KENNEBUNK — A multiple-vehicle accident on Fletcher Street in Kennebunk just east of exit 25 on the Maine Turnpike resulted in the roadway being closed for more than two hours Tuesday morning and several people taken to the hospital. According to Kennebunk Deputy Police Chief Michael F. Nugent, a 41-year-old Wells man was driving eastbound in […]

A motorcyclist from Limington died Monday morning after his 2007 Suzuki motorcycle crashed in Baldwin near Sebago Lake. Capt. Donald Goulet of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office identified the driver as Morris L. Watson Jr., 42. Watson was not wearing a helmet when his bike, which was traveling west on Route 113, collided with a […]

SANFORD — Elizabeth Bernier was finishing up Grade 8 when she noticed some students on social media were talking about their English assignments. They may have expressed dissatisfaction with their teacher, she said, or didn’t understand the assignment. Bernier, who is graduating from Sanford High School this week and is among the class top 10 […]

AUGUSTA — Maine voters will head to the polls Tuesday to select Republican and Democratic nominees for governor, and decide the fate of ranked-choice voting in statewide elections. While many party loyalists in Maine will be waiting to see who prevails among the seven Democratic and four Republican gubernatorial candidates, political observers around the country […]

SINGAPORE — President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un came together for a momentous summit Tuesday that could chart a course for historic peace or raise the specter of a growing nuclear threat, with Kim saying the sit-down was a “good prelude for peace” and Trump pledging that “working together we will get it […]

NEW YORK — The fourth time was the charm for Tony Shalhoub. The actor won his first Tony Award after four nominations. The USM graduate is perhaps best known for his role as an obsessive-compulsive detective on television’s “Monk.” His Tony for best leading actor in a musical is for “The Band’s Visit.” In the musical, […]

  The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles will begin issuing this sticker for licenses for people who have completed a gender designation form. Courtesy of the Maine Secretary of State’s Office Maine will be the first state in New England and the third in the country to offer an option of a non-binary gender designation on […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for states to take a tougher approach to maintaining their voter rolls, but will they? Ohio plans to resume its process for removing inactive voters after it was affirmed in Monday’s 5-4 ruling. It takes a particularly aggressive approach that appears to be […]