The body that was found Monday in Greenland Cove near Bremen has been identified as that of 63-year-old Glenn Murdoch of Bremen. The state medical examiner confirmed Wednesday that it was Murdoch and that his cause of death was drowning. The crew of a commercial fishing vessel found Murdoch’s body around 11 a.m. about 2 nautical miles […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that the U.S. already has “very, very strong background checks” for gun purchases in the latest sign that he is backing away from throwing his political support behind changes to the system that are opposed by the powerful gun lobby. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, […]

PORTER — Maine State Police say a Parsonsfield man died Wednesday morning when his 2005 Ford Explorer slammed into a tree on Kennard Hill Road. Dillon St. Pierre, 28, died at the scene, said Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland in a news release issued on Wednesday afternoon. The crash was reported about 7:30 a.m. […]

SANFORD – York County Community Action Corporation plans to convert a former children’s day care center into eight apartments in Sanford. The Sanford Planning Board is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the proposal tonight when it meets at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 919 Main St. If approved, the conversion of the former […]

Maine State Police were looking for a Litchfield man late Tuesday night in connection with the reported kidnapping of his girlfriend. Joshua Tilley fled his mother’s house at 746 Dead River Road in Litchfield on Tuesday night. Tilley is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds. He has brown hair and eyes. Tilley […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry King is seeking a divorce from his seventh wife, Shawn King, after 22 years. The 85-year-old talk show host filed a petition to end the marriage Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Larry King and Shawn King, then a singer and TV host, married in 1997 and have two adult […]

Maine State Police say a man wearing a black mask and claiming to have a gun robbed a pizza shop in Pittsfield on Tuesday afternoon. State police said the man entered Richie’s Pizza on South Maine Street around mid-afternoon and told the clerk he was armed with weapon. No shots were fired and no one […]

About 10 percent of the 35,000 adults who have gained health care coverage since Maine expanded Medicaid in January are receiving treatment for opioid use disorder. Health care experts have predicted that Medicaid expansion will result in 70,000 additional Mainers enrolling in the program by the end of 2019. If current trends hold, that would amount […]

Portland is being sued by the company that sought to develop the $85 million “Midtown” project in the city’s Bayside neighborhood, a project that would have been built on land that was once occupied by industrial scrap yards along Somerset Street. The Federated Cos. filed a 78-page complaint in U.S. District Court in Portland on […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Athletes from all over the world will descend on Old Orchard Beach on Sunday once again for the annual IRONMAN 70.3 Maine triathlon. Race officials are busy preparing for the big event, and the town has listed traffic impacts, road closures and parking lot closures for the upcoming days. The town’s […]