A decade after first appearing in the United States, synthetic marijuana is seen as a growing health danger. Some marijuana smokers turned to it because it is relatively cheap and not detected in routine drug testing. Dozens of people in New Haven, Connecticut, went to the hospital this week after overdosing on a batch of synthetic pot. […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The reigning Miss America says she has been bullied, manipulated and silenced by the pageant’s current leadership, including Gretchen Carlson. In a letter sent Friday to former Miss Americas, Cara Mund says she decided to speak out despite the risk of punishment. Her letter is reminiscent of the movie “Mean […]

The owner of a Brunswick senior housing complex is facing felony charges alleging financial crimes. Amy McLellan, 61, was indicted Friday on two counts of misuse of entrusted property of a vulnerable person and theft. She owns the McLellan, an apartment complex for seniors that opened last year. Court records did not specify the value […]

SACO — Police are investigating two car accidents that occured close in time on Friday evening. Saco Police responded to a reported hit and run car crash involving a red pickup truck and a bicyclist on Jenkins Road at 5:06 p.m. on Friday. The police and fire departments found bicyclist, Michael Buck, 40, of Saco, injured […]

State officials recently discovered European frogbit, an invasive water plant, growing in Maine for the first time. They found the infestation just outside Augusta, in the northeast corner of Cobbossee Lake in Manchester, and announced the discovery Wednesday. The news came just a week after the announcement that a different invasive plant, Eurasian water milfoil, was […]

BIDDEFORD — A Maine district game warden who began his career in Biddeford in 1993 has been promoted to lieutenant by the Maine Warden Service. Lt. Dan Menard was selected to oversee one of five warden service divisions based in Sidney. Lt. Menard filled a vacancy created after Lt. Tim Place retired a short time […]

SANFORD — After a retirement and a resignation Sanford is down to two codes enforcement officers from four. Code Enforcement Officer Shirley Sheesley worked for the city for 18 years and retired July 27. City Manager Steve Buck said her expertise and work ethic will be sorely missed. On the same day Sheesley retired, Code […]

AUGUSTA — A brief but intense storm took out trees and power lines in part of Augusta overnight into Saturday morning, with one tree falling on at least one gravestone, knocking it askew, in the Coombs Cemetery at the intersection of Leighton Road and Mount Vernon Road. A Central Maine Power Co. dispatcher said Saturday […]

SACO (AP) — Three Maine organizations will receive federal money to study and respond to stranded marine mammals on beaches in the wake of a rash of seal deaths. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday that there have been 133 dead harbor seals in Maine this month. The agency says the average for […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he suspects he’ll “very quickly” revoke the security clearance for a Justice Department official whose wife worked for the firm involved in producing a dossier on Trump’s ties to Russia. Signaling that his efforts to target clearances over his frustration with the Russia investigation were not […]