LONDON (AP) — A year after it became an unwilling focus for Britain’s #MeToo movement, the Old Vic Theatre says it is trying to stamp out abuses of power in all workplaces. The London theater company once led by actor Kevin Spacey said Monday that 20 cultural organizations have joined it in appointing workplace “guardians,” […]

WESTBROOK — For centuries, indigenous people lived undisturbed in the area between Sebago Lake and Casco Bay, their livelihood tied to the Presumpscot River and its bounty of salmon, bass, trout and other sea-run fish. When Col. Thomas Westbrook, who later had a city named after him, and other European settlers built dams on the […]

YORK COUNTY —  Families whose children have received care at The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center have joined hospital leaders, lawmakers, Gov. Paul R. LePage and Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap in celebrating the availability of a new specialty license plate benefitting the children’s hospital. The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital registration plate […]

A man was killed in a motorcycle crash on Harrison Road in Naples a few minutes after midnight Sunday. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said the man was dead when officers and emergency medical technicians arrived at the scene. The man was not wearing a helmet. No other vehicles or people were involved in the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when they were students at Yale has agreed to cooperate with an FBI investigation, her lawyer said. Deborah Ramirez’s lawyer, John Clune, said Saturday that agents want to interview Ramirez, who said Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a […]

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The phone call telling Cher she was a Kennedy Center honoree was certainly welcome — but she admits she wanted to get it earlier. The Grammy, Emmy and Oscar winner, whose ABBA-tribute album “Dancing Queen” was just released, acknowledged she’d long hoped for that call. She said she “wanted to […]

FREEPORT — He’d heard his mother crying behind the closed bedroom door one too many times. She had had a child out of wedlock 18 years earlier. The church had excommunicated her. He was the child. Several of his friends had private grievances of their own with the Catholic clergy of Waterville, then a powerful […]

A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a pickup truck early Saturday afternoon on Route 26 in Gray. Bruce Smith, 56, of Standish was riding a 2011 Can-Am Spyder when he failed to stop at a stop sign and ran into the side of a Ford F-350, driven by Ryan Glidden, 37, of Gray, […]

Two people were arrested on charges of trafficking fentanyl after they were stopped Friday on Interstate 295 in Portland. Maine State Police arrested Jacob Ingraham, 22, of Jefferson and Hannah Hewes, 20, of Wiscasset after a search of their vehicle, which was stopped about 1:30 a.m. by officers from Troop G and the Pro-Active Criminal […]

Vandals damaged a hayfield sometime late Thursday night or Friday morning at the Sabbathday Village Shaker Farm in New Gloucester. A post on the Shaker’s Facebook page included photos of deep tire tracks left in the field. “Authorities were contacted, but unfortunately very little can be done unless the perpetrators are caught,” the post read. […]