SUMUR, Indonesia (AP) — Christmas celebrations traditionally filled with laughter and uplifting music were replaced by somber prayers for tsunami victims in an area hit without warning following a volcanic eruption, leaving more than 420 people dead and thousands homeless in disaster-prone Indonesia. Pastor Markus Taekz said Tuesday that his Rahmat Pentecostal Church in the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Irritated with the criticism and fallout from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ resignation, President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed the Pentagon chief out the door two months earlier than planned, an acrimonious end to a tense relationship that had been eroding in recent months. In a series of tweets, Trump appeared to question […]

Full-size flavored bagels and flavored 1 percent milk may be making a comeback in Maine school cafeterias next year, now that the Trump administration is relaxing nutritional standards for the National School Lunch Program. The change, announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture this month, ends the Obama-era requirement that schools serve only whole grain […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Ruth Bader Ginsburg film “On the Basis of Sex” was about to fall apart when Felicity Jones got her hands on the script. The origin story about the future Supreme Court justice written by Ginsburg’s nephew Daniel Stiepleman had been in various stages of development since 2012, looking for the […]

Maine State Police were trying to determine Sunday night who was driving a car that witnesses say was traveling at speeds of more than 100 mph before it crashed into the rear of a pickup truck, causing the truck to roll over on the Maine Turnpike in Biddeford. State Trooper Anthony Keim said the driver […]

Maine’s unemployment rate just notched up a 36-month – and counting – run under 4.0 percent. But experts say Mainers, especially those who own or run a business, should hold off on popping champagne corks. The flipside of low unemployment is a tight labor market, and employers continue to experience real difficulty in finding and […]

WEST BATH — A judge will decide whether a blood sample, taken from a Hope woman charged with two counts of manslaughter for a January crash in Woolwich that killed a couple, can be used at her upcoming trial. Justice Daniel Billings took the defense motion to exclude the blood test under advisement in the […]

BIDDEFORD — Time and Tide coffee is the newest business on Main Street in Biddeford and the locally owned coffee shop, across the street from the Pepperell Mill campus, focuses on sourcing specialized coffee blends and making its customers feel comfortable and relaxed. Since the shop’s opening on Nov. 18, Time and Tide co-owners Briana Campbell and […]

SACO — The Ecology School plans to move forward with a design for its new campus that will make it among the greenest projects in the state. The Ecology School was founded in 1998 and provides residential and day ecological education programs. For many years the school operated on space along the coast it leased […]