SANFORD — Police on Tuesday said they have no suspects relating to an act of vandalism on Nottingham Drive in Sanford. The white Cape Cod-style home in south Sanford has been under renovation. Sometime between Sept. 1 and 2, a vandal or vandals took a spray can of red paint and applied it on the […]

It’s not your imagination: there really are more squirrels scampering around Maine this summer. And a lot of them are ending up dead on the sides of the state’s roads. Drivers in the southern Maine have found themselves dodging the small rodents as they dart across streets and steering around squashed squirrels that didn’t make […]

State officials revoked the liquor license of a downtown Portland bar last week after the applicants removed the name of a minority owner who would later plead guilty to lying to the FBI in Pennsylvania. Sagamore Hill’s license was revoked on Thursday. The bar at the corner of Congress and Park streets had been open […]

AUBURN — A South Paris man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for stabbing his girlfriend’s estranged husband at a Lewiston barbershop in December. Michael Barrucci, 24, pleaded guilty last week to aggravated assault in a so-called Alford plea, meaning he continued to deny the charge for the record, but agreed to plead […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh touted the importance of an independent judiciary as his confirmation hearings began with strident Democratic criticism that he would be President Donald Trump’s man on the high court. On Wednesday, Kavanaugh can expect to spend most of the day in the hot seat, sparring with Democratic senators […]

WATERBORO — On Nov. 6, Waterboro voters will decide if they wish to allow all terrain vehicles on some public roads, bond a new fire truck to replace a 20-year-old model and add a provision to the charter to allow the town to operate should the annual budget fail at the polls. Selectmen agreed that […]

SANFORD — A 2-year-old found wandering alone on Island Avenue in Sanford late Monday afternoon was soon reunited with his father. Deputy Police Chief Tim Strout said police received a call at about 5:55 p.m. that a child had been found walking in the street of the east side neighborhood. Strout said the child had […]

CHINA — Three people from Massachusetts were arrested over the weekend and charged with carrying out a string of car burglaries between Saturday night and Sunday morning, then using a stolen credit card at a local diner and gas station, police said. The trio allegedly entered at least six unlocked cars located off Neck Road, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Showing his disregard for the Justice Department’s independence, President Donald Trump tweeted that federal indictments against two Republican congressmen placed the GOP in midterm election jeopardy. Trump again attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the tweet suggesting that the Justice Department consider politics when making decisions: “Obama era investigations, of two very […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The late Aretha Franklin’s family said Monday that it found an Atlanta pastor’s eulogy delivered at the Queen of Soul’s funeral last week to be offensive and distasteful. The eulogist, the Rev. Jasper Williams Jr., was criticized for a political address that described children being in a home without a father […]