SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh worries about federal agencies running amok. He has argued that judges have given federal agencies leeway to push policies that go well beyond what Congress allowed. That view has endeared him to conservatives, who believe unelected bureaucrats are foisting radical regulations on Americans with little accountability. Liberals fear […]

PORTLAND — Gov. Paul LePage’s administration agreed to release on Tuesday more than $1 million in public campaign funding the governor held up by refusing to sign routine financial orders, but the governor’s office says the ethics commission should cut the checks themselves.An attorney with Maine Citizens for Clean Elections said the group could go […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Lt. Harry Weymouth, a longtime city firefighter and paramedic who died Thursday after a head-on collision in Hollis, fell asleep while driving home from a second job as a registered nurse at Southern Maine Health Care in Sanford, Maine State Police investigators say. Weymouth, 46, had worked a “mini-shift” from 7 to 11 […]

SACO — After hearing input from Scarborough residents, a couple of Saco city councilors would like to revisit a proposed ordinance that would require dogs to be on leash on the beach at all times from April 1 to Sept. 30. Currently, dogs must be on leash at at the beach from 9 a.m. to […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie Pitt says she wants her divorce from Brad Pitt finalized before the end of the year. The declarations came in a request for a case-management hearing filed Tuesday by Jolie Pitt’s attorneys in Los Angeles Superior Court. The document says her attorneys will work with Pitt’s lawyers to ensure […]

YORK COUNTY— When you’re young and the worst happens — a parent or sibling dies — life changes in all sorts of ways. There’s the grief and the loss, and often there are other changes — a new school and sometimes a new family. It can be a lot. Mike Hickson knows about that — he […]

SANFORD — The long anticipated SanfordNet Fiber project – a 10-gig, 45-mile, municipal high-speed fiber optic network— has begun. It has been multi-year journey, but work commenced quietly on Aug. 1, city officials say barring some unforeseen circumstance, it should be complete by the end of November. “We’re very, very excited,” said City Manager Steve […]

Democratic lawmaker Dillon Bates has resigned from his fall coaching job at Massabesic High School in the wake of a published report that he allegedly engaged in inappropriate behavior with several female students, including when he was a drama teacher at the private Maine Girls’ Academy in Portland. “We’ve heard from Dillon that he is […]