OLD ORCHARD BEACH — A Massachusetts man has been arrested for allegedly selling marijuana at an Old Orchard Beach downtown jewelry store. Old Orchard Beach police and Maine Drug Enforcement Agents carried out a search warrant at 935 Silver Shop, 24B Old Orchard St., at 2 p.m. on Thursday, according to a press release from Captain […]

LONDON (AP) — The Moscow lawyer said to have promised Donald Trump’s presidential campaign dirt on his Democratic opponent worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Scores of emails, transcripts and legal documents paint a portrait of Natalia Veselnitskaya as a […]

ALFRED — A suspect charged in 2015 with luring a woman to a remote residence in Arundel, assaulting her with a cattle prod-shaped taser, and attempting to force her into a van for ransom has been sentenced to a total of 20 years in prison. A jury of six men and five women found Christopher […]

The criminal cases against well-known Maine chef Shannon Bard and her husband, who were charged with writing thousands of dollars in bad checks before closing their Portland restaurant last year, are nearing conclusion. The two were charged in March. Thomas Bard was charged with writing 21 bad checks worth $10,376 between March and June 2017. Shannon Bard, […]

A Caribou man is suing the Maine Department of Corrections for refusing to allow him to receive medication in prison to treat his opioid addiction. According to the federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in U.S. District Court in Portland on Thursday, Zachary Smith, 30, of Caribou is being denied his rights […]

ALFRED — A jury found former Kennebunk High School health teacher Jill Lamontagne on Thursday not guilty on all counts of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old student in 2017. Lamontagne quietly burst into tears as the jury foreman delivered the verdict, one-by-one, on each of the 14 counts. The verdict came two hours after closing arguments […]

SACO — A special car is coming up from Connecticut to Saco Main Street’s classic car show this year. This is the ninth year the local economic development group has hosted the car show, which will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. Cars will line up along the sides of Main […]

BUXTON — A traffic conducted by Buxton Police resulted in the arrest on a habitual offender. According to Buxton Police Chief Troy Cline, Buxton Officer Hunter Smith responded to a report of a vehicle being operated erratically on Portland Road about 8:50 p.m. July 13. Cline said that Smith found and stopped a gold 2000 Audi […]

SACO — The Saco River Corridor Commission tabled a vote on the application for a  $40 million mixed-use redevelopment proposed for the east side of Saco Island, stating that more review is needed. Saulnier Development has proposed The Waters, which would include 92 condominiums, 10,000 sq. ft. of retail space, a small boutique hotel, a […]

An Oxford County sheriff’s deputy was fired Wednesday after an internal probe into a 2016 incident in which the deputy allegedly shot off the tip of his finger with his service weapon after spending most of St. Patrick’s Day drinking while off duty. Stephen Witham, the only deputy trained to handle the Oxford County Sheriff’s […]