About 9,000 Maine businesses and homes remained without power Sunday night after a powerful windstorm swept through the state Saturday, knocking down trees and power lines. At its peak, about 80,000 customers statewide had lost power. Central Maine Power Co. reported 4,983 customers without electricity at 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Crews from CMP worked overnight and […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man trying to stop a shooting attack on a Florida yoga studio said Sunday that he wrestled with the attacker after his gun jammed, a move credited with giving others time to flee the rampage that killed two people and wounded six others. Yoga student Joshua Quick spoke to ABC’s […]

SACO  — Senior Mary Halle has been named as Thornton Academy’s recipient of the 2018-2019 Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award. TA Headmaster Rene M. Menard said that to be named a DAR Good Citizen, a student must demonstrate the qualities of dependability (including truthfulness, loyalty, and punctuality); service (to include cooperation, courtesy, and […]

Richard Heffron’s Facebook status was written in all caps. Within an hour of its posting, Shaylynn Pierce received a screenshot from a family member. “IM GONNA RUN YOU DOWN EVERY CHANCE I CAN TODAY AND TOMORROW AND THE NEXT DAY AND THE NEXT,” the status read. When Pierce read the words on her ex-husband’s Facebook […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has been acting like a candidate on the ballot this week, staging daily double-header rallies and blasting out ads for Republicans up for election on Tuesday. Given the stakes for his presidency, he might as well be. A knot of investigations. Partisan gridlock. A warning shot for his re-election […]

CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Police say a Wellington man was driving drunk on Route 27 on Friday when his vehicle left the road, vaulted over Bracket Brook Road and struck a utility pole. Sean Glynn, 30, was heading north in a 1993 Honda at about 9 a.m. when the accident occurred, , Chief Mark Lopez wrote in […]

A windstorm with gusts of 50 to 60 mph swept across Maine on Saturday, knocking out electricity to more than 67,000 customers as trees and limbs came down on power lines. As of 8:12 p.m. Saturday, Central Maine Power reported 34,593 customers without electricity. Many of the outages, 6,829, occurred in York County, where Old […]

A 15-year-old Standish boy was injured and a man is in police custody following a hit-and-run motor vehicle crash in Standish on Friday night. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said Timothy A. Smith, 60, of Windham was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence and leaving the scene of a personal injury crash. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Time marches ahead, usually. It’s in retreat this weekend in the United States. At 2 a.m. local time Sunday, daylight saving time ended, and standard time returned for most people across the country. It means an extra hour of sleep, perchance to dream, for one night. The shift means it’s lighter earlier in […]

SACO — Residents of Saco will be asked on Tuesday whether to approve six charter amendments, including one that would have the mayor preside over the school board. The city’s mayor is an elected position that presides over the City Council and serves as a non-voting, ex-officio member of the school board. The school board […]