SACO — As budget season begins, the Saco School Board presented an additional request for the 2019-2020 school budget; an expanded pre-kindergarten program. The pre-kindergarten program began in 2018-2019 and filled immediately to capacity with 64 students in full- and half-day programs. The expanded program is proposed to include an additional 64 students. The pre-kindergarten […]

Rosa Slack, one of two black teachers at Kennebunk High School, swallowed her surprise and took the moment in stride: One of her students breezed into the classroom with a Confederate flag draped over his shoulders like a cape while another student recorded her reaction without her knowledge and posted images to social media. The […]

ARUNDEL — The Arundel Historical Society has taken another step in a project to establish a firm foundation at the North Chapel Common site at the corner of Limerick Road and Alfred Road (Route 111). Currently, the society has two 200-plus year-old farmhouses at the site. The Burnham house was built by Nathaniel Currier, circa […]

BELFAST — Police say a man was killed in a crash outside a curling club. The man was a passenger in a car that was involved in a head-on collision outside the Belfast Curling Club on Friday. The drivers of both vehicles were taken to the hospital. Police have not released the names of any […]

AUBURN — A 44-year-old Auburn man was arrested Friday and charged with the rape and murder of a woman in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1993. Maine State Police arrested Steven H. Downs in connection with the slaying of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie in April 1993 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Police in Alaska said DNA evidence […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, could spend more than 19 years in prison on tax and bank fraud charges, prosecutors said Friday. Court documents filed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office reveal that Manafort faces possibly the lengthiest prison term in the Russia investigation. The 69-year-old Manafort […]

AUGUSTA — Former Gov. Paul LePage and his staff members paid for more than 40 rooms at Washington, D.C.’s Trump International Hotel during a two-year period, spending at least $22,000 in Maine taxpayer money at a business owned by the president’s family. Documents recently obtained by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram show that the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Let the lawsuits begin. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency along the southern border and predicted his administration would end up defending it all the way to the Supreme Court. That might have been the only thing Trump said Friday that produced near-universal agreement. The American Civil Liberties Union announced its […]

SACO — Becoming a great chess player requires total concentration while exhibiting a passion for the game and those are two elements Agata Sloniewska clearly demonstrated in winning the Maine Girls’ Closed Chess Championship in Bangor earlier this month. Sloniewska, 16, is a sophomore at Thornton Academy in Saco and is from Poland. She’s been playing […]

AUBURN — A Hebron woman was charged with drunken driving after she drove into the back of an Auburn school bus on West Auburn Road on Thursday afternoon and then backed into a school van from Livermore Falls, police said. Jessica Vennell, 27, slammed her Toyota SUV into the back of the Auburn bus while […]