PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 97-year-old woman who was the oldest victim of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre will be laid to rest at the end of a wrenching, weeklong series of funerals. Rose Mallinger’s funeral was scheduled for Friday. She was among 11 victims gunned down in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Her […]

From the moment he heard the call, firefighter Hale Fitzgerald thought this one could be serious. A fire had erupted in a home on Kincaid Street in South Portland, and a woman might be trapped upstairs. “It was one of those calls that when you hear (it), you only know that it sounded like the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hey hey, my my, Neil Young is calling Daryl Hannah his wife. The 72-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and the 57-year-old “Splash” actress had been utterly mum on the subject of their marriage since reports that they wed in California in August. But Young said in a pro-gun-control post […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH – Five candidates are running for three available two-year seats on the town council including current town councilors Kenneth Blow, Michael Tousignant and Shawn O’Neill; former town councilor Roxanne Frenette and community volunteer Israel Collins. • Blow, 56, is an operations manager at Casella Waste Services. He has served on the town […]

YORK COUNTY — Falling leaves take a significant effort to rake up, place in bio-degradable bags and haul away, but for some beleaguered homeowners, a helping hand may be on the way soon in some communities in York County. Two cities in the county have scheduled pickup days for discarded leaves and some other surrounding […]

ALFRED – A jury has returned a guilty verdict against a Sanford man charged with six counts of unlawful sexual contact and one count of visual sexual aggression against a child in connection with incidents in 2009, when the victim was 11. Nicholas Westgate, 37, of Sanford was remanded in custody at York County Jail […]

A section of U.S. Route 1 in Bucksport was shut down by police Wednesday afternoon after a man armed with what police thought might be an explosive device barricaded himself inside his home. Police officers were initially told the man was armed with a hand grenade, said Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine State Police, […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man awoke from a medically-induced coma just in time for the birth of his son after his wife, at 39 weeks pregnant, saved him from cardiac arrest. Ashley Goette says she awoke Oct. 16 to hear her husband, Andrew Goette, gasping for air in their West St. Paul home. She […]

The body pulled from the Kennebec River a week ago has been identified as that of Mark Johnston, 64, of Richmond, who was reported missing Oct. 25 after he failed to return home after he said he planned to move his boat. The Department of Marine Resources announced Thursday in a news release that the […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH – The Old Orchard Beach Police Department has released the names of of individuals arrested or issued a summons from Sept. 3 to Sept. 15: • Molly Wagner, 27, of Biddeford, was issued a summons for operating after suspension at 4:53 p.m. on Sept. 3. • John Millett, 48, of Old Orchard […]