Mainers can clear their medicine cabinets of unwanted drugs and dispose of them safely at more than 100 collection sites on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The effort, coordinated by most of Maine’s police departments, the Maine Department of Public Safety and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, will be the largest collection of […]

SACO — What are some of the issues gubernatorial candidates want to address first if elected into office? Answers from candidates include helping small businesses prosper, creating jobs and making electricity and health care more affordable. Four candidates for governor ”“ Libby Mitchell, Paul LePage, Shawn Moody and Eliot Cutler ”“ participated in a forum […]

Gubernatorial candidate Elizabeth “Libby” Mitchell, right, answers a question Wednesday evening as opponents Shawn Moody, center, and Paul LePage listen. The four candidates for governor participated in a public political discussion at the Southern Maine SportsZone in Saco, as part of the Biddeford-Saco Chamber of Commerce Business Expo. Independent candidate Kevin Scott did not attend. […]

A nearly $50 million plan to close Sea Road School in Kennebunk and undertake major renovations at three other district schools was presented by the Regional School Unit 21 school board Monday night. The board is proposing an estimated $34 million renovation of Kennebunk High School and $13.4 million renovation of Kennebunkport Consolidated School and […]

ALFRED — Kelly Gorham’s remains were buried in a shallow grave two feet deep, about 44 inches long and about 36 inches wide in Stewartstown, N.H., a New Hampshire State Police sergeant testified Monday. Jurors Monday were shown a photograph of her body in the shallow grave, in the sixth day of the state’s case […]

SANFORD — In the late cartoonist Charles Schulz’s classic Halloween special, the character Linus spends the night hidden in a pumpkin patch, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to swoop down out of the sky and bestow gifts upon the faithful. It is fortunate that the patch in which Linus hid was not maintained by one […]

Minot Holmes, father of pumpkin-grower Matt Holmes, sits next to a giant pumpkin Friday evening while watching passers-by gawk at the gargantuan gourds that lined the roads of Gowen Park in Sanford. A giant pumpkin weigh-off kicked off the annual Harvest Daze celebration, which continued into Saturday. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

ALFRED — Jason Twardus stated, in August of 2007 after his ex-fiancée, Kelly Gorham, was reported missing that he “absolutely adored” her. Twardus is on trial for allegedly killing his ex-fiancée, Kelly Gorham. Gorham, a 30-year-old nursing student who lived in Alfred, was reported missing Aug. 8, 2007, when she did not report for a […]

Aldeyne Friel speaks about being a foster grandparent, part of a Senior Corps program, at Biddeford Primary School Thursday. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — When 65-year-old Aldeyne Friel is in the Biddeford Primary School second-grade classroom of Krysten Gorrivan, many of the students gather around her asking for help and vying for her attention. Students go to Nana Friel, as she’s known in the classroom, for help with their reading, writing or mathematics. They also go to […]