KENNEBUNK — A resident of Kennebunk was able to get an early start on his Christmas shopping this year after winning big on a Maine Lottery scratch-off ticket. John Patuleia of Kennebunk purchased a $5 “Double Sided Dollars” scratch-off ticket at Cumberland Farms in Kennebunk and it resulted in him winning $20,000 from the Maine […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” are now co-hosts and spouses. The network says the couple wed Saturday in a small ceremony attended by family and friends in Washington. They tied the knot at the National Archives with U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, of Maryland, officiating. Scarborough and Brzezinski […]

CORNVILLE — Speed and poor road conditions are being looked at as contributing factors in an accident that killed a Skowhegan man and injured two others Sunday morning, police said. Gregory Griffeth, 43, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Shadagee Road, which is also Route 43, said Chief Deputy James Ross […]

YORK COUNTY — A free screening and discussion series about the opioid crisis is nearing at locations in Biddeford and Sanford. The film and discussions are part of the next phase of the Recovery in Maine program, which is confronting the opioid crisis in our state. Recovery in Maine is a partnership between Maine Behavioral […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — With just a day to go, NASA’s InSight spacecraft aimed for a bull’s-eye touchdown on Mars, zooming in like an arrow with no turning back. InSight’s journey of six months and 300 million miles (482 million kilometers) comes to a precarious grand finale Monday afternoon. The robotic geologist — designed […]

BRUNSWICK — It might sound like a moonshot, but a group of science and space enthusiasts wants Maine to become America’s leader in sending tiny satellites into space. The tentative plan for the ambitious project is to use a pair of former air bases as the homes of an operation that would launch CubeSat satellites, […]

KENNEBUNKPORT — The following individuals were issued a summons or arrested by Kennebunkport Police from Oct. 27  to Nov. 5, 2018: • Donovan Burke, 50, of Kennebunkport, was arrested for violating conditions of bail after officers contacted him on Elm Street. He was remanded to the York County Jail where he was booked on the charge […]

A lobster boat sank off the Jonesport coast in Down East Maine on Sunday. Two people who were on board abandoned ship and made it safely onto another fishing boat, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. There were no injuries reported. “There were two people on board the fishing vessel Overtimer. The boat was loaded […]

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian warplanes attacked rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks on Sunday, as Syrian officials said more than 100 people were treated at hospitals following a suspected poison gas attack by rebels in the northern city of Aleppo. The latest wave of shelling and airstrikes in northern […]

BIDDEFORD — The official unveiling ceremony for the inaugural class inducted into the Biddeford Hall of Fame in 2018 will be conducted Monday morning in Biddeford. The event will begin at 11 a.m. in the Biddeford City Council Chambers at Biddeford City Hall and plaques of those inducted will be unveiled at that time before […]