The Law Enforcement Special Olympics Torch run stepped off  in Sanford Tuesday morning as officers from all over Maine do their part to see that the torch gets to Orono by Friday afternoon, in time for the opening of the Special Olympics State Summer Games. Sanford Police officers Sarah Howe and Andrew Simmons and Detective […]

A Windham man was cooling his heels in the Cumberland County Jail on Tuesday after being accused of leading police and bystanders on a harrowing, drug-fueled chase that ended when he ran onto Interstate 295 in an attempt to get into passing motorists’ cars, and was dragged twice as he clung to vehicles whose drivers […]

ALFRED — Carol Sharrow, charged with manslaughter in connection with the hit-and-run death of Douglas Parkhurst of West Newfield in Sanford Friday night has been ordered by a judge to undergo a mental health exam and to be held on $500,000 cash bail. York County Superior Court Justice Wayne Douglas ordered the mental health  exam […]

ACTON — A New Hampshire driver was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence following an incident and a crash in Acton early Saturday. According to York County Sheriff William L. King Jr., sheriff’s deputies were called to Willy’s Ale Room at 1060 Maine Route 109 in  Acton about midnight Saturday  for a report that […]

BIDDEFORD — March 27 is a night that Brenda Gobeil will never forget. On that night, a few days before his 60th birthday, her husband Mike had a heart attack in their Biddeford home. “When Mike came home from racquetball that night, everything was normal,” she said. “Then all of a sudden, I hear him […]

The Maine Superior Court on Monday ruled that the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and the LePage administration must follow the voter-passed Medicaid expansion law and submit a state plan amendment. The court set a deadline of Monday, June 11, for the state to file the amendment with the federal government. In November, […]

Portland police have identified the Saco woman who died Saturday evening after her ATV hit a tree in the North Deering neighborhood. Shelby Peters, 26, of Saco died at Maine Medical Center as the result of injuries she suffered in the crash, Lt. Robert Martin said in a statement Sunday evening. According to police, Peters […]

WATERVILLE — Police arrested a local woman Sunday night after responding to a fire call on Summer Street where a woman was allegedly burning her boyfriend’s possessions in the street. Waterville Police Chief Joe Massey said police were called to Summer Street around 8 p.m. Sunday night because of a fire in the street. Upon […]