SACO — The city of Saco, with the help of an outside firm, has begun its search for a new city administrator. Current City Administrator Kevin Sutherland announced in June that he would not be seeking renewal of his contract beyond Dec. 31. Sutherland has served as city administrator since September 2015, and was previously […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Thursday. The watchdog office said Comey broke bureau rules by giving one memo containing unclassified information to a friend with instructions to share the contents with a reporter. Comey also […]

BIDDEFORD —  Timothy “Tyson” Ortiz, who was acquitted of murder and manslaughter last year in connection with the 2016 death of a Biddeford man was sentenced to slightly more than 7 ½ years in prison during a hearing at U.S. District Court in Portland on Thursday. Ortiz was sentenced by Judge John A. Woodcock to […]

ROCHESTER, N.H. – Two York County women driving separate vehicles collided at an intersection in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, sending both of them and a passenger in one of the vehicles to an area hospital. In a news release issued Thursday morning, Rochester Police said that the crash took place at the intersection of […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Dorian moved out over open waters early Thursday after doing limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, though forecasters warned it was gaining strength and probably would grow into a dangerous storm while heading toward the northern Bahamas and Florida’s east coast. The U.S. National Hurricane […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — The school year started Wednesday at Regional School Unit 23, serving Old Orchard Beach schools, and there are some new faces among the faculty. Matthew Foster just started as the new principal at Loranger Memorial School, which serves students in grades three through eight. Foster introduced himself to the parents in […]

  Taste of Home named Val’s Drive-In on Sabattus Street in Lewiston one of the “best old school drive-ins around the country.” “There’s a lot of drive-ins still in America and I was pretty happy to see we made the top 20,” said owner Chris Lawrence. His grandfather, Val, started the drive-in in the 1970s after […]

BRENTWOOD, N.H.  — A boat operator has avoided jail time after pleading guilty to causing an accident that killed his 7-year-old granddaughter and his girlfriend on the Piscataqua River in Newington, New Hampshire. John Wickman of Eliot pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of negligent homicide. He was sentenced to up to seven years […]

East of Eden, an eight-bedroom, 15,000-square-foot Bar Harbor mansion that is on the National Register of Historic Places, is going on the auction block. The 12-bath waterfront house that sits on nearly 9 acres of land fronting Frenchman Bay has been on the market for about two years, initially at $15.5 million and more recently […]