A New York man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for murdering an Augusta couple early on Christmas Day in 2015. David W. Marble Jr., 32, of Rochester was convicted in July of the intentional and knowing murders of Eric Williams, 35, and Bonnie Royer, 26. Marble was given concurrent sentences of 75 years in prison […]

BIDDEFORD — Derek Volk never served in the military, yet every day he’s reminded how important the contributions of those who did are by visitors who stop and visit his “Volk Packaging Corporation Heroes Wall” in Biddeford. Volk, one of the owners of Volk Packaging Corporation in the city’s industrial park, created the tribute to […]

BLUE HILL – Police in Maine say they have identified a body found in Blue Hill as a 37-year-old woman who went missing during the summer. The State Medical Examiner’s Office used dental records to identify the body as Jessica Grindle of Blue Hill on Thursday night. Police say additional work is still needed to […]

ALFRED — An attorney for Carol Sharrow entered pleas of not guilty and not criminally responsible to manslaughter and more than a dozen other charges Friday  in connection with the hit-and-run death of a West Newfield man as she drove off a Sanford ball field in June. Police said Sharrow drove her maroon Honda through […]

ALFRED — Nine people have been formally charged with operating methamphetamine labs stemming from two separate incidents on two August days in two towns some 12 miles apart. A York County grand jury handed up indictments against eight people, at least three from the same family, allegedly involved in a meth lab operation in Hollis […]

AUGUSTA — Normally, it’s rude to laugh at someone’s misfortune. But an Augusta teen hopes the nation laughs on Sunday night at a painful incident recorded this summer. Benjamin Lucarelli, 17, was at the rope swing at Pinkham Pond in Alna with friends. Lucarelli got a running start toward the pond, holding firmly onto the […]

  Students in the Dayton Consolidated School Chorus sing at an assembly in honor of Veterans Day at the school on Friday.

WEST KENNEBUNK — In connecting rescued animals with military veterans and their families over Veterans Day Weekend, the Animal Welfare Society is helping to create second chances and new beginnings. This weekend, AWS pays tribute to those who have served on behalf of all Americans by offering a 15 percent reduction for all adoption of […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — At 11 a.m. on Sunday, bells will toll across the country, a solemn reminder of those who lost their lives during World War I through the nationwide Bells of Peace project. Locally, bells will toll at a ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park on Heath Street in Old Orchard Beach. Sunday marks […]

  Fourth-grader Blake Hashey displays a poster he made to thank U.S. Marine Corps veterans during a Veteran’s Day observance at Biddeford Intermediate School on Friday. Students invited veterans to join them for lunch and watched a flag-folding demonstration given by members of the Patriot Riders of America, Chapter 1 during an assembly.  Students serenaded […]