AUGUSTA — Beginning in January, MaineHousing’s Housing Choice Voucher Department will assume administration of the Stability Through Engagement Program or STEP vouchers. STEP is designed to provide short term rental assistance to rapidly re-house individuals and families who meet the federal definition of homelessness. The Housing Choice Voucher Department currently administers rental assistance for nearly […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A tsunami that occurred after the eruption of a volcano killed more than 160 people around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait during a busy holiday weekend, sending water crashing ashore and sweeping away hotels, hundreds of houses and people attending a beach concert. More than 700 people were reported injured after the tsunami […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A year after morning news shows at CBS and NBC abruptly lost male anchors Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer in sexual misconduct scandals, the “Today” show has done appreciably better weathering the storm. Momentum at “CBS This Morning,” the most buzzworthy morning show for a handful of years, stopped dead with […]

ROCKLAND — A teenager who police say threatened to shoot up Oceanside High School was arrested in Portland and is being held in the Knox County Jail on a misdemeanor terrorizing charge. Isiah B. Perry, 19, had made a threat via text messages that he would shoot a 14-year-old Thomaston girl and then said he […]

RICHMOND — A crash that killed a 52-year-old Massachusetts woman Friday remains under investigation. Richmond police Chief Scott MacMaster said the woman died after the collision of a UPS truck and a car at the intersection of routes 201 and 197. Richmond police arrived at the crash scene at the intersection, which is commonly referred […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Now in its 10th year, America’s economic expansion still looks sturdy. Yet the partial shutdown of the government that began Saturday has added another threat to a growing list of risks. The stock market’s persistent fall, growing chaos in the Trump administration, higher interest rates, a U.S.-China trade war and a global […]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A convicted sex offender from Wells who volunteered to assist children in a junior pipe and drum band without disclosing that he is a registered sex offender in Maine has been indicted by a New Hampshire grand jury on two felony charges. Wells resident Joseph G. Diment, 78, had been convicted in 2014 on […]

KENNEBUNK — Christmas Day will offer an opportunity for community members to gather together and share in delicious food and fellowship. On Tuesday, Dec. 25, the free, annual “Noël Dinner” will be held at 1 p.m. at St. Martha Church, located at 34 Portland Road in Kennebunk. All are welcome to attend. The event has become a […]

Gov.-elect Janet Mills has invited the public to her inauguration Jan. 2 at the Augusta Civic Center. Tickets are required for entry and are available online at www.janetmills.com/rsvp/public or by phone at 209-4270. Mills, a Democrat currently serving as Maine’s attorney general, will be the first woman sworn in as governor of Maine. She will replace Republican […]

A state trooper who was injured in a crash on the Maine Turnpike in New Gloucester on Friday was continuing to recuperate Saturday. Trooper John Davis, a 17-year veteran of the Maine State Police who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, is expected to stay a couple of more days at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, said Stephen McCausland, […]