WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents and lawmakers from both parties honored Sen. John McCain’s decades of service to his country in the hours after his death Saturday. President Donald Trump, who once criticized McCain for being taken prisoner during the Vietnam War, said his “deepest sympathies and respect” went out to McCain’s family. McCain, 81, died […]

ALBION — A registered sex offender living in a tent in the garage of a Quaker Hill Road residence for a month was discovered by a Department of Health and Human Services employee visiting a woman providing foster care for two children younger than 14 years old. Vincent Robinson, 52, formerly of Bangor, was arrested […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Sen. John McCain has discontinued medical treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, says his family. It’s a likely indication that the war hero, presidential nominee and longtime leading lawmaker is nearing the end of his life. McCain has surpassed expectations for survival, but “the progress of disease and the […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Robin Leach, whose voice crystallized the opulent 1980s on TV’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” died Friday. He was 76 His son, Steven Leach, said he died in Las Vegas, where he made his home. Leach had a stroke in November while on vacation in Mexico that led to a […]

Maine State Police are looking for a 37-year-old woman from Blue Hill who has been missing over a month. Police say that Jessica Grindle was last heard from on July 23 and was last seen in Blue Hill. Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said Grindle is from Blue Hill and […]

JAY — A Canadian power company says it has entered into an agreement to purchase the New Jersey-based company that owns 11 hydroelectric stations in Maine. Ontario Power Generation said on its website that it has agreed to acquire 100 percent equity in Eagle Creek Renewable Energy LLC for $298 million by the end of […]

BIDDEFORD – A sign at Waterhouse Field has been stolen according to Jim Godbout, President of the Waterhouse Field Alumni Association. Godbout said he received a phone call Friday morning that the sign, which reads “TIGER PRIDE,” was missing. “They took the sign right off the press box,” he said. Waterhouse Field is used by […]

SANFORD — Two more run-down buildings, former commercial and industrial properties, have been deemed dangerous or a nuisance as defined in state law. The Sanford City Council‘s designation of 93 Lebanon St., known locally as the former Gendron Lumber property on Lebanon Street and vacant since at least the 1980s, and 199 Jagger Mill Road, […]

BIDDEFORD — One of the most beloved figures in the history of the University of New England’s athletic program has been saluted by a local legislator for his decades of service at the college and has joined the elite group of athletes and coaches enshrined in the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame. To commemorate longtime […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to unite Ohio’s fractious state Republican Party on Friday, bitterly complaining about “negative, nasty” Democrats and warning that the Democratic contender for governor would “destroy your state.” Trump praised the slate of Republican candidates during a fundraising dinner in the nation’s premier battleground state but noticeably avoided […]