ISTANBUL (AP) — Unknown attackers fired shots at a security booth outside the U.S. Embassy in Turkey’s capital early Monday, but U.S. officials said no one was hurt. Ankara governor’s office said six shots were fired from a moving white car towards the embassy compound at 5:30 am (2:30 GMT). Three of the bullets hit […]

An 11-year-old Naples boy who went missing Sunday afternoon for several hours was located and reunited with his parents Sunday night, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Capt. Craig Smith said Anthony Labrecque of 411 Harrison Road was last seen around 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Five deputies and four game wardens spent most of the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The very mention of Manchester still brings Ariana Grande to tears. The singer cried during an interview Friday with Ebro for Beats 1 on Apple Music as she shared thoughts on the 2017 concert in England, when a suicide bomber killed 22 people. She said that terrorists “want you to be […]

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump insists that his White House counsel isn’t a “RAT” like the Watergate-era White House attorney who turned on Richard Nixon, and he is blasting the ongoing Russia investigation as “McCarthyism.” Trump, in a series of angry tweets, denounced a New York Times story that his White House counsel, […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — About 60 Southern Maine Community College students living at Spring Point Residence Hall moved to temporary quarters Sunday after being told Saturday night they had less than 24 hours to vacate the dorm because of widespread mold in the building. The college attributed the problem to a malfunction in the dorm’s heating, […]

SACO – The city’s Planning Board will get an overview of The Waters at Saco Island, a proposed $40 million development, on Tuesday. The Waters is a mixed-use project being proposed by Saulnier Development. The proposed development would bring 92 condominiums, 10,000 square feet of retail space, a small boutique hotel, a restaurant, two small […]

BIDDEFORD — LearningWorks has received a $497,646 AmeriCorps grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service and it will support 101 AmeriCorps members who will provide tutoring, mentoring, and extracurricular enrichment for students who are not yet meeting literacy and math benchmarks. This grant will fund LearningWorks’ AIMS HIGH program, which recruits, trains, and […]

  Juggler Michael Menes performs on the lawn of the Edith Belle Libby Memorial Library on Friday. LIZ GOTTHELF/Journal Tribune

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department lawyers asked a federal judge Friday to let them file a legal appeal that could, for now, keep President Donald Trump’s critics from getting access to financial records related to his Washington, D.C., hotel. Trump has been fighting multiple lawsuits that argue that foreign representatives’ spending money at the Trump […]

A Plymouth man was seriously injured Saturday morning after the motorcycle he was operating was struck by a car near the northbound off-ramp of Interstate 95 in Palmyra, according to a Somerset County Sheriff’s official. Chief Deputy James Ross said in a press release that Robert Dorrance, 57, of Plymouth, was driving a 2003 Indian […]