YORK – Police said a vehicle stop on the Maine Turnpike in York on Tuesday night turned up 76 grams of fentanyl, 14 grams of cocaine and 1 gram of crack cocaine and resulted in a number of charges against the driver, who was out of jail on bail. Jeffrey Pinette, 43, of Sanford, was […]

WELLS – A traffic stop on the Maine Turnpike in Wells on Monday resulted in the arrest of a Dorchester, Massachusetts, suspect on drug charges. Damion Dunkley, 28, was arrested and charged with aggravated trafficking in Schedule W drugs after a search of his vehicle turned up an estimated 145 grams of crack cocaine, according […]

SACO — A Massachusetts developer with ties to other properties on the island has purchased Saco Island East. There was little fanfare Tuesday morning at a public auction, which was held on the Saco Island East property, a vacant six-acre parcel on the east side of Main Street on Saco Island, a small island that […]

ALFRED – An Acton woman who last year admitted to stabbing her former husband to death in February 2017 has lost her bid to withdraw her guilty plea to murder. Following a June hearing, York County Superior Court Justice Wayne Douglas on July 3 rendered his 22-page decision denying the motion by Kandee Weyland Collind. […]

DALLAS (AP) — H. Ross Perot rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty to become a self-made billionaire who twice ran for president with a mixture of folksy sayings and simple solutions to America’s problems. His 19% of the vote in 1992 stands among the best showings by an independent candidate in the last century. […]

LEWISTON — An Androscoggin County grand jury indicted a Biddeford man Tuesday on several charges related to a police chase from Lewiston to Monmouth in May. Allan D. Walsh, 46, was charged with felony counts of eluding an officer, aggravated operating after habitual offender revocation and unauthorized use of property. He was also charged with […]

ALFRED – A developer behind projects in Portland and Saco has been sued by a business partner who alleges he “squandered, embezzled and stole” money from their company to pay personal debts and maintain a lifestyle he could not afford. In the lawsuit against Bernard Saulnier, real estate broker John Veneziano says Saulnier took money […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — A new scholarship for Old Orchard Beach High School graduates is being established to honor the late Joel Barnes, a firefighter who died a hero on March 1. Barnes graduated from Old Orchard Beach High School in 2005. From a young age, his dream was to be a firefighter, and he […]

FALMOUTH — A legal dispute is heating up between family members over who can use the trademark for an iconic local pizzeria. George Sotiropoulos was set to open the new Foreside House of Pizza this week in the same Falmouth Shopping Center storefront where his parents previously ran the longtime Falmouth House of Pizza. The […]

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld on Tuesday the manslaughter conviction of woman who fatally stabbed a man in the town of Waldo. Victoria Scott, of Rockport, challenged testimony and sufficiency of the evidence and alleged prosecutorial misconduct, among other things. She’s serving 11 years in prison for the killing of 43-year-old Edwin Littlefield outside […]