LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sander Vanocur, a television newsman who for decades covered momentous events from political campaigns to assassinations, the Vietnam War to the civil rights movement, has died, his son said Tuesday. Vanocur died Monday night in Santa Barbara, California, said Chris Vanocur. He was 91. He had been dealing with dementia in […]

A Portland man has pleaded guilty to murdering his domestic partner in early 2018. Anthony Leng, now 42, was accused in the shooting death 36-year-old Sokha Khuon after a domestic argument. He had pleaded not guilty and, as of Friday, was scheduled for trial in less than two weeks. But he abruptly changed his plea […]

Maine’s trees are starting to show flashes of yellow, orange and red — mostly in northern parts of the state. Northern Maine is reporting less than 30 percent color change with less than 10 percent leaf drop, according to the 2019 Fall Foliage Report from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry. “We’ve been […]

Ask Sam Hayward, co-owner and founding chef of Fore Street, what the famed Portland restaurant might be serving 50 years from now, and he obligingly jumps into an imaginary time capsule to visit 2069 and check out the menu. The question assumes that little has been done since 2019 to put the brakes on climate […]

The mother of a 1-year-old girl who died in Bangor last year is accused of repeatedly rubbing heroin on the girl’s gums to help her sleep in the months before the girl died from exposure to fentanyl, according to court documents. Kimberly Nelligan, 33, of Bangor pleaded not guilty Wednesday to endangering the welfare of […]

GRAND ABACO, Bahamas (AP) — A handful of men hover around Gayle Wallace as she hands out four fish sandwiches with a dab of ketchup on each at the cramped home she rents in Murphy Town. Some are friends, others family. All are part of a new community of survivors emerging nearly three weeks after […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Community members are invited on Thursday night to meet with officials from the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, as the league has expressed interest in locating a team in Old Orchard Beach. A meet and greet will be held with Director of Operation for the Can-Am League Kevin Winn  and Greg Lockard, […]

ARUNDEL – An Arundel man and an Ellsworth woman died Monday when their pickup truck overturned at mile 217 on I-95. A third person in the 2004 Chevrolet pick-up truck also was injured in the afternoon crash. Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said the driver, Michael Dentico, 63, of Arundel was pronounced dead at […]

KENNEBUNK — Somewhere out there in the great beyond, legendary painter Norman Rockwell doubled over with laughter at the lengths that a group of Kennebunk residents went to create a Rockwell-esque scene for a photograph that will be included in the town’s bicentennial celebration next year. Rockwell became famous for his Saturday Evening Post cover […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration tried to balance diplomacy with fresh talk of military action Tuesday in response to the fiery missile and drone attack on the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry — a strike marking the most explosive consequence yet of the “maximum pressure” U.S. economic campaign against Iran. Secretary of State […]