WASHINGTON, D.C. — A boost from U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree has helped Maine organization CEI to receive a $600,000 federal grant that will allow Junora, a manufacturing company in Biddeford, to create 30 new jobs in the city. The funding was awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Community Economic Development Program, which Pingree […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest broadcasters and cable news networks are clearing their daytime schedules Thursday for coverage of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing involving Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused him of sexual assault when they were high school students in the 1980s. With the […]

LITTLE COLORADO RIVER GORGE, Ariz. (AP) — Like a scene out of a high-octane action movie that he would star in, Will Smith celebrated his 50th birthday Tuesday by successfully bungee jumping from a helicopter near the Grand Canyon. Cameras, which captured the stunt for a livestream on YouTube , showed the actor hooked to a harness […]

A federal judge has awarded $1.1 million to a woman who says she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a former Maine State Prison guard. The woman alleged in a lawsuit that the guard, Joshua Dall-Leighton, assaulted her several times in a prison van while taking her from the Southern Maine Re-entry Center in Alfred to […]

SACO – Four school board members are up for re-election, with one running unopposed. Only residents in odd-numbered wards will be voting for school board candidates. School board terms run for three years. Current School Board Member Garrett Abrahmson is running unopposed for the Ward 1 school board seat. Current Ward 3 School Board Member […]

  YORK COUNTY — As stranded seals continue to pop up on shores, state and federal officials are advising people to report any sightings of dead seals on beaches. Hundreds of seals have washed up on the shores of coastal beaches in New England over the past couple of months. According to information from the […]

LEBANON — As the state’s crisis deepens over the invasive emerald ash borer, officials from the Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry Maine Forest Service and Division of Animal and Plant Health, the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and USDA Forest Service have scheduled an informational session and public […]

ALFRED — The York County Sheriff’s Office is warning people of a phone scam through which someone impersonates a sheriff’s deputy. A Shapleigh woman received a phone call from someone claiming to be a York County Sheriff’s deputy, according to a statement from the York County Sheriff’s Office. The man on the other end of […]

A Buxton man may be among the first few loggers in Maine to feel the sting of a state law that imposes tough new rules on forestry workers who have past convictions for cutting down trees illegally. But Anthony P. Boisvert, 31, said he is the target of unfair enforcement by the Maine Forest Service […]

A 20-year-old Southern Maine Community College student from Wilton died as a result of injuries he suffered in a single-car crash near the entrance to Bug Light Park on Monday night, South Portland police said. Emergency workers were called to the park around 9:21 p.m. by the driver of a 2004 Volvo. Police say the […]