SANFORD — Sometimes, to know where you’ve been, digging is involved. A digger can unearth things — such as pottery shards, old clay pipes, buttons or beads or bullets or hand wrought nails. This weekend, archeologists and volunteers will conduct a dig in south Sanford, hoping to find evidence of a garrison built 24 years […]

The 21-year-old driver of a Kittery Recreation Department van that crashed Friday will be placed on leave while the town investigates the circumstances of the crash, the Kittery town manager said Sunday. Kittery town manager Kendra Amaral said everyone who was injured in the crash also were had been released from area hospitals, including one child who […]

BUXTON — A traffic stop of an All Terrain Vehicle by police has led to the arrest of two Buxton men. According to Buxton Police Chief Troy Cline, Buxton Officer Jessica Ramsey observed two men riding an All Terrain Vehicle in the travel lane on River Road (Route 112) in Buxton about 7:45 p.m. July 16. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time on the Kenneth Starr team investigating Bill Clinton reveal his resistance to issuing an indictment of a sitting president. The memo, tucked toward the end of nearly 10,000 pages released Friday, provides greater insight into Kavanaugh’s views on executive power that are […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft zoomed toward the sun Sunday on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before. As soon as this fall, the Parker Solar Probe will fly straight through the wispy edges of the sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere, that was visible during […]

The driver who crashed a passenger van Friday morning carrying 11 children from the Kittery Community Center’s summer camp to a water park in New Hampshire was released from the hospital later the same day, according to a Kittery official. John E. Guy, 21, had a medical emergency, according to the New Hampshire State Police, and drove […]

The elderly Westbrook woman had already started to do the scammer’s bidding when it occurred to her that there was something suspicious about what the person claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service had told her. According to what the woman told Westbrook police, she supposedly owed the IRS money, and in order to […]

A 2-year-old girl in Windham had to be rescued Thursday after the car she was in rolled into a pond. Windham police responded to a report of a car submerged in the waters of Pettingill Pond near Shore Road. An investigation revealed that a 2011 Subaru owned by Edward Hallett of Windham had been parked […]

Seven tons of trash. That’s what was removed from the Saco River last year during the Saco Salmon Restoration Alliance’s annual Saco River Trash Drive. Among the items were numerous tires, wood debris such as wooden pallets and pieces of docks, cans and bottles, furniture, rolled up carpets, even a drive shaft from a car, […]

AUBURN — Seth Carey, the Republican nominee for district attorney in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties, faces disbarment next week, stemming in part from allegations he sexually abused a woman and then proposed paying her to drop her complaint. The woman making the allegations against Carey is a former client who had been living with him at […]