AUGUSTA — Maine corporations have recently received misleading solicitation mailings from a business operating under the name Workplace Compliance Services. These mailings include an offer to file annual reports for the corporation, for a $160 fee. Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap advises that the form provided by Workplace Compliance Services is not prescribed or recognized by […]

DALLAS (AP) — Attorneys for a former Baylor University student accused of rape have broken their silence after a judge allowed the former fraternity president to avoid serving jail time, attacking the ex-fraternity president’s accuser and saying she gave “inconsistent” statements to the prosecution. Attorneys Mark Daniel and Tim Moore said that a statement in […]

  WATERBORO — Students and faculty were swiftly evacuated from Massabesic Middle School  in Waterboro after school officials received a call of a bomb threat at about 12:20 p.m. on Wednesday. By 3 p.m. investigators had combed the school with three bomb-sniffing dogs and declared the building was safe. No bombs were located and no […]

SACO — The developer looking to construct an urgent care facility on Route 1 has agreed to reduce the height of the proposed building after hearing feedback from the Saco City Council. ConvenientMD, a for-profit, growing chain of urgent care clinics based in New Hampshire, is seeking approval to build a facility along Route 1 […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a wild Oval Office confrontation, President Donald Trump heatedly threatened to shut down the U.S. government Tuesday as he and Democratic leaders bickered over funding for his promised border wall and offered a grim preview of life in Washington the next two years under divided government. Trump and House and Senate […]

WATERBORO — A suspect charged in August with alleged sex crimes involving a child has been indicted by a York County grand jury. Brent D. Capener of Waterboro, 43, was indicted on two Class B felony counts of unlawful sexual contact involving a child under 12 years old. The offenses are alleged to have taken […]

KENNEBUNK — Police are continuing to investigate the theft of a wooden Native American statue from a Kennebunk business that took place in mid-November. Thieves apparently stole the statue sometime between closing on Thursday, Nov. 15 and opening on Friday, Nov. 16 from the Main Street Barber Shop. On Tuesday, shop owner Ed Beckett said […]

DIXMONT — A man who caused a standoff that ended with him being shot three times and his home destroyed by a police explosive plans to sue law enforcement agencies. The Bangor Daily News reports a claim by Michael Grendell sent Monday to Maine State Police and other departments requests $120 million in damages. The […]

The state’s highest court will hear arguments Wednesday in the appeal of the man convicted of killing a 16-year-old girl in East Millinocket in 1980. Philip Scott Fournier, a longtime suspect in the teenager’s death, was charged and arrested in 2016, 36 years after the killing. He was convicted of murder by Superior Court Justice Ann Murray after […]

LYMAN — Late one night in November, Gwen Fletcher, 10, gave her mother a locket with a picture of her husband, Dylan, who had died two weeks earlier of pancreatic cancer. Julie Fletcher, 37, was bedridden and in the final stages of an extremely rare and incurable form of cancer that had started in the […]