SOUTH PORTLAND — City officials are scrutinizing a proposal by Central Maine Power Co. to expand a transmission substation on the Fore River – near the Knightville neighborhood and the Casco Bay Bridge – that has sparked concerns about potential public health, environmental and visual impacts. The company has provided few details so far about […]

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast unraveling Venezuela threatening regional security, why can’t the U.S. just simply invade the troubled country? The suggestion stunned those […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A man charged with gunning down five people at a Maryland newspaper sent three letters on the day of the attack, police said, including one that said he was on his way to the Capital Gazette newsroom with the aim “of killing every person present.” Sgt. Jacklyn Davis, a spokeswoman for Anne […]

The state’s highest court ruled Tuesday that state attorneys may continue to prosecute the case of a woman accused of beating her 10-year-old daughter to death. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court dismissed the appeal filed on behalf of Sharon Carrillo. Carrillo and her husband, Julio Carrillo, 51, are accused of beating 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy to death on Feb. […]

Flowers and the flag are in abundance as the nation celebrates its 242nd birthday today. TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune  

BIDDEFORD — Ask Elizabeth Ames and she’ll tell you that the role of an educator is to instill in students a desire to improve the lives of others and leave the community better off than how they found it. Ames, the art teacher at Biddeford Middle School, is succeeding at doing just that and last […]

  SACO — Pizza lovers now have another local option. OTTO pizza is opening its seventh Maine restaurant in Saco on Thursday. The new pizza restaurant is located at 779 Portland Road, in the same building as the Cinemagic movie theater. OTTO founders Anthony Allen and Mike Keon met in Massachusetts, where they owned neighboring […]

SANFORD — City officials say every household in Sanford and Springvale village should receive a mailing by the end of the week that outlines just what Ecomaine will accept as recyclable. City Manager Steven Buck said the mailing was poised to go out Monday night. He said the mailing will contain a list of “dos and […]

A federal court in Illinois has dismissed a lawsuit challenging L.L. Bean’s new, more limited, return policy. Bean customer Victor Bondi filed the lawsuit in February, three days after Bean ended its unlimited return policy, saying it had been abused by customers returning worn-out shirts, boots, jackets and other goods. The company’s new policy is to accept returns […]

LISBON — Being in his kitchen, James Ross grabbed what was handy – a meat cleaver – to dispatch what appeared to be a rabid fox last month. The 82-year-old Lisbon man said seeing wildlife on his River Road property is common, but this was one encounter he didn’t expect when he left his doors […]