NEW YORK (AP) — More than fifty years into his career, Rod Stewart shows no sign of slowing down. When he’s not on tour, he’s busy at home chasing his two young sons, Aiden and Alastair, around the yard. And on Sept. 28, he will release his 30th studio album, “Blood Red Roses.” While known […]

Ricker Hamilton is retiring as state commissioner of health and human services, a department that is under investigation by the Legislature’s watchdog agency after the beating deaths of two young girls who were in the child protection system. Hamilton has run the Maine Department of Health and Human Services since May 2017, when he was […]

SANFORD — The following people were arrested or charged by Sanford Police Aug. 7 through Aug. 9. If there is no listing for a specific date, it means no one was arrested or charged on that day, according to police logs provided by the agency: • Christopher Steven Cloyd, 38, Sanford, was arrested and charged […]

KENNEBUNK — The Brick Store Museum has received a $29,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to develop a plan to improve environmental conditions in the museum’s circa 1850 Kimball House on Dane Street. The property houses a significant collection of textiles and historic objects related to the history of shipbuilding and tourism in Maine, […]

PORTLAND — Two unions representing about 1,000 Consolidated Communications workers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have approved three-year contracts, their first under the Illinois-based company, officials said Friday. The negotiating committee of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Communications Workers of America announced the approval while acknowledging in a statement on social media […]

An Albion man is facing an arson charge related to a flash fire at his home last January that occurred when authorities said he was mixing rocket fuel. Joseph Forest Tilly, 36, was arrested Wednesday and taken to the Kennebec County jail in Augusta on charges of arson and criminal use of explosives. At Tilly’s […]

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in a new book that there are tapes of President Donald Trump using racial slurs and that she saw him behaving “like a dog off the leash” at numerous events he attended without his wife, first lady Melania Trump. The accusations are among […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — After three days of dramatic and sometimes salacious testimony in the trial of Paul Manafort, prosecutors returned to the nuts and bolts of their case against the former Trump campaign chairman as they sought to show he obtained millions of dollars in bank loans under false pretenses. Attorneys for special counsel […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Demi Lovato has canceled the rest of her fall tour to focus on her recovery. The singer was scheduled to perform in Mexico in September and in South America in November, but announced Thursday that she would not perform the shows. Over the weekend Lovato checked out of the hospital she […]

  ARUNDEL —Three people were injured, one seriously, police said, as a result of a three-car crash at the intersection of U.S. Route 1, known as Portland Road, and Post Road at noon on Thursday. York County Sheriff William L. King Jr. said a 2014 GMC Terrain, operated by Shawna Taylor, 39, of Limerick, was […]