A shortage of skilled labor and expensive materials have pushed construction costs to the highest point since the Great Recession just as the spring construction season gets underway. High prices threaten to put the brakes on some new developments as the industry struggles to find workers in a state where unemployment has been below 4 […]

The U.S. Marshal’s Office apprehended two fugitives this week, finding both women hiding in closets in house in West Baldwin. Sasha Rand, 33, and 36-year-old Ashley Cameron, both wanted by New Hampshire authorities, were located Wednesday hiding out in a home on Chase Road in West Baldwin. The women were arrested by members of the […]

Nathaniel Taylor, the actor best known as Rollo Lawson, the street-smart best friend of the son on the 1970s sitcom “Sanford and Son,” has died. Taylor died Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after a heart attack, his son Kaedi Taylor told The Associated Press Saturday. The elder Taylor was […]

The federal government is penalizing four Maine hospitals for high rates of “hospital-acquired” conditions, such as patients being sickened by an infection while in the hospital. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services withheld 1 percent of Medicare payments in fiscal year 2018-19 to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, York Hospital, St. Joseph […]

WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a local official said Saturday. The blast early Friday caused massive oil spillage in the Nembe kingdom in Bayelsa state, the Nembe Chiefs Council spokesman, Chief Nengi James-Eriworio, told The Associated Press. […]

BIDDEFORD — Friends, families and colleagues turned out Thursday at Springvale District Court where retiring Maine District Court Judge Michael Cantara spent most of the dozen of years he served on the bench. On Friday by telephone, he described what constituted the best sort of day for him while presiding over a courtroom. There are […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional committee is giving the White House until Monday to voluntarily turn over documents related to White House security clearances. The deadline from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform comes amid questions about the Trump administration’s truthfulness regarding how senior adviser Jared Kushner got his high-level security clearance. Chairman […]