NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” ″Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday […]

A bail hearing Monday for a Saco roofing contractor foreshadowed the issues that could be central to a trial over his alleged role in a worker’s fatal fall last year. Shawn D. Purvis, the 44-year-old owner of Purvis Home Improvement in Scarborough, is charged with one count of manslaughter and one count of workplace manslaughter […]

SACO — ShuttleBus-ZOOM has introduced a new bus schedule with enhanced routes and expanded local service, however, some commuters from Old Orchard Beach say it has added time to their commutes. ShuttleBus-ZOOM provides daily bus service between Biddeford, Saco, Old Orchard Beach, Scarborough, and Portland, and has an annual ridership of about 355,000. On Aug. […]

SANFORD – The Sanford Housing Authority, which administers close to 600 federal housing vouchers and owns or manages 300 housing units, is looking for a new executive director. The current director, William “Bill” Keefer, who came to the agency in June 2001, is retiring. At 70, he says, it is time. “Bill has done a […]

The state’s highest court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of a former Waterboro man serving 20 years in state prison for injuring a woman with a homemade stun gun and attempting to kidnap her as revenge for her role in his child custody case years earlier. Christopher T. Hall, 52, appealed his 2017 conviction for kidnapping, assault, and aggravated […]

Eric Mercado had just lost a stash of cocaine worth thousands, but he had a plan to make up for that. There was a man in York who was known to be growing and selling marijuana. According to a plot laid out in court documents, Mercado heard that the man had money at his house, […]

BERWICK – Some pretty perfect casting was involved in filling the lead roles for “Peter and the Starcatcher” opening next week at Hackmatack Playhouse in Berwick. Griffinn Gower, 17, of Lebanon, recalls when he was Peter Pan’s age, 13, he was just like Peter. Anique Mercier, 22, says that she is so much like Molly, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stephen Kay was a fresh-faced prosecutor just 27 years old and three years out of law school when circumstances handed him the Charles Manson “family” murder case. Over the next half-century, it would come to define his career and lead to death threats that to this day he worries a Manson […]

An underused wharf on the Portland waterfront has changed hands, but the property’s full future use is still unclear. Christopher DiMillo, owner of DiMillo’s Yacht Sales, closed on Berlin Mills Wharf at 400 Commercial St. last month for $4 million. The 1.5-acre property includes a street-facing, four-story office building, wharf and vacant waterfront industrial building. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaking out against weekend mass shootings that rocked a nation, President Donald Trump on Monday called for bipartisan solutions to the bloodshed but offered few details and faced pointed questions from Democrats about whether he had the moral authority to rally America against the spasm of violence and racism. Trump, back at […]