BIDDEFORD  — CourageLIVES, a treatment program for survivors of human trafficking and exploitation, has received a $10,000 grant award from the Penobscot Valley Health Association Fund of the Maine Community Foundation. With an estimated 200 to 300 girls and women trafficked in Maine each year, these funds will help further develop CourageLIVES’ Outpatient Treatment and Community-Based […]

FREEPORT — For more than a decade, Maine ports have been told that cruise ship passengers each spend a daily average of nearly $110 ashore, an economic boon that’s pumps tens of millions into the coastal Maine annually. But a new study funded by the state of Maine and its cruise industry promotion partner, CruiseMaine, found the […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police drew their guns and fired a warning shot after protesters attacked officers with sticks and rods, and brought out water cannon trucks for the first time, in an escalation in the summer-long protests that have shaken the city’s government and residents. Sunday’s main showdown took place on a […]

AUBURN — A judge is expected to hear arguments next month about whether a local man charged with murder in a shooting in the Walmart parking lot this month should be allowed bail. Gage Dalphonse, 21,  is charged with intentional or knowing murder in the killing of Jean Fournier, 41, of Turner. At the initial appearance of Dalphonse […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas and there is no evidence of the disease remaining, according to the Supreme Court. It is the fourth time that the 86-year-old justice has announced that she has been treated for cancer over the last two decades […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Eddie Money says he has stage 4 esophageal cancer. The singer known for such hits as “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight” says his fate is in “God’s hands.” Money’s comments appear in a video released Saturday from his AXS TV reality series “Real Money.” The full episode […]

ELIOT — It takes a trained eye to spot the metal sheaths enveloping electrical lines strung along Route 101 here. But to Lloyd Hendrix, they are easy to see, and each one tells a story. Hendrix, manager of process and technology for Central Maine Power, was driving the rolling hills of forest and farmland recently […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a five-year, statewide initiative by Southern Maine Community College and several other Maine institutions that aims to revolutionize the understanding of ocean ecosystems and management of marine resources. The grant to the University of Maine in Orono and the Bigelow Laboratory […]