OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Regional School Unit 23 Superintendent John Suttie, who also serves as the Old Orchard Beach High School principal, and Old Orchard Beach High School Assistant Principal Eric Hanson announced in a letter to parents dated Aug. 15 that the school was adopting “a zero-tolerance policy” with regard to cell phone use. “The cell […]

LIMINGTON  — A Maine State Police  dog named Ibo is getting “atta boys” these days for his role in locating a cache of items police say were stolen in a burglary on Aug. 21. Last week, a landlord and a tenant, armed with a shotgun and a rifle, held two alleged burglars at bay until […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The official arrival of the 51 hopefuls vying for the title of Miss America went off Thursday without direct mention of the recent public tensions between the reigning titleholder and the pageant’s leadership. Chairwoman Gretchen Carlson has feuded on Twitter with reigning Miss America Cara Mund after Mund said she’d […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Increasingly convinced that the West Wing is wholly unprepared to handle the expected assault from Democrats if they win the House in November, President Donald Trump’s aides and allies are privately raising alarm as his circle of legal and communications advisers continues to shrink. With vacancies abounding in the White House and […]

BIDDEFORD — Police and state drug agents have caught up with a Massachusetts man they say has been selling fentanyl and cocaine in a zone around a local parochial school. As well, police say Frank Barrett has been selling drugs in other locations in Biddeford and across the river in Saco. Barrett, 44, has an […]

YORK COUNTY — Sales of existing homes are continuing to show growth, those in the real estate industry say and that is holding true in York County as well as in nine other of Maine’s 16 counties. Still, the number of available homes coming on the market is shrinking, and that could spell difficulties for […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Thousands of people paid their respects to U.S. Sen. John McCain on Wednesday, standing for hours in the broiling Arizona sun before filing past the flag-draped casket that his tearful wife, Cindy, lovingly pressed her face against after a ceremony for the former North Vietnam prisoner of war who represented Arizona for […]

LEWISTON — Local and state police said a local woman was arrested Tuesday night on drug charges. Officers from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, Maine State Police and the Lewiston Police Department arrested Elizabeth Yvonne Young after her car was stopped Tuesday night on the Maine Turnpike near Lewiston, according to a statement from Maine […]

The former head of the Catholic Church in Maine is facing mounting pressure to resign as bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, over his handling of sexual abuse allegations against members of the clergy. Bishop Richard J. Malone, who served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland from 2004 until 2012, […]

Critics say Gov. Paul LePage’s decision to challenge a federal court’s ruling that the Civil Rights Act protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination casts Maine in a bad light and could hurt the state’s economic development efforts. Ed McKersie, founder and president of the Portland staffing and recruiting firm Pro Search Inc., said that […]