BIDDEFORD — A seminary student from Biddeford has moved a step closer to his dream of becoming ordained as a Catholic priest. Seminarian Alex Boucher, who grew up attending St. Joseph Church in Biddeford was instituted into the ministry of lector during a Mass at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts on April 8.  This […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — It’s an incident that has stained the Vatican for 160 years: a 6-year-old Jewish boy taken from his family by papal police and brought to Rome to be raised Catholic after church authorities learned his housekeeper had secretly had him baptized. Now the case has reared its head again, with new […]

NEW YORK (AP) — For Earth Day, Julian Lennon hopes to lay the foundation for a whole new crop of environmentalists. He just has to wait a decade or two before they bloom. The firstborn son of the late John Lennon is the co-author of “Heal the Earth,” the second in his picture book series […]

ARUNDEL — An alert York County Sheriff’s deputy apprehended a suspect fleeing from the scene of an alleged motor vehicle burglary in Arundel on Thursday.    York County Sheriff William L. King, Jr. said that at about 10 a.m. Thursday, deputies were called to a home on Alfred Road in Arundel for a report of a […]

BIDDEFORD — On April 2, Biddeford had a five-alarm fire on 45 Hill St., during which one person died. When the call came in just before 9 a.m., and most of Biddeford Fire Department’s eight-member shift were on other calls, leaving only three firefighters at the station to respond to the call and to start […]

WATERBORO — A business network formed last fall to promote goods and services offered by people in the RSU 57 Massabesic school district has become so popular that a Business Expo planned for Wednesday has a vendor waiting list. The Massabesic Business Exchange Expo, set for 4 to 7 p.m. at the Southern Maine Health […]

BUXTON — A suspect who reported to Buxton Police that he had been stabbed by his girlfriend was himself arrested by officers for allegedly trying to run her over with his truck. According to Buxton Police, officers met with Corey Meserve of Buxton, 33, at the police department about 12;25 a.m. Friday and he told […]

WATERBORO — York County Sheriff’s deputies confronted a pipe-wielding suspect in Waterboro who allegedly was attempting to burglarize a home early Friday morning. According to York County Sheriff William L. King, Jr., deputies responded to a residence on Eon Way in Waterboro about 3 a.m. Friday for a report of a burglary in progress. The sheriff […]