ROCKLAND — A 38-year-old Thomaston man will likely remain in jail after he made his initial court appearance Friday on 115 counts related to a three-year burglary spree across the midcoast. Superior Court Justice Bruce Mallonee agreed with the request of the district attorney’s office to set bail for Joshua L. Vandine at $50,000 cash. […]

SACO — The Ecology School of Saco has received a generous gift of $10,000 from The Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust to support the design and implementation of permaculture gardens throughout the school’s new environmental education center at River Bend Farm. Permaculture is a way to grow food by using ideas and methods learned through natural ecosystem study. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials and congressional aides emerged from talks to reopen the government without a breakthrough Saturday, though they planned to return to the table the following day. President Donald Trump tweeted: “Not much headway made today.” The president later tweeted that he planned to go to his retreat at Camp David, […]

Ghost sightings? Check. Illustrious (although apparently false) place in state history? Check. Across the street from L.L. Bean’s flagship store? Check. The building that houses Jameson Tavern in Freeport can check off a lot of unique assets as it heads to market priced at $1.3 million. Besides its own history, the building is “located in […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Britney Spears is putting her planned Las Vegas residency on hold to focus on her father’s recovery from a life-threatening illness. The pop superstar announced Friday she is going on an indefinite work hiatus. Her residency was scheduled to kick off in February at Park Theater at the Park MGM casino-resort. […]

YORK COUNTY —York County Senior College’s Winter 2019 Gary Sullivan Memorial Lecture Series begins in January with a focus on history, both familial and geographical. All Senior College lectures take place in the morning and afternoons of Jan. 16, Feb. 20 and March 20 at the Brothers of Christian Instruction in Alfred. Leading off the […]

An eight-month independent audit of Central Maine Power’s billing and metering systems offered hope that ongoing anger and confusion about high electric bills for tens of thousands of customers finally would be cleared up. That didn’t happen. The Maine Public Utilities Commission released a long-awaited report just before Christmas that concluded last winter’s cold spell was largely […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The federal agency tasked with guaranteeing U.S. airport security acknowledged an increase in the number of its employees calling off work during the partial government shutdown . Employees of the Transportation Security Administration are expected to work without pay during the shutdown because their jobs are considered essential. The TSA said in a statement […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agencies have been directed to hold off enacting pay raises for top administration officials during a government shutdown that has left hundreds of thousands of federal workers without pay. The guidance was issued Friday in a memo from Margaret Weichert, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management. The raises […]