PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — U.S. lobster exports to China have fallen off a cliff this year as new retaliatory tariffs shift the seafood business farther north. China, a huge and growing customer for lobster, placed heavy tariffs on U.S. lobsters — and many other food products — in July 2018 amid rising trade hostilities between […]

SPRINGVALE – The two people who were injured Saturday night in Springvale when the Kia Forte they were in hit the guardrail and left the roadway have both been released from the hospital, police said on Monday afternoon. The vehicle, operated by Hunter Penley, 23, of North Berwick, collided with several trees and rolled onto […]

BIDDEFORD – East Point Sanctuary, is a 27-acre property in Biddeford Pool and sits on a peninsula. It overlooks the rocky Maine coastline, and has views of Saco Bay and the Gulf of Maine, and the Wood Island lighthouse. The about 1-mile trail on the property traverses through wildlife habitat and is one of the […]

LEWISTON — A Biddeford motorist has pleaded not guilty to seven charges stemming from a police chase starting in Lewiston in May. Police arrested Allan D. Walsh, 46, after a lengthy chase on May 10 that ended in Monmouth. In responding to a call about a driver at Cumberland Farms on Main Street appearing to be  “very […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Can someone as notorious in the #MeToo era as Harvey Weinstein get a fair trial in the world’s media capital? That’s one of the legal questions looming over the sexual assault case against the movie mogul with jury selection scheduled for early next month. Weinstein’s lawyers want the trial moved from […]

A search for a New Hampshire fugitive that dragged on for nearly a month ended Sunday morning in Lebanon, when Maine State Police apprehended 32-year-old Richard Jacques, a Lebanon resident. A news release posted on the Maine State Police Facebook page said that Trooper Kyle Wells was on routine patrol when he spotted a motor […]

Almost 2,000 athletes enjoyed ideal weather Sunday at the Ironman 70.3 Maine triathlon in Old Orchard Beach. Jerome Bergeron of Quebec was the overall winner with an unofficial time of 4 hours, 19 minutes and 53 seconds, and Tara McWilliams of New York won the women’s division in 4:49:04. The event included a 1.2-mile swim […]

Three people were injured, one of them seriously, in a two-car collision that forced authorities to close Route 236 in South Berwick for about three hours Sunday morning. South Berwick police said in a news release said that Scott West, 62, of Eliot was traveling northbound when a car making a left turn onto Route […]

SPRINGVALE – Two people were seriously injured Saturday night in Springvale when the Kia Forte  they were in hit the guardrail and left the roadway. Police said the vehicle collided with several trees and rolled onto its side. The vehicle was heading north on Route 109 toward Shapleigh when the crash took place in an […]