crash, York Police Sgt. John Lizanecz said. The woman […]

PORTLAND — Most days no one visits Carol Kotal. A thin pink string hangs from the wall of her tidy apartment in Portland senior housing, ready for her to pull if she had an emergency. But based on past experience when her neighbors have sounded the alarm, Kotal figures no one would come. So Kotal […]