BIDDEFORD  — Republican Scott Normandeau, a consultant living in Arundel, is challenging incumbent Susan Deschambault, D-Biddeford, a retired social worker with the Maine Department of Corrections, for the right to represent State Senate District 32 in November. Senate District 32 includes Alfred, Arundel, Biddeford, Dayton, Kennebunkport, Lyman. Deschambault, who is the completing her first full […]

LEBANON — Police say a traffic stop on Saturday in Lebanon led to the discovery of an array of drugs, an arrest and the prospect of more suspects being taken into custody. The roadside investigation turned up a quantity of what police believe was heroin and fentanyl, crystal methamphetamine, prescription pills, drug packaging materials, a […]

SANFORD — Classes at the new Sanford High School and Regional  Technical Center have been delayed for one day. Classes will start at the new school on Wednesday, Oct. 10, Superintendent David Theoharides has announced. The first student day at the school, located on Alumni Drive off Main Street, had been scheduled for Tuesday, but […]

SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — The site of a devastating accident that killed two pedestrians and 18 occupants of a limousine headed to a birthday party, including four sisters, is a known danger spot that has long worried locals, according to a manager of the store that sits at the intersection where the accident happened. The […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as the 114th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, after a wrenching debate over sexual misconduct and judicial temperament that shattered the Senate, captivated the nation and ushered in an acrimonious new level of polarization — now encroaching on the court that the 53-year-old judge may well […]

AUGUSTA — Her grandmother’s living room door was always open, but on that cold early February afternoon in 1970 it was closed. From behind it came the muffled voices of their grandparents, aunts and uncles, discussing what to do with the six children, effectively orphaned days earlier when a jack failed, crushing their father under […]

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s Chuck Todd, who is running a “Meet the Press” film festival this weekend, says news executives are going to have to discuss before the 2020 election the extent to which President Donald Trump will dominate their coverage. Trump has proven, both in his 2016 campaign and presidency, the ability to […]

A Winslow man was killed late Friday night when his car hit a moose on a highway in northern Maine. Donnie Wilcox, 54, died when his Subaru struck a bull moose in the southbound travel lane of Interstate 95 in the Penobscot County town of Medway, according to Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department […]

AUGUSTA — A Skowhegan man accused of attempting to strangle his girlfriend in Gardiner pleaded guilty Tuesday to domestic violence terrorizing and terrorizing in connection with the incident on July 24. John S. Sheets, 51, had an aggravated assault charge dismissed in exchange for his plea at the Capital Judicial Center. He was ordered to […]