ITHACA, N.Y. — A Kennebunk man faces felony and misdemeanor charges after allegedly discharging an Airsoft pellet gun inside a hotel on Friday afternoon. Police also allegedly found a Molotov cocktail when they responded to a report of shots fired at the Econo Lodge, located on Triphammer Road in Ithaca, New York, according to a […]

  The Old Orchard Beach Community Friendly Connection is launching a pilot program to deliver buckets of salted sand to town residents physically unable to get sand on their own. The program, called Sand 4 Safety, will be open to the first 30 applicants. Delivery is anticipated in the next two weeks. Those who would […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone may be accused of lying and tampering with witnesses, but it’s equally notable what he’s not charged with: colluding with the Kremlin in a grand conspiracy to help Trump win the presidency in 2016. The case is the latest in a series brought by special counsel Robert Mueller that […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Submitting to mounting pressure amid growing disruption, President Donald Trump signed a bill Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congress give him money for his border wall before federal agencies get back to work. Standing alone in the Rose Garden, Trump said he would […]

Sable Oaks Golf Club in South Portland is closing after three decades to make way for housing, the latest casualty in a decade-long decline in the number of golf courses nationwide. The 18-hole public course covering nearly 179 acres near the Maine Mall had a membership of more than 200 golfers, according to Randy Hodsdon, […]

Bangor police say they arrested a woman for breastfeeding her baby while using methamphetamine in part to get her the substance use disorder treatment she needs. Treatment advocates, however, are criticizing the decision to criminally charge a woman who should instead be getting help. Many details of the case have yet to emerge, but the […]

BIDDEFORD — For a group of friends that grew up together in the Old Pool Road area in Biddeford in the 1960s, nostalgia for their past has forged a special bond that extends to this very day. Old Pool Road (now known as Meetinghouse Road) and the old Cote dairy farm property there served as […]

SANFORD — About three weeks from now, Marybeth Stocking will be starting seeds for the 200 varieties of vegetables she and Jordan Pike raise at their farm, called Two Toad Farm, in Lebanon. Stocking said she likes raising food, and she likes the sense of community that can come with it. She’ll be handling all […]

ALFRED — York County government and the York County Registry of Deeds have lost an appeal of a court decision in a dispute over a data contract. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court rendered its decision on Thursday, affirming the original judgment handed up by the York County Superior Court in favor of PropertyInfo Corporation Inc. […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The rapper Nelly is asking a U.S. court to dismiss a British woman’s lawsuit that alleges he sexually assaulted her after a concert in England. The federal lawsuit was filed in November in St. Louis, the rapper’s hometown. The woman accuses Nelly, whose real name is Cornell Haynes Jr., of assaulting […]