SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Eight civilians, including a husband and wife and four members of another family, were killed when Indian and Pakistani soldiers fired at border posts and villages along the highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir, officials said Friday. An Indian soldier was also killed in the fighting. The cross-border firing and shelling […]

BIDDEFORD — Jacques and Yvette D. Pelletier of Biddeford are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with a private family dinner on May 18. This year, both Jacques and Yvette are also celebrating their 70th birthdays. Yvette Guillereault and Jacques Pelletier started their courtship in the early 1960s and were married on May 18, 1968, at St. […]

SACO — With warmer weather, children have already taken to their bicycles. Safe riding is very important. On Saturday, local youth can learn bicycle safety skills at the Saco Community Bike Rodeo. The rodeo will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at the Saco Public Works facility, 351 North St. The highlight of the […]

Gov. Paul LePage argued in court on Thursday that the administration can’t implement voter-approved Medicaid expansion because there wasn’t a “specific allocation” to do so. “Now that Medicaid expansion is the law, it is my responsibility to implement it, and I will,” LePage, a Republican and staunch opponent of Medicaid expansion, said in a statement […]

A woman from Maine was arrested Tuesday morning in Manchester, New Hampshire, after police say she overdosed behind the wheel of her minivan. with her 4-year-old child in the backseat, according to News Center Maine (WCSH).Officers found the woman and her son passed out in a car when they responded to a 911 call. The temperatures were […]

BIDDEFORD —A very special art opening is planned for this month’s Biddeford and Saco ArtWalk, which takes place on May 25. The Creative Trails’ The Art Certificate Program, or TACP, will showcase the work of four artists in the program and each will earn their Certificate of Art during the premiere Certificate Show. Creative Trails […]

AUGUSTA — Justices on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court seemed dubious Tuesday about a claim that the state’s fire safety code is too vague to enforce. Gregory Nisbet, who owned a Portland apartment house where six people died in a fire in November 2014, is appealing his code violation conviction to the state’s highest court. He […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Old Orchard Beach residents will have the final say on a proposed $14.1 million school budget on June 12. Last month, the Regional School Unit 23 School Board, serving the town of Old Orchard Beach, approved a $14.1 million fiscal year 2019 budget proposal. The budget proposal received a second approval […]

KENNEBUNKPORT — Former President George H.W. Bush plans to return to his summer home in Kennebunkport sometime during the week of May 21, a spokesman for the 41st president has confirmed. Bush plans to arrive next week, but spokesman Jim McGrath said that the exact day and time of arrival are still being worked out. Bush’s […]