BIDDEFORD — April showers, with some help from local volunteers, have brought spring flowers to the city’s downtown. Instead of sleeping in on Saturday, volunteers with the Downtown Development Commission and the youth group Go Greene woke up early and hit Main Street by 8 a.m. By 10:30 a.m., Donna and Bill Durkin were planting […]

BIDDEFORD — Mike Payeur earned a Purple Heart for his service in the war in Iraq, as a member of a U.S. Army unit that lost 110 fellow soldiers during its deployment in 2006-07. It’s his mother, though, who he thinks deserves an award. Pam Payeur is the founder of The Warrior Legacy Foundation’s Wounded […]

Brianna Keely, 5, was the youngest volunteer who helped beautify Biddeford’s Main Street on Saturday. Keely is the daughter of Brian Keely, who is chairman of the Downtown Development Commission. DINA MENDROS/ JOURNAL TRIBUNE

U.S. military veteran Mike Payeur, at his parents’ Biddeford home Tuesday, shows a poster that commemorates the 110 soldiers who lost their lives in combat as part of Payeur’s unit, the 3rd Grey Wolf Brigade Combat team, 1st Calvary Division. JEFF LAGASSE/ JOURNAL TRIBUNE

President Obama has yet another uninvited guest during his statement on the financial overhaul.

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LOS ANGELES — First-quarter profits tripled for the nation’s banking industry as big banks recovered their footing, the government reported Thursday. But the news was not all good for the industry. Troubles at smaller lenders swelled the number of problem banks to nearly 10 percent of all institutions, according to the report by the Federal […]