SANFORD — Maine State Police said the man shot and killed by police Monday in Rochester, New Hampshire, had been sought in Maine during a police chase that originated in Sanford in June. As a result of that pursuit two months ago, Douglas Heath, 38, of Lebanon, was wanted for eluding a police officer, said […]

A tractor-trailer truck hauling frozen potatoes overturned Tuesday morning on Interstate 95 in Etna, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety. The crash was reported around 9:30 a.m. and caused traffic in the southbound lanes at mile 167 to be reduced to one lane, according to a news release from Department of Public Safety […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Kelly Marie Tran is breaking her silence about online harassment months after deleting her Instagram account. In an essay published Tuesday in The New York Times, the “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” actress wrote it “wasn’t their words, it’s that I started to believe them.” Tran deleted her Instagram account in June. She […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — His name is Donald John Trump, but federal prosecutors have a simpler moniker for the 45th president: Individual 1. Dry legalese and generic aliases could do nothing to tone down the tale of the scheme to protect Trump outlined in court documents Tuesday. The criminal campaign finance case against the president’s former […]

BIDDEFORD — Frustration is evident among residents of South Street neighborhoods in Biddeford reeling from a massive construction project now in its third month that involves the reconstruction of sewer and storm water drains, installation of new water pipes, repaving the roadway, adding new curbing and rebuilding sidewalks there. Impassable roads, flying dirt and blasting operations […]

WELLS — State Police say a man was killed in a one-car crash on the Maine Turnpike this morning. State troopers say the crash occurred in the northbound lane, at mile 18, near the Wells-Ogunquit town line around 6:30 a.m, said Maine Public Safety Spokesman Steve McCausland in a written statement. The car struck the median […]

LIMINGTON —  A 36-year-old Limington  man was charged with domestic violence assault and refusing to submit to arrest following a disturbance on Boothby Road in Limington on Monday night. When York County Sheriff’s deputies arrived, they found that a domestic dispute had turned physical, said York County Sheriff William L. King Jr. in a statement. […]

GRAY — The Maine Wildlife Park’s celebrity moose calf is officially “here to stay.” Park Superintendent Curt Johnson said the 2-month-old female is “doing very, very well” since arriving in June at the 40-acre park off Route 26. The moose melted hearts across the country in a video of her with the dog of the […]

A Saco bicyclist struck by a hit-and-run driver on Friday has been released from the hospital, but investigators are still trying to determine who was behind the wheel of the pickup truck that hit him. The same Red Ford pickup truck that struck 40-year-old Michael Buck of Saco on Jenkins Road around 5 p.m. Friday also was […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The last Nazi war crimes suspect facing deportation from the U.S. was taken from his New York City home and spirited early Tuesday morning to Germany, the White House said. The deportation of the 95-year-old former concentration camp guard, Jakiw Palij, came 25 years after investigators first confronted him about his […]