PORTLAND — University of New England graduates were told Saturday, “You can get there from here.” The university conferred 1,247 associate, bachelor, master and doctorate degrees at the event, which marked the graduation of 120 physicians. As graduates filed into the Cumberland County Civic Center Saturday morning, friends and family members snapped photos and cheered […]

Stephen Scipione had been keeping up with the news and knew about the little boy whose lifeless body was found in the woods off Dennett Road in South Berwick a week ago today. Late Wednesday, the boy was identified as 6-year-old Camden Pierce Hughes. His mother, Julianne McCrery of Irving, Texas, was charged with second […]

ALFRED — Most Tuesdays there’s a crew of volunteers who make their way to 118 Shaker Hill Road, to the Alfred Shaker Museum, to work on restoration of the building. The volunteers gather week after week, except in the dead of winter. This past Tuesday, the crew was involved in the intricacies of installing a […]

Earl Morrison points out the original location of the Alfred Shaker Museum, before the building was moved down the road, on a map inside the museum’s current location on Tuesday. (Jeff Lagasse/Journal Tribune)

John Hogan III, a 56-year-old Acton man, was arrested Thursday by State Fire Marshal’s Office investigators in connection with six fires set within a span of a few hours in April. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

ALFRED — A 56-year-old Acton man was arrested Thursday by State Fire Marshal’s Office investigators in connection with six fires set within a span of a few hours one night last month. Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said two investigators took John Hogan III into custody upon his release from Spring Harbor Hospital at […]

This 2005 file booking photo provided by the Dallas County Jail shows Julianne McCrery of Irving, Texas. She has been charged in the death of her son, whose body was found Saturday in South Berwick. (AP WIREPHOTO/Dallas County Jail)

Camden Pierce Hughes is pictured at a restaurant in this photo from a posting on the Facebook page of his mother, Julianne McCrery. (FACEBOOK IMAGE)

Darrel Bates, Gail Holmes and Melissa Holmes, all of South Berwick, lit candles Tuesday night at a South Berwick vigil to remember the boy whose remains were found on Dennett Road Saturday. Maine State Police are continuing their investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call 657-3030. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)

BOSTON — Authorities say a mother from Texas is responsible for the death of her son ”“ the little boy whose lifeless body was found in the woods off Dennett Road in South Berwick ”“ and whose identity remained a mystery for five days. Julianne McCrery, 42, of Irving, Texas, questioned Wednesday in Concord, Mass., […]