LOS ANGELES (AP) — Congratulate Bob Newhart on turning 90 on Thursday, and he offers a polite critique in return. “I’m not crazy about the term ‘turning,’” he says, chuckling. “Sounds like the leaves are going to fall off. I’m becoming 90.” As is true of the best comedians, Newhart is an impeccable wordsmith and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The day started with one Republican congressman from Texas announcing he would retire and ended with another, a long-serving former committee chairman from Wisconsin, saying he too was ready to bow out, signaling the House GOP mood as the party tries to find its path back to the majority in 2020. With […]

PORTLAND — A Buxton resident who pointed a firearm at two people and then shot at their vehicle was sentenced Tuesday to more than 5 ½ years in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. Michael Crockett Jr., 35, of Buxton, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment and […]

BIDDEFORD — A project to construct 71 apartments in the Biddeford mill district has moved another step forward, and could progress more this week. On Aug. 20, the Biddeford City Council approved an agreement to temporary take ownership of one of the two buildings from property owner Draft Room, LLC, to use of a federal […]

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Bahamians rescued victims of Hurricane Dorian with jet skis and a bulldozer as the U.S. Coast Guard, Britain’s Royal Navy and a handful of aid groups tried to get food and medicine to survivors and take the most desperate people to safety. Airports were flooded and roads impassable after the most […]

Maine has experienced a sharp decline in high-dose opioid prescriptions since 2015, and much of the decrease has occurred since a new law restricting such prescriptions began to go into effect three years ago. Patients with high-dose opioid prescriptions – those over 100 morphine milligram equivalents per day – plummeted from 29,444 patients in 2015 […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — A bench at Veterans Memorial Park will be dedicated on Sept. 11 to the late Joel Barnes, a firefighter who grew up in Old Orchard Beach and died a hero on March 1. Barnes, a firefighter for the town of Berwick, responded on March 1 with his crew to a four-alarm […]

SOUTH PARIS — A judge has ordered a Hebron man to serve nine months in jail for the shooting death of a woman on her property while he was hunting and she was searching for gemstones. Robert Trundy, 40, was scheduled to go on trial next week, nearly two years after he fatally shot Karen […]