YORK COUNTY – Summer is here, and what better way to enjoy the warm weather than an outdoor concert. Several community groups are sponsoring free concert series, so grab a lawn chair or blanket, gather your family, and enjoy the show. In Biddeford, the Music in the Park Concert series runs from 5:30 to 7 […]

KENNEBUNK — With the same patriotic fervor as Maine’s response to a call for troops in the Civil War, more than 35,000 men and women across Maine joined the armed forces in 1917-18 to fight in aid of America’s European allies against the Germans as well as to redress German destruction of American vessels in […]

A New Hampshire man suspected of killing his wife in Berlin, New Hampshire, was found dead Friday night in Rumford, according to Maine State Police. Denis Bisson, 52, shot himself along the banks of the Androscoggin River, near an information booth on Bridge Street, Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Safety, said in […]

LONDON (AP) — Former “Game of Thrones” co-stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie married Saturday with a church service and a celebration at the bride’s ancestral castle in Scotland. The couple and guests arrived for the afternoon service at Rayne Church, close to the 900-year-old Wardhill Castle in northeast Scotland, which is owned by Leslie’s […]

A body was found Saturday afternoon in the Penobscot River in Bangor. A boater reported seeing a body in the water near the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge, said Sgt. Wade Betters, spokesman for the Bangor Police Department. Police officers and firefighters responded to the waterfront around 2:30 p.m. and recovered the body, which will be brought […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was booted from a Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump, setting off a fierce debate about whether politics should play a role in how administration officals are treated in public. Sanders was the latest to experience a brusque reception in such a […]

A rabid fox attacked a Brunswick woman who was retrieving her mail Sunday, and then bit a neighbor who came to her aid. “A fox charged her and actually attacked her – bit her on the hand and both legs fairly severely,” said Animal Control Officer Heidi Nelson. “A neighbor saw what was happening, came […]

LONDON (AP) — It had been a magical mystery tour as Paul McCartney led James Corden through his hometown of Liverpool during a “Carpool Karaoke ” segment on CBS’ “The Late Late Show.” Thursday’s program wraps up a weeklong stay in London and the 76-year-old Beatles legend joined Corden for a drive. In between songs, McCartney […]

NEW YORK — The young immigrants held in prison-like conditions at a juvenile detention center in the mountains of Virginia express despair. Some cling to pleasant memories from home. For a select few, there is hope. For a handful of immigrants who came to the U.S. from Central America — many as unaccompanied minors — poetry […]

VIENNA — The countries of the OPEC cartel agreed on Friday to pump 1 million barrels more crude oil per day, a move that should help contain the recent rise in global energy prices. Questions remain, however, over the ability of some OPEC nations — Iran and Venezuela in particular — to increase production as […]