A state-funded marketing council is expanding its new-shell lobster crusade to focus on courting the fishmongers who sell seafood, not just the chefs who cook it. The Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative plans to appoint a celebrity spokesman, submit a trademark application and create a seasonal calendar to persuade the middlemen of the seafood supply chain […]

KENNEBUNK – Organizers from Caring Unlimited say those who take the Atlantic Plunge are ‘freezin’ for a reason.’ The annual event, which benefits the domestic violence resource center, commences on Gooch’s Beach at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 5. And while that is several days off, chances are pretty good that the air will be […]

Bridgton police said Tuesday that they arrested an 18-year-old suspect after he allegedly assaulted another person with a knife on Christmas morning. Tyler G. Loisel of Bridgton was charged with burglary and aggravated assault and was being held in Cumberland County Jail in Portland after an altercation with the victim at a home on Green […]

KENNEBUNK — If you miss it at at 9 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, you can see it at midnight. That is when a big, big, blue sphere will drop from the bell tower of First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Kennebunk, signaling the birth of a brand new year. New York is famous for […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Supermodel Heidi Klum is engaged to her musician boyfriend. The 45-year-old German model announced her engagement to Tokio Hotel guitarist Tom Kaulitz in an Instagram post on Monday. She has been dating the 29-year-old Kaulitz for nearly a year. The post featured a black-and-white photo of the couple, with Klum showing her diamond […]

SANFORD – The following individuals were arrested or issued a summons by Sanford Police from Dec. 17 to Dec. 20: • Steven L. Murtinger, 42, Springvale, was issued a summons charging he drove after his license was suspended. • Donald R. James, 29, Sanford, was arrested and charged with operating under the influence, violating conditions […]

Maine companies are bringing in food waste from out of state as the market for household and commercial composting slows here. Mainers produced 632 tons of food waste a day last year – almost a pound of apple cores, rotten vegetables, spoiled yogurt and meat trimmings a day for every person in the state. Three […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in a week will thrust President Donald Trump’s largely unknown choice for acting Pentagon chief into the military hot seat and shift attention to the search for a permanent replacement who will probably face sharp Capitol Hill questioning about the administration’s murky foreign policy. Trump […]

GOULDSBORO — A Maine sheriff says two people died in a Christmas morning crash on Route 1. Lisa Grant, 57, of Orrington and John Organes, 35, of Sullivan died following a crash Tuesday morning at the intersection of Route 1 and Chicken Mill Road, WMTW-TV reported. Hancock County Sheriff Scott Kane says Grant was pronounced […]