Bob Gagne of Biddeford holds a Modena Cream Fancy pigeon at the Maine Pigeon Association show in Sanford Sunday, where there were 200 Fancy and Racing pigeons on display. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)

Kimberly Spampinato listens to relatives of her husband read a statement at her sentencing hearing Thursday at York County Superior Court in Alfred. (ROBERT F. BUKATY PHOTO/ AP)

ALFRED — Kimberly Spampinato was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in jail, with no parole, for murdering her husband, Christopher Spampinato, by setting him afire in their Wells apartment on Jan. 8. Christopher Spampinato died nine days later with burns covering more than 85 percent of his body. Justice Paul Fritzsche handed […]

ALFRED — On Wednesday, at York County Superior Court, Richard Dalli, 51, of York, pled guilty to manslaughter in the death of John Wheeler, 39, of Wells, on Sept. 2, 2008. The plea comes after a mistrial in September where the jury was reportedly hopelessly deadlocked after a two-day trial. Jury members could not decide […]

SACO — State Rep. Don Pilon is hoping to create enough interest to keep the “Support Our Troops” plate from being discontinued. The specialty license plate features an image of a yellow ribbon superimposed over the state of Maine. Along the bottom it reads, “We Support Our Troops.” Ten dollars from each plate sold goes […]

Rep. Don Pilon, D-Saco, a proponent of Maine license plates that advocate support of United States military personnel, with a prototype plate at his home in Saco Tuesday.

ALFRED — Sen. Richard Nass (R-Acton) said he will appeal a vote by the 10-member Legislative Council that rejected an effort to have the full Legislature consider a bill to change some aspects of the jail consolidation law. Nass said his bill had three parts: It would have allowed York County to use the revenue […]

Marada Cook, with her two-year-old son Eli and seven-month-old daughter Ivyn, of Litchfield, signed a banner on Saturday at Marcil Hall on the University of New England’s Biddeford campus advocating for sustainable behavior. The signing of the Environmental Commitment banner was one of the events held at the university as part of the Global Day […]

BIDDEFORD — Food is a necessity of life, but some believe that the by-products of large scale production of food could end up killing us. Corporate-controlled agricultural production and distribution in the United States, which release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, was the focus of a panel discussion Saturday at the Biddeford Campus of the […]

WATERBORO — Howe and Howe Technologies, the Eliot-based company that designs and manufactures unmanned tanks like the Ripsaw and other ground vehicles, is moving to Waterboro. Geoff Howe, who owns the company with his twin brother Michael, said Howe and Howe Technologies plans to start moving into the former Architectural Skylights building on Route 202 […]