AUGUSTA — A Winslow man had been inhaling Dust-Off, a compressed-air cleaning product, just before crashing his car into a Halifax Street house in January, a prosecutor said. Marc A. Ouellette, 49, pleaded guilty Thursday at the Capital Judicial Center to three misdemeanor charges related to the Jan. 31 crash: operating under the influence; driving to endanger; […]

Scallops are among the most valuable and beloved seafood items in the U.S., and a group of Maine firms believes that farming them might be a way of keeping up with increasing demand. The Atlantic sea scallop is a New England mainstay, but unlike oysters and mussels, they’re almost exclusively harvested from the wild on […]

SACO — Maine Woodworks Lead Casegoods Assembler Arturo Rodriguez Leyenda bent over an upturned table at the warehouse, intently focused on screwing pieces together. Leyenda came to work at Maine Woodworks in Saco after he decided to close his own business when the last recession hit. He, like others at the warehouse at 90 Industrial […]

BIDDEFORD — Anthony Catalfano, a Hall of Fame interior designer and the author of Embellished Spaces, a 2018 book on home and interior design, will host Timeless Design: An Evening of Fabric, Design & Décor on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at Vinegar Hill Music Theatre in Arundel. Proceeds from the event will benefit SMHC’s Cardiac and Vascular […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions punched back hard at President Donald Trump’s latest criticism as their long-running rift exploded into a public smackdown. Trump, concerned by the legal downfall of two former advisers, accused Sessions of failing to take control of the Justice Department, leading Sessions to declare Thursday that he and his […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — John Lennon’s killer has been denied parole for a 10th time and will remain behind bars for at least two more years. Mark David Chapman appeared before New York’s parole board on Wednesday. In a denial decision obtained by The Associated Press Thursday, the board said it had determined Chapman’s release […]

HONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Lane unleashed torrents of rain and landslides that blocked roads on Hawaii’s mostly rural Big Island on Thursday as residents and tourists in the state’s biggest city braced for the dangerous storm to come their way. Emergency workers rescued five people from a flooded house in Hilo after a nearby gulch […]

BIDDEFORD — Four vacationers from Montreal caught in a rip current at Fortune’s Rocks Beach on Wednesday, say the event wasnʼt going to prevent them from going to the beach again. On Wednesday around 4 p.m. two adults and two children went into the water at Fortune’s Rocks Beach and got pulled into a rip […]

AUGUSTA — Police are investigating at the scene where a body was found Thursday afternoon on Weeks Mills Road. “Detectives from the Augusta Police Department were following up leads on a missing person case and during the course of the investigation Detectives located an unidentified body,” Augusta police said in a news release sent about […]