LIMERICK – This community is hosting a full slate of events to get residents and neighbors in the mod for the holiday season. There are events each day starting on Saturday and winding down on Sunday, Dec. 2. Perhaps the busiest day is Saturday, Dec. 1, which begins with Breakfast with Frosty at the Peppermill […]

NEW YORK (AP) — If Michael B. Jordan’s path to this moment was condensed and edited, it might look, appropriately, like a training montage. Images of Jordan cutting his teeth on the Baltimore streets of “The Wire” and the Texas football fields of “Friday Night Lights,” followed by hints of a soaring talent (“Red Tails,” […]

The international ferry’s best year in Portland will likely be its last. Almost 50,200 people took the direct, high-speed Cat ferry between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, this year, a 20 percent increase from 2017 and the highest passenger count since Canadian firm Bay Ferries Ltd. began operating the ferry three years ago. The city […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. —Early-season snow and cold temperatures are helping New England ski resorts open early, carving out a blizzard of a start to the 2018-19 season. Many hitting the slopes are finding great November conditions across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. The early-season snow bounty is being combined with tens of millions of dollars in […]

ROME (AP) — The Leaning Tower of Pisa isn’t leaning so much anymore. After more than two decades of efforts to straighten it, engineers say the famed Tuscan bell tower has recovered four centimeters (1.57 inches) more and is in better structural health than predicted. ANSA news agency quotes a consultant to the international committee […]

The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office says it has solved the mystery of how an ATM ended up in the woods on Deer Isle. The ATM was discovered around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday by a woman on her morning walk, the sheriff’s office said. Detective Steve McFarland investigated, but could not figure out how the machine, which […]

WATERVILLE — A local woman is asking for help locating her dog after it escaped from her car Wednesday afternoon during a crash on Interstate 95 and ran off. Judy Maheu said she was headed south toward home Wednesday and missed her exit at mile marker 127, so she pulled into a turn-around in the […]

ROCKLAND — David Bragdon’s 30-year odyssey to find his birth parents finally came to fruition this fall when he met his father for the first time. “It was absolutely incredible,” Bragdon said. “Looking at him, I knew he was my father. I felt it, too. It was surreal.” Bragdon said it became particularly important to […]

BIDDEFORD — Students at St. James Catholic School in Biddeford will join an international movement by performing a simple act of generosity next week. On “Giving Tuesday” this coming week, St. James students will participate in a day set aside globally as an opportunity to help others through the gift of time, donations, goods or […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts clashed Wednesday in an extraordinary public dispute over the independence of America’s judiciary, with Roberts bluntly rebuking the president for denouncing a judge who rejected his migrant asylum policy as an “Obama judge.” There’s no such thing, Roberts declared in a strongly worded statement […]