About a year ago, Heather Walker-McConihe had just been released from jail, having served a sentence for a probation violation after relapsing in her long struggle with opiate abuse. She was working the night shift at McDonald’s for minimum wage, worried she was stuck in an unrewarding, dead-end job as she tried to stay clean. […]

LONDON (AP) — The Beatles’ psychedelic masterwork “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” has been named the most popular British album in history. The Official Charts Company said Saturday that the band’s 1967 classic is Britain’s favorite album based on physical sales, downloads and streams in the U.K. The album found the four mates from […]

Amid a nationwide shortage, Maine is looking for a few good school bus drivers. Several districts are looking to fill bus driver positions, and one of the hardest hit is Scarborough, where a seven-driver shortfall has forced the district to combine some runs and contract out two runs to Custom Coach, a private bus company. […]

LYMAN — Just over a year ago a handful of interested people got together at their local community library to explore the possibility of establishing a historical society in the small town of Lyman. According to meeting participants, attempts had been made in the past to establish such a society but, for various reasons, it never […]

ALFRED  — The Alfred Shaker Museum will host a representative from the Cape Neddick Wildlife Center in the last talk of this season’s Sid Emery Memorial Forum on Sunday, Oct. 14. The center also may let some of their furry and feathery “clients” tag along to help tell the story of preserving the health of Maine’s […]

YORK COUNTY — In a recent cybersecurity scam, smartphone users received a text from an unknown number with a message claiming a friend has written a compliment about them in a new app, according to AARP’s Fraud Watch Network. The text message contains a link that prompts them to download the specific app on their […]

WINSLOW — Four people were taken to hospitals Friday morning after a destructive two-vehicle crash on Route 137 at the intersection of North and South Reynolds roads that initially left occupants and animals trapped inside demolished vehicles, shut down the road for two hours and showered the area with wreckage and personal items. Neighbors said […]

NEWPORT — Authorities say a man armed with a sword held off police for several hours at a motel in Newport. Police say they were called to Pray’s Motel on Thursday after Louis Irish, 60, threatened a housekeeper and the motel owner with a knife. Police say the man was highly intoxicated and pulled out […]

NEW YORK — Stocks rebounded Friday, clawing back some of the week’s steep losses, but the turbulent trading of the last few days left no doubt that the relative calm the markets enjoyed all summer had been shattered. Major U.S. indexes ended the week down about 4 percent, their worst weekly loss in six months. […]

GREENE — At George Stanley’s place on Route 202, there are almost too many doors to count: garage doors, doors made of fencing and doors constructed of plywood and nails. On Thursday, working in the driving rain, the 71-year-old Stanley moved from one door to the next, assessing the damage and the losses. “This was […]