AUGUSTA – Maine’s outgoing Republican Gov. Paul LePage and the state’s incoming Democratic Gov.-elect Janet Mills are clashing over whether LePage’s administration should suspend signing any new contracts with private vendors until after Mills takes office on Jan. 2. Mills sent a letter Monday to LePage’s commissioners for the departments of Administration and Financial Services […]

SANFORD – The following people were charged by Sanford Police Dec. 5 through Dec. 10: • Shantel A. Lacourse, 37, Sanford was arrested on a warrant on Island Avenue. • Antonio James Pillino, 59, was issued a summons charging theft on Main Street. • A 15-year-old was issued a summons charging disorderly conduct on Alumni […]

BIDDEFORD — The following individuals were arrested or issued a summons by Biddeford Police from Oct. 1 to Oct. 14, 2018: • Jose U. Mendoza-Lopez, 41, of Biddeford, was issued a summons for failure to register vehicle. • Derick M. Dorais, 28, of Biddeford, was arrested for violating condition of release. • Logan M. Burnett, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Sorkin is a huge fan of courtroom dramas, both as a reader and as a watcher. His first Broadway play was the swashbuckling military justice story, “A Few Good Men,” and he’s returned with another legal thriller this winter. But this time he had to shake off a real courtroom […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure from President Donald Trump and many of his Republican colleagues, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he will bring legislation to the floor to overhaul the nation’s federal sentencing laws. McConnell’s decision comes after more than three years of overtures from a large, bipartisan group of senators who […]

LONDON (AP) — Facing almost certain defeat, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed a vote in Parliament on her Brexit deal, saying she would go back to European Union leaders to seek changes to the divorce agreement. May’s move threw Britain’s Brexit plans into disarray, intensified a domestic political crisis and battered the […]

SANFORD — Southern York County Toys for Tots, the group that serves 1,400 children in Sanford and a host of surrounding communities, is looking for a few elves to help out with set-up, distribution and clean-up later this week. In all, it takes about 75 volunteers to get the job done, said the volunteer group’s […]

A bomb squad on Monday detonated a military ballistic projectile that was picked up by a fishing vessel and delivered ashore at Bailey Island in Harpswell. The device – found Monday morning on the docks at the Bailey Island Lobster Wharf – was blown up in a local sand pit by the Maine State Police […]

Most home and small-business electric customers in southern and central Maine will see the cost of their power supply go up roughly 14 percent on Jan. 1, after the Maine Public Utilities Commission on Monday approved a new standard offer rates for 2019. Rates will rise from 7.9 cents per kilowatt hour to 9 cents. […]