Praise for former President George H.W. Bush, who died Friday: (He) “was a man of the highest character. The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41’s life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for Dad.” – Former President George W. Bush “George H.W. Bush’s life is a testament to […]

Gov. Paul LePage on Saturday reminisced about his friendship with former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara. “He and Barbara were good friends of ours,” LePage said in a phone interview. “Barbara was a special, special friend to both Ann and I, and George was just a great guy. He’s what I call […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Life is slowly settling down in Alaska following a powerful earthquake that rattled buildings, disrupted power and caused heavy damage to the only highway that goes north of Anchorage. Still, hundreds of aftershocks frayed nerves Saturday as people worried about being caught in more massive shakers. “They’re disturbing, and I’m not […]

AL-JAHRA, Kuwait (AP) — On the outskirts of Kuwait City, the love Kuwaitis have for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush could be seen in 2016 on a billboard one Bedouin family put up to announce their son’s wedding. That son being Bush al-Widhan, born in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War that saw […]

HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94 and passed away in Houston, Texas […]

AUGUSTA — For a drunken-driving crash that killed one of his friends and severely injured another, a Wayne man will spend the next 59 months behind bars. That will be followed by four years of probation, while the remainder of the 14-year sentence is suspended. Tyler J. Goucher, 23, was sentenced Friday during a hearing […]

The Maine Department of Transportation is launching a new program to help stranded motorists on the busy southern stretch of Interstate 295. The state has hired an outside company for safety service patrols on I-295 between Exit 1 in Scarborough and Exit 22 in Freeport starting Monday. Modeled after a program on the Maine Turnpike, […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — When the Old Orchard Beach High School Class of 2018 graduated in June, they hoped to have their yearbooks in hand and ready to be signed by friends and teachers. Fast forward more than five months later, and students still don’t have their yearbooks. Superintendent of Schools John Suttie, who also […]

SANFORD — Todd Lemay has always been a pretty determined sort of fellow. He might not say so himself, but his actions show it, family members say. Lemay, who spends his summers in Sanford and the rest of the year in Arizona, has used that determination to find a way to get on the beach […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday expressed his “deep condolences” to the family of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and all Americans following his death. Gorbachev worked closely with Bush to bring an end to the Cold War in the late 1980s and 1990s, and lauded the former president for […]