BIDDEFORD – Each summer for the past several years, Biddeford Savings has hosted a Furry Friends campaign to collect pet supplies and cash donations for the Animal Welfare Society. During the campaign, customers and community members are encouraged to drop off donations at any Biddeford Savings branch location and additional funds are raised through employee […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Glowering in public and near-silent for two days, President Donald Trump relented under pressure Monday by tersely recognizing Sen. John McCain’s “service to our country” and re-lowering the White House flag. While much of the nation remembered McCain’s record as a war hero, longtime senator and presidential nominee over the weekend, Trump […]

NEW YORK (AP) — In “The Old Man and the Gun,” the elderly bank robber Forrest Tucker, played by Robert Redford, walks up to a bank teller, smiles, says a few words in a kindly manner, and collects a heap of money. Later when the teller is interviewed by the police, she’ll sound a little […]

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage was back in the Blaine House on Monday after being hospitalized over the weekend, but the details of his illness or injuries were not disclosed to the public. In a short statement Monday, Peter Steele, LePage’s communications director, said LePage had been discharged from Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and was […]

A New York man was arrested on drug trafficking charges after Westbrook police say they found drugs and a stolen firearm in a Reed Street apartment on Saturday. Westbrook police and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency last week began investigating alleged drug trafficking at 27 Reed St. and obtained a search warrant for apartment 2, […]

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft of an antique automobile from a home in Nobleboro. The theft is believed to have occurred between May and Aug. 15, the day that the owner discovered it was missing, Lt. Brendan W. Kane said in a statement. The auto is described as a 1930 Ford […]

BIDDEFORD – Someone may have stolen a sign from Waterhouse Field last week, but they can never steal the Tiger Pride that runs strong in Biddeford. On Friday, local school officials found that the “TIGER PRIDE” sign in orange letters had been stolen from Waterhouse Field the night before. “They took the sign right off the […]

SACABA, Bolivia (AP) — Julia Flores Colque still sings with joy in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the five strings of a tiny Andean guitar known as the charango, despite a recorded age of almost 118 years. In her long life, she has witnessed two world wars, revolutions in her native Bolivia and the […]

ARUNDEL — Three members of the same family are in a bit of hot water with the law after a mother allegedly yelled and screamed at deputies as they were arresting her son. Then, according to York County Sheriff William L. King Jr. she and her husband allegedly refused to come out of their home […]

PORTLAND — Two Biddeford men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for an alleged hate crime in the city that took place in April. Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced Monday that Maurice Diggins, 34, and Dusty Leo, 27, both of Biddeford, Maine, were indicted […]