Teacher Ann Marie Henderson holds her son Aidan on Tuesday while making preparations to her first-grade classroom at Jameson School in Old Orchard Beach. Next week marks the beginning of school for students across York County. JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune

BIDDEFORD — Raising concerns about privacy and identity theft,  the Biddeford School Committee has joined several other school boards around the state in asking the Maine State Legislature to rescind a law that requires school districts to ask parents for their children’s Social Security numbers. On Tuesday, the School Committee passed a resolution asking the […]

MINNEAPOLIS Justice Department signs offon United-Continental deal The Justice Department said Friday that it has no more antitrust concerns about the deal that would combine United and Continental into the world’s largest airline. To win that approval, the airlines had to open the door to Southwest Airlines at Continental’s hub in Newark, N.J., where it […]

A rare calico lobster is on display at the Portland Lobster Co. on Commercial Street. The creature is sporting a mottled orange and black shell rather than the usual deep green and red. The lobster was caught by Larry and Crystal Dunne, who fish for lobster out of Portland. The Saco couple pulled it up […]

Martin Dannenberg, who was Jewish, discovered a copy of the anti-Semitic document in 1945.

Raymond R. Fortier, 24, was sentenced to nine years in prison for starting a fire that consumed a multi-unit apartment building in Springvale on Jan. 6, 2009. Fortier was sentenced Thursday by York County Superior Court Justice Paul Fritzsche to 18 years, with all but nine years suspended. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)

ALFRED — A 24-year-old Springvale man is due to spend the next nine years in prison for setting a fire that consumed a four-unit apartment building in his neighborhood, sending 14 tenants into the bitter cold in January 2009. York County Superior Court Justice Paul Fritzsche Thursday sentenced Raymond R. Fortier to 18 years, with all […]

SANFORD — Maine drug agents have arrested five people for allegedly trafficking in cocaine, crack and oxycodone and said the crackdown will continue. Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Supervisor Steve Borst on Wednesday said several drug investigations are ongoing, and more arrests are likely in the coming weeks. “We’re kind of hammering Sanford. We’re hoping to […]

Mohammad Rahman’s case now is a matter of someone with an expired visa who wants to stay in the U.S., his attorney says.