Maine State Police are investigating a motor vehicle crash that damaged a Berwick police cruiser and destroyed two other vehicles last week. The crash took place around 6:30 p.m. Thursday on Hubbard Road in Berwick, according to a statement posted Sunday on the police department’s Facebook page. Berwick police Officer Jeff Pilkington had pulled over […]

Lunar New Year is supposed to be the busiest time of the year for Tom Adams, whose company, Maine Coast, used to sell millions of pounds of lobster to China. But the U.S.-China trade war has shut Maine Coast out of that market. His old Chinese customers now buy their lobster from Canada, which can […]

RICHFORD, Vt. — It was about 2 a.m. on a moonless October night in 1987 when the police chief of a small northern Vermont town spotted a man carrying a black bag and walking down the railroad tracks from Canada toward a waiting van about a mile south of the border. The man turned out […]

WELLS — Now that Paisley’s home, there’s no more dog-gone problem in Wells. “Oh! Look at her! She is so cute,” said 6-year-old Lily Vollor, catching her first glimpse of the 8-year-old English bulldog, who was missing for more than 10 days in January before turning up wet, cold and tired at a house 2 […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York issued a subpoena Monday seeking documents from Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, furthering a federal inquiry into a fund that has faced mounting scrutiny into how it raised and spent its money. Inaugural committee spokeswoman Kristin Celauro told The Associated Press that the committee had received the […]

A downtown Portland noodle bar was robbed Saturday night when a man armed with a knife threatened employees, then used the knife to cut the wires to the cash register and ran out carrying the cash drawer. “All of the staff are in shock, but luckily no one was physically injured,” read a Facebook post […]

This championship wasn’t pretty, but it just might be the sweetest Celebrate this one, New England. If this turns out to be the final championship for the Bill Belichick-Tom Brady partnership, they left you with one to remember. The Patriots won their sixth Vince Lombardi Trophy Sunday night, beating the upstart Los Angeles Rams, 13-3, […]

A historic church in Portland’s West End that was the subject of a controversial zone change upheld by Maine’s highest court is about to be sold at auction, unless a pending purchase is finalized in the next two weeks. Williston West Church at 32 Thomas St. is scheduled to be sold at a foreclosure auction […]

WESTBROOK — In the three weeks since a 300-foot-wide disk of ice started spinning on the river in downtown Westbrook, it seems the entire world paid attention. Tens of thousands of people stopped by the banks of the Presumpscot River for a glimpse. Scientists set up a webcam so they could study it. Poets wrote […]