BIDDEFORD — The city of Biddeford is continuing its efforts to promote the revitalization of its neighborhoods with the My Neighborhood Network initiative. Residents of defined downtown neighborhoods meet to discuss what makes them feel connected to their neighborhood and what changes they would like to see. The Main Street neighborhood will have its first meeting […]

A moose calf was killed in a crash involving three snowmobiles Friday night in Piscataquis County, according to the Maine Warden Service. The snowmobilers encountered the moose calf while traveling at about 6 p.m. on Interconnecting Trail System 110 in Bowdoin College Grant, west of Greenville, at the lower end of Moosehead Lake in Piscataquis […]

BAR HARBOR — Verna Bloom, the actress who portrayed the wife of the dean in the movie “Animal House,” has died. She was 80. Family spokesman Mike Kaplan told The Hollywood Reporter that Bloom died Wednesday in Bar Harbor of complications from dementia. In the 1978 John Landis film, Bloom played Marion Wormer, who flirted […]

WINDHAM — A grand jury has handed up an indictment of a Maine man in connection with a fatal tow truck crash last year. Police say the crash took place Nov. 13 in Windham. They say 49-year-old Manford Rideout, of Windham, was driving a tow truck eastbound when he crossed the center line and hit […]

GORDON, Wis. (AP) — The man suspected of kidnapping a Wisconsin teenager and killing her parents with a shotgun nearly three months ago appears to have led an unremarkable existence until that fateful night, blending into the state’s vast northwestern forests. Jake Thomas Patterson grew up in Gordon, a sprawling township of 645 people tucked […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama stunned Republicans when he bypassed Congress and — relying on what he called his pen and his phone — used executive powers to enact his agenda, including protecting millions of young immigrants from deportation. Now, with President Donald Trump proposing an even more dramatic end-run around Congress to build […]

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News announced its professional divorce agreement with Megyn Kelly late Friday, ending an association with the former Fox News Channel star whose attempt to become a network morning television star as part of the “Today” show floundered. Terms were not disclosed. Kelly was in the second of a three-year contract […]

A Portland woman was critically injured Thursday night in a head-on collision on Route 27 in Sidney, and criminal charges could be possible pending further investigation, police said. Michelle Naughton, 40, was driving south in a 2003 Buick Regal when she crossed the centerline and struck a 2014 Dodge Journey SUV driven by Christopher Blodgett, […]

Family members of Coast Guardsmen in Maine says they are both furious and terrified about the economic impact they are facing because of the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government. “It’s very scary to know that our bills are due in a few days and people don’t seem to care if we can pay […]

SHAPLEIGH — On the day Michael Roux was born, his father, Michael Sr., bought him a cow, a milking shorthorn the family named Maxine. It was a signal, perhaps, of what was to come. Young Michael spent 13 years in 4-H, and showed his cows at agriculture fairs across the area. He still does. One year, […]