PORTLAND — A Connecticut man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for distributing drugs from Biddeford “trap houses.” Erick Adams, also known as “X,” 40, of Taftville, Connecticut, was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in prison and five years of supervised release, according to U.S. Attorney Halsey Frank. Adams pleaded guilty on June […]

SANFORD — This didn’t really happen — it was a mock crash — but such events do take place in Maine and in locations across the nation. The driver of a sedan is distracted by texting and slams into the side of a schoolbus loaded with youngsters. There is silence, quickly followed by screams and cries. […]

BUXTON — A Buxton man was arrested on Mother’s Day and charged with threatening his mother with a handgun. Buxton police were called to 768 Parker Farm Road around 7:55 p.m. Sunday in response to a report that a woman had fled the home after being threatened by 26-year-old Adam Sanborn. Sanborn was alone in […]

SACO — After lengthy discussion, a nearly $27.4 million Saco municipal budget has been approved and a $39.3 million school budget proposal. The City Council made the decisions on Monday night at a meeting that lasted more than five hours. The combined budget is estimated to increase the mil rate 53 cents to $19.91. The […]

A three-car crash on the Maine Turnpike in Scarborough caused significant traffic delays between Saco and Scarborough on Tuesday morning. Cpl. Duane Doughty of the Maine State Police said traffic was slowing near mile 40 northbound in Scarborough around 7:45 a.m. when a driver failed to slow down and rear-ended a car. That car was […]

PORTLAND — Glenn Brackett, 49, of Biddeford also was ordered to undergo three years of supervised release during his sentencing in U.S. District Court in Portland by Judge George Z. Singal, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank said in a statement. Brackett entered the Infiniti Federal Credit Union in Arundel on Aug. 16, 2017, approached a […]

Sanford Junior High School eighth grade band students visited area cemeteries on Monday to clean and lay plants at the grave sites of the veterans lost during World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and to install a grave stone for World War I veteran Arthur W. Dexter. His […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and a group of fellow governors are backing President Donald Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing what they called Trump’s “transformative efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula.” In a letter this week to Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Berit Reiss-Andersen, McMaster and six fellow […]