LEWISTON — Dressed in sharp suits and colorful flowing diraacs, the men and women of Maine’s small but growing Djiboutian population gathered Friday to celebrate the 41st anniversary of their homeland’s independence from France. The ballroom at the Ramada Inn filled slowly through the night as families arrived and people of all ages took to […]

ROCKLAND — An otter that bit a vacationer on a beach this week has tested positive for rabies, the first documented case of a rabid otter in Maine. Animal Control Officer Troy Peasley reported Friday that the otter, which bit Laurie Nevins, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Wednesday, had tested positive for rabies at […]

A retired state trooper who was arrested in December and charged with selling opioids to a police informant has reached a plea deal with the state and could receive up to 18 months in prison for drug trafficking when he is sentenced Monday. Jeffrey Linscott of Buxton was charged with aggravated trafficking in fentanyl, trafficking […]

A  York man has been sentenced to a month in prison for making false statements to a federal agent. Mark Elkhorn, 58, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Jon D. Levy to three years of supervised release. The sentencing was in federal court in Bangor. Elkhorn pleaded guilty to the charge in January. According […]

Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a $60 million Medicaid expansion funding bill Friday, an expected move that sets up a veto override vote by lawmakers when they return on July 9. LePage said in a statement Friday evening that he vetoed the bill, passed by the Legislature last week, because lawmakers acted in a fiscally irresponsible […]

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine will not apply an ideological litmus test to the next Supreme Court nominee, a Collins spokeswoman said Thursday. “When Senator Collins evaluates judges, she always looks at their judicial temperament; qualifications; experience; and respect for precedent, the rule of law, and the Constitution,” Collins spokeswoman Annie Clark said via […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Pam Horton drove two days in the rain from Michigan to Old Orchard Beach to attend the national convention of the Chrome Angelz women’s motorcycle organization. As Horton readied to begin a group ride to Fort Williams on Friday morning her answer to why she joined the group four years ago […]

Bowdoin College alumni Dave and Charlotte Willner of California, with their daughter, helped raise millions to reunify immigrant families. COURTESY PHOTO/the Willner family A Facebook fundraiser that went viral and has raised more than $20 million to help reunite immigrant families separated at the southern border was started by a couple of Bowdoin College graduates […]