NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham is disavowing the support of white nationalists and claims her views about the nation’s demographic changes have been distorted, although that hasn’t quieted critics who see bigotry in her words. Her commentary this week leading into the one-year anniversary of a white nationalist demonstration that turned […]

YORK COUNTY — York County Community Action Corporation Fuel Assistance intake staff will begin scheduling LIHEAP application appointments on Monday, Aug. 27. YCCAC spokesman Brad Bohon said the  first to be contacted will be former LIHEAP clients who may be susceptible to hypothermia: aged 60 years or older, households with children age 2 and under, […]

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police charged a man Saturday for the deaths of two police officers and two civilians in a shooting that struck a nerve in a country that has been roiled in recent months by several instances of mass violence. Police in the eastern city of Fredericton, New Brunswick said that Matthew Vincent […]

The nearly 7-foot-tall, white-and-black DaVinci xi robot whirred to life, moving from its post at the operating room’s wall next to the bedside of the 63-year-old patient, Mark Kuzio. “Robot deployed,” said a mechanical robot voice. The DaVinci robot is the third to be purchased at Maine Medical Center in Portland for an ever-expanding number […]

AUGUSTA — The iconic image of a veterans cemetery, which can be seen everywhere from Normandy in France to Arlington, Virginia, has white headstones aligned with military precision in perfect rows in a carefully groomed setting, a place of honor to last the ages. That picture is changing. The Maine Veterans’ Cemetery System, which has […]

SEATAC, Wash. (AP) — A “suicidal” airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night, officials said. Preliminary information suggests the crash occurred because the 29-year-old man was “doing stunts […]

HOLLIS —  A report of a possible drug overdose led to the arrest of 10 people and the  seizure of methamphetamine labs in Hollis, according to police. At 11:04 p.m. Thursday, Maine State Police Troop responded to a residence at 114 Killick Pond Road to investigate a reported drug overdose. At the scene, officers discovered […]

YORK COUNTY — The desire for local produce and products hasn’t gone out of style. The proof is in the longevity of two farm stands in York County: Patten’s Berry Farm in Kennebunkport and Snell Family Farm in Buxton. Both farm stands have been in business for decades and offer a variety of locally grown […]

Children aboard a large van headed from Kittery to a New Hampshire water park were injured when the driver suffered a medical emergency and the bus crashed off Interstate 95 southbound in Greenland, New hampshire, on Friday morning. One of the 11 children on board the van was transferred to a hospital in Boston with […]