SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A hunch from a retired detective helped lead police to a man suspected of shooting six people to death in the Phoenix area, some of whom were connected to his divorce, authorities said after the assailant killed himself with officers closing in. A round-the-clock investigation that began late last week led […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging deeper into a culture war that he’s repeatedly stoked, President Donald Trump called off a visit to the White House by the Philadelphia Eagles, citing the dispute over whether NFL players protesting racial injustice must stand during the playing of the national anthem. Trump said in a statement Monday that some […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort made several attempts to tamper with witnesses in his ongoing criminal case, prosecutors said as they asked a federal judge to consider jailing him while he awaits trial. In a court filing Monday, prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller wrote that Manafort and one of […]

WATERBORO — For the first time, Waterboro voters will cast ballots by referendum on the budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Voting will take place June 12 at Massabesic East, on the Massabesic High School campus. Last June, voters decided to abolish the traditional open Town Meeting, where registered voters would gather […]

The relatives of a 4-year-old girl killed in a hit-and-run incident a half-century ago in upstate New York said they feel relief that the man responsible for her death died at the hands of a hit-and-run driver Friday in Sanford. On Halloween night in 1968, Darlene Ashby McCann of Palermo, New York, was holding the […]

BIDDEFORD — Former President George H. W. Bush has been discharged from Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford, his spokesman, Jim McGrath, announced Monday afternoon on Twitter. The summer resident of Kennebunkport checked into the hospital last week with low blood pressure. Bush is spending his first summer in Maine since the death of his wife […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — A graduation can, at the same time,  be a bittersweet ending and a whole new beginning. While there are firm friendships and fond memories, there is also an excitement about the future and that big world, just waiting. At Old Orchard Beach on Sunday afternoon, 83 white and blue-gowned graduates marched […]

Prospects that a Boston investment firm might purchase and reopen Saddleback ski resort have dimmed, after the buyer’s request to include the Rangeley area in a tax-friendly investment zone was rebuffed by the LePage administration. In two letters to state officials this past winter, Jonathan Tower, managing partner of Arctaris Impact Fund, said the firm […]

BRUNSWICK — Caitlin Mance and Jacob Georgeson approached the Norumbega Cidery booth at the Crystal Spring farmers market on a late May morning, wearing the telltale expressions of uncertain but curious shoppers. Noah Fralich, the owner of the New Gloucester hard cider house, had the perfect icebreaker. “Would you like to try some cider?” Fralich […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the White House sharpened its legal and political defenses against the special counsel Russia probe, an attorney for President Donald Trump’s legal team made it clear that it would combat any effort to force the president to testify in front of a grand jury. Rudy Giuliani on Sunday underscored one of […]