For the second time in just over a week, a Maine State Trooper has been injured when his cruiser was struck from behind while parked in a breakdown lane of the Maine Turnpike. Trooper Ryan Keller was parked at mile 70 in New Gloucester, on the northbound side of the highway, when the crash happened […]

Jared Golden will be sworn in with the other members of the incoming Congress on Jan. 3. Gov. Paul LePage signed off on the state’s first-in-the-nation ranked-choice election to Congress on Friday, but also left a note of protest against the voter-approved election law that propelled Democratic state Rep. Jared Golden to a victory over […]

BIDDEFORD —  Maine Repertory Theater’s American Chamber of Comedy premiere production “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Improv” closes tonight with a 9 p.m. performance. Maine Rep is located in the Pepperell Mill complex at 40 Main St., Building 13. To get to the theater, enter the doors to the left of Portland Pie. […]

  SACO — The Saco Police Department collected and distributed more than 1,000 pairs of socks for area seniors in its annual Socks for Seniors drive. This was a record amount for the sock drive, which began in 2015 and last year collected about 500 pairs of socks. The police department decided to raise the […]

BIDDEFORD — Engine will host an opening reception of Faces Behind Atrocity, an exhibition featuring the work of award-winning American documentary photographer Matilde Simas of Boston from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12 in Biddeford. January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month and this exhibition intends to raise awareness of trafficking happening here […]

They won’t give Maine’s next congressman the keys to his office until Wednesday, but his new digs in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill are ready. They’re a little sparse, though. Pictures of the still-vacant office taken this week show only empty shelves, gleaming desktops and computers showing only screensavers. Aisha Woodward, chief […]

WASHINGTON — The partial government shutdown will almost certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought to raise the stakes in the weeklong impasse. As agreement eludes Washington in the waning days of the Republican monopoly on power, […]

PORTLAND — Supreme Court Chief Justice Leigh I. Saufley has  announced the recipients of this year’s Judicial Branch Performance Council employee and volunteer recognition awards and a Biddeford resident is among those being honored for her work. Each year since 1997, the Judicial Branch has honored individual employees, teams, and volunteers who have made outstanding […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Frank Adonis, an actor best known for his roles in Martin Scorsese films including “Goodfellas,” ″Raging Bull” and “Casino,” has died. He was 83. His wife, Denise, told TMZ and Fox News that he died Wednesday in Las Vegas after several years of illness, mostly from kidney problems. She said he’d […]