NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Jackson has used digital wizardry to conjure J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth and King Kong’s 1930s New York, but he has now — in perhaps his most acclaimed film — employed all his technical powers to bring to life the Western Front of the first World War. Jackson’s “They Shall Not […]

VASSALBORO – Five York County officers are among 62 who graduated Friday from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy after 18 weeks of training. Most will begin patrolling immediately, in time for Christmas and New Year’s Eve enforcement efforts, said Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland. The five new York County officers are Samantha Prior of […]

A man and woman were found dead Saturday inside a mobile home in Richmond, police said. The bodies were found around noon in the residence at 7 Post Road, said Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Detectives from the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit were interviewing neighbors and speaking with […]

Two Massachusetts residents were arrested on charges of aggravated trafficking in heroin and fentanyl in South Portland, authorities said Saturday. The drugs have an estimated street value of in $34,080, Arrested were Luis Ortiz, 24, and Tatiana Rosado, 27, both of Lowell, Mass. The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said in statement that agents from the […]

As he considers running for president, Joe Biden is talking with friends and longtime supporters about whether, at 76, he’s too old to seek the White House, according to several sources who have spoken with the former Democratic vice president. The discussions suggest Biden is aware that his age may be the biggest hurdle to […]

SACO — Maine State Police have identified the man struck and killed on the Maine Turnpike near Saco early Saturday morning as Tyler Seaver, 27, of Biddeford. Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said troopers are still trying to determine why Seaver was walking along the turnpike. He was first struck by a car and then […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shaken and facing a prison term, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer said Friday that Trump directed him to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 campaign because he was concerned their stories of alleged affairs with him “would affect the election.” He says Trump knew the payments were wrong. […]

SACO – Maine State Police say a pedestrian was struck and killed early Saturday morning on the Maine Turnpike in Saco. The accident took place in the northbound lanes about 3 a.m. Saturday, said Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland. The circumstances of the man’s presence on the turnpike was not immediately able to be […]