BEIJING (AP) — China has balked at stepping up its purchases of American products, raising the odds of a trade war, if President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to tax billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese imports. The warning from Beijing came after delegations led by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and China’s […]

Maine State Police have identified the body of woman found Saturday near the intersection of Route 3 and West Street in Bar Harbor as that of 19-year-old Mikaela Conley of Bar Harbor. Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said in a statement late Sunday that the state medical examiner’s office confirmed […]

Two people were injured Saturday afternoon after jumping out of a moving pickup truck whose brakes malfunctioned on a logging road in northern Somerset County, according to the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office. Damien Raymond, 34, of Oakland, and Julie York, 31, of Skowhegan, were returning from fishing on Palmer Pond Road in Mayfield Plantation around […]

  SACO  — The 380 members of the Thornton Academy Class of 2018 assembled at Hill Stadium on Sunday’s graduation ceremony to celebrate the end of their high school career and embrace a new beginning. “High school graduation is a true milestone. It often marks the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood,” said […]

SANFORD — The man who was killed by a hit-and-run driver at a Babe Ruth baseball game at Goodall Park in Sanford on Friday night confessed to an unsolved hit-and-run death of a 4-year-old girl in Fulton, New York, 44 years after the girl’s death. Douglas Parkhurst, 68, of West Newfield, a Vietnam War veteran […]

SANFORD — As Carol Sharrow barreled her maroon Honda sedan back through the gate at Goodall Park, Tim Curley jumped behind a concrete barrier to avoid getting hit. But he was close enough to the car that he recognized Sharrow, who had been a caregiver for his grandmother about 12 years ago. “I was shocked,” […]

SPRINGVALE – A homeowner is believed to have died in a fire at 234 Deering Neighborhood Road in Springvale on Sunday. Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said that fire investigators believe the identity of the man to be the owner of the property, Charles Kerrigan. The man’s body was found in the garage which […]

SANFORD — The woman accused of killing a West Newfield man with her car after driving onto the field during a Babe Ruth baseball game at Goodall Park on Friday night has two convictions for drunken driving, according to police. Carol Sharrow, 51, of Sanford was charged with manslaughter in the death of Douglas Parkhurst, 68. […]

BUXTON — While conducting a routine property check of a park in Buxton, police officers broke up an after-hours party and arrested several suspects on Thursday night. According to a Facebook post by Buxton Police, Buxton Officer James Bradbury was doing a property check at Pleasant Point Park at about 9:44 p.m. Thursday when he […]

LIMINGTON — Sheriff’s deputies found evidence of a meth lab when arresting a Limington resident on a warrant. York County Sheriff’s Deputies went to 2 Wenzhou Road in Limington on Thursday to arrest 44-year-old Patrick Gomes on an outstanding warrant charging him with failing to appear in court, according to Maine Public Safety Spokesman Steve McCausland. […]