OLD ORCHARD BEACH  — The Old Orchard Beach Police Department has released the names of individuals arrested or issued a summons from Aug. 13 to Aug. 19. • Annalee Curtiss, 23, of Old Orchard Beach, was issued a summons for sale and use of drug paraphernalia at 1:34 a.m. And arrested for burglary and terrorizing […]

SACO — A motorcyclist  from Buxton was transported to the Maine Medical Center Trauma Unit on Wednesday night after an accident at the intersection of Buxton and Jenkins roads. Police and firefighters responded to several reports of a crash at the intersection of Buxton and Jenkins roads around 7 p.m. on Wednesday, said Deputy Police Chief […]

SPRINGVALE — A railroad car that sunk has been the subject of folklore for nearly 150 years and it’s been one of those curiosities that, to some degree, has fascinated those who are familiar with Deering Pond, where the rail car sunk. Now however, the use of technology has pinpointed what happened to a rail […]

Kristin Westra’s friends and family are in disbelief. Three days after the 47-year-old public school teacher vanished from her North Yarmouth home, the people who know and love her are struggling to understand how the committed mother and teacher who was known to be warm and vivacious could have disappeared. Police and game wardens found […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents interviewed one of the three women who have accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct as Republicans and Democrats quarreled over whether the bureau would have enough time and freedom to conduct a thorough investigation before a high-stakes vote on his nomination to the nation’s highest court. The […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kate Hudson says her baby girl is here. The “Almost Famous” actress announced Wednesday on her Instagram account that Rani (RAH-nee) Rose Hudson Fujikawa was born Tuesday. It’s the third child but first girl for Hudson, and her first baby with musician boyfriend Danny Fujikawa. The photo she posted simply showed the birthdate […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate braced for a crucial initial vote Friday on Brett Kavanaugh’s tottering Supreme Court nomination after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set his polarized chamber on a schedule to decide an election-season battle that has consumed the nation. A showdown roll call over confirmation seemed likely over the weekend. McConnell, R-Ky., cemented […]

TORONTO (AP) — When Bradley Cooper saw Lady Gaga perform “La Vie en Rose” at a fundraiser at the home of entrepreneur Sean Parker, it wasn’t one of the important moments along the road to making “A Star Is Born.” It was, Cooper says, THE moment. “She demolished the room,” he recalls, still wide-eyed about […]

ABILENE, Texas (AP) — At one point in her then-very young life, Barbara Pierce Bush thought that everyone’s grandfather, George H.W. Bush included, got an inauguration. “I didn’t know what it meant to be president, so I thought that when you were a grandfather, you got an inauguration,” she said, recently speaking with her sister, […]

A Portland man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing a young girl for years, the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. Kevin Carey, 49, was convicted on 15 counts by a Cumberland County Jury following a two-day trial in September. He was indicted in 2017 on 15 counts of […]