BANGOR – A Maine State Police affidavit indicates a fatal beating was captured on video by Facebook Messenger by the alleged assailant’s cellphone in Bangor. A woman told police that video captured by the phone in Donald Galleck’s shirt pocket showed him punching the victim and pounding his head on a street. The 29-year-old Galleck […]

SANFORD — York County Community Action Corporation was awarded a $5,000 donation from TruChoice Federal Credit Union earlier this month as part of TruChoice’s Community Giving. “We’re always grateful for financial assistance from local businesses” said Barbara Crider, executive director of the agency. “And with the year now entering its coldest months, the funds will […]

SEBRING, Fla. (AP) — A former prison guard trainee who recently moved to Florida from Indiana killed five people during a standoff at a small town bank before surrendering to a SWAT team that stormed the building, police said. Investigators said Zephen Xaver, 21, called police from inside the SunTrust Bank branch Wednesday to report that he […]

PORTLAND — A Biddeford resident has pleaded guilty to a charge of sex trafficking of a minor in Maine. Isaac “Henny” Suero, 22, was arrested in August for the crime and entered his plea last week at U.S. District Court in Portland. Federal investigators say that in April 2017, Suero persuaded a 15-year-old girl he had […]

BIDDEFORD — In the 21st century, the most important trait that a teacher can pass on to a student is the ability to think critically and that’s the aim of a new creative after-school educational program open to middle and high school students in Saco, Biddeford, Kennebunk and other surrounding towns. The Penn program launched earlier […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani’s latest media blitz, which was filled with a dizzying array of misstatements and hurried clarifications, agitated President Donald Trump and some of his allies, who have raised the possibility that the outspoken presidential lawyer be at least temporarily sidelined from televised interviews. Trump was frustrated with Giuliani, according to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar voters on Tuesday showered Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” with a leading 10 nominations for the 91st Academy Awards, while two dominant but contentious Hollywood forces — Netflix and Marvel — each scored their first best picture nomination. Though many expected “A Star Is Born,” Bradley Cooper’s […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers planned to return to work Wednesday after voting to ratify a deal between their union and school officials, ending a six-day strike in the nation’s second-largest district. “I voted ‘yes,’ to approve,” said second-grade teacher Wendy Perez. “I think the union negotiated in good […]

Increased tidal flooding caused by sea level rise has contributed to a loss of about $70 million in the appreciation of waterfront real estate values in Maine over the last 12 years, according to a report released Tuesday. Research compiled by Columbia University and First State Foundation, a Brooklyn, N.Y., nonprofit that quantifies the economic […]