BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Robin Roberts is getting into business with the Lifetime channel. The cable channel said Thursday that it’s signed a production deal with the ABC News journalist for a series of movies and documentaries. The first project will focus on gospel singer and activist Mahalia Jackson. Next up is an account […]

BUXTON — A routine park patrol by Buxton Police at Pleasant Point Park led to the arrest of a Biddeford resident. Chief Troy Cline of the Buxton Police was conducting a park patrol at Pleasant Point Park on David Wiggins Drive off Simpson Road about 3:30 p.m. July 11. During his patrol, Cline observed several […]

An estimated 1 million gallons of partially treated sewage spilled out of Portland’s wastewater treatment plant and into Casco Bay Thursday morning, washing away a section of the Eastern Prom Trail, closing East End Beach and raising questions about whether to hold the annual open-water swim from Peaks Island to Portland that is scheduled for Saturday. The […]

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — An explosive wildfire tore through two small Northern California communities Thursday before reaching the city of Redding, killing a bulldozer operator on the fire lines, burning three firefighters, destroying dozens of homes and forcing thousands of terrified residents to flee. Flames swept through the communities of Shasta and Keswick before jumping […]

ALFRED — Not guilty. That’s the verdict a jury found for Jill Lamontagne, a former Kennebunk High School health teacher who was tried on 14 counts of sexual assault She was charged with six Class C felony charges of gross sexual assault involving an individual over whom she had instructional, supervisory or disciplinary authority; two […]

ALFRED — The fate of former Kennebunk High School health teacher Jill Lamontagne now rests with the jury following closing arguments in her sexual assault trial. Closing arguments in the 14-count criminal case against the teacher wound down shortly after noon.    Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Heimbach reviewed the testimony that painted a picture of […]

ALFRED — A federal civil suit claiming physical detention, kidnapping and illegal arrest in 2011 by two York County Sheriff Office deputies against a Buxton man, allegedly on behalf of a retired Portland police officer, has been settled. Named in the suit, filed 11 months ago at U. S. District Court in Portland, were York […]

ALFRED — Under cross examination by Deputy District Attorney Justina McGettigan Thursday morning, Jill  Lamontagne testified she had driven a teen boy to his home or other locations four times in the spring of 2017. She testified that she didn’t drive any student after she returned to school that spring following a week of administrative leave, […]

OAKLAND — The 8-year-old boy who was found dead Tuesday at a home on Church Street died of a gunshot wound to the head after his father’s loaded 12-gauge shotgun went off as the boy was handling it, state officials said Wednesday. Parker Stevens had been handling the gun inside a closet in his parents’ […]