BIDDEFORD — The Model United Nations club at Biddeford High School is a home for diplomacy, negotiation, and education for students. The club attends two prestigious conferences a year and also hosts one smaller practice conference for schools in the area. The conferences model the actual United Nations negotiations. Students are assigned a country and […]

NAME — George Herbert Walker Bush, born June 12, 1924. EDUCATION — Yale University, bachelor’s degree in economics. EXPERIENCE — Navy (1942-1945). Founded several oil companies before representing Texas in the U.S. House (1967-71). Ambassador to the United Nations (1971-73). Republican National Committee chairman (1973-74). Chief U.S. liaison officer to China (1974-76). CIA director (1976-77). […]

BIDDEFORD — The following individuals were arrested or issued a summons by Biddeford Police from Sept. 15 to Sept. 21, 2018: • Rose E. Chase, 28, of North Waterboro, was arrested for operating a motor vehicle under the influence (alcohol). • Warren E. Cortese, 54 of Biddeford, was arrested for an outstanding warrant. • Kristin […]

BIDDEFORD POOL — A special retreat at the Marie Joseph Spiritual Center in Biddeford Pool will focus on Advent and a renewal of faith. The “What are you waiting  for?” one-day retreat begins at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, at the center and wraps up at 3:30 p.m. The retreat is being led by Diane […]

A Limington woman arrested Thursday in Windham after police discovered a suspected mobile meth-making setup in the car she was driving was ordered held Friday on $5,000 bail at the Cumberland County Jail. Superior Court Justice Thomas Warren imposed the cash bail amount along with a host of conditions of release during her first court […]

ARUNDEL — An investigation by the Maine Attorney General’s Office has concluded that York County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Steve Thistlewood and Deputy Heath Mains acted in self defense in connection with the shooting death of Arundel resident Chad Dionne, 37, on May 29, 2017. “It is our determination that when Sgt. Thistlewood and Deputy Mains […]

SACO — For the last decade, the 100-foot-high wind turbine atop York Hill has greeted motorists as they traveled from Main Street in Biddeford to Main Street in Saco. What has become a familiar site will be no longer, as the city of Saco has moved forward with tearing down the turbine. The wind turbine […]

A Limington woman was arrested on felony drug charges after Windham police and the Maine drug enforcement officers discovered a one-pot mobile meth lab during a traffic stop along Route 302 on Thursday morning. Cmdr. Scott Pelletier of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said local police were alerted after a loss prevention worker at the […]

BOSTON (AP) — A Muslim girl in Massachusetts has received hundreds of letters of support after receiving threatening notes at her elementary school. The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said that as of Thursday, it had received more than 500 notes from across the country for the 10-year-old. The girl, whose name […]