Jeanne Hardy, dancing under the stage name “Jamileh,” performs Friday night at the Multicultural Dance Festival at Biddeford City Theater. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

Steven Kelley, who operates the website leafpeepers.com, holds up reddened leaves to the sunlight Tuesday near a spot on the Eastern Trail in Biddeford. JEFF LAGASSE/ Journal Tribune

BIDDEFORD — On Friday, the U.S. Attorney for Maine announced that eight people who worked at Mexican restaurants in Maine were charged with criminal complaints of possession of false documents and/or unlawful presence in the U.S. According to a statement from Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Clark, Santos Herasmo Elias-Lopez, Esteban Lopez-Cruz, Salvador Carmona-Ramirez, Enrique Ruiz-De […]

SANFORD — Sen. Susan Collins is looking for a one-year “time-out” on the implementation of some new federal regulations while the nation continues coping with a downed economy and millions of unemployed who still cannot find work. And in the midst of a fiscal crisis with the national debt at $14.3 trillion, Collins said she […]

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chats with Sanford Springvale Rotarian Elias Thomas Thursday while Rotary’s District Governor Gary Speers looks on. (Tammy Wells/Journal Tribune)

KENNEBUNK — Five hundred Kennebunk Elementary School students, led by Miles the Turnpike Moose, crossed the Eastern Trail Bridge over I-95 Wednesday, at a ribbon cutting ceremony in celebration of its opening earlier this month. Eastern Trail Alliance members and Maine Turnpike Authority employees cut the ribbon in front of an audience of students, teachers […]

The Eastern Trail bridge spans across the turnpike in Kennebunk on Wednesday. It opened earlier this month and a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate its completion was held Wednesday with the students of Kennebunk Elementary School participating. Right: Andy Greif, executive director of the Biddeford-based Community Bicycle Center, completes an inaugural trek across the Eastern […]

A Kennebunkport firefighter blocks off the intersection of Wildes District and Turbats Creek roads Tuesday. Two sewer pump repairmen were discovered dead in a septic tank at the Lodge at Turbats Creek, according to authorities. (MATT KIERNAN/Journal Tribune)

KENNEBUNKPORT — Two employees of a Monmouth sewer pump repair company were found dead in a septic tank at the Lodge at Turbat’s Creek Tuesday morning, according to Kennebunkport Police Chief Craig Sanford. Police received a call early that morning from an employee of Stevens Electric and Pump Service in Monmouth, who had sent the […]

SPRINGVALE — Former First Lady Barbara Bush and Owen Wells of the Libra Foundation sat in rocking chairs and read stories Monday to a lot of little children. The former first lady read about Bob the rooster, who mimicked many barnyard animals before he finally learned to crow. Wells read about the Little Blue Truck […]