WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has delivered a formal request to Iran for the return of a U.S. surveillance drone captured by Iranian armed forces, but said it is not hopeful that Iran will comply. President Barack Obama said Monday that the U.S. wants the top-secret aircraft back. “We have asked for it back. […]

BRUNSWICK A 40-year-old Brunswick woman convicted of stealing nearly $60,000 in food stamps and child care reimbursement benefits will serve at least 13 months in Cumberland County Jail and pay restitution for the improperly received benefits. Sarah E. Fairbanks, of 467 Durham Road, was sentenced Monday to five years in prison with all but 13 […]

RICHMOND Federal and state officials announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $10.8 million in grant funding to help replace the 80-year-old bridge that spans the Kennebec River between Richmond and Dresden. This competitive grant funding is provided through the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program, according to a press release […]

FREEPORT A Cumberland County grand jury indicted a Freeport man suspected of stealing more than $3,000 in copper fittings and piping from a home construction site on Newfield Road. According to a Cumberland County District Attorney’s indictment list released Friday, 31-year-old Linwood Maynard Grover III of Litchfield Road now faces one charge of Class C […]

BRUNSWICK In direct response to a Maine Freedom of Access Act inquiry by The Times Record and another newspaper, the Maine Attorney General’s Office determined that meetings of an advisory group of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) need not be open to the public. That advisory group, which includes two Brunswick town […]

The Times Record reserves this space to correct errors appearing in our news columns. We ask readers who are aware of factual errors to telephone Managing Editor Robert Long at 729-3311. A report on page A4 of Friday’s edition should have stated that a Chrysler driven by Barbara Angell, 70, of Bath, crossed the center […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, commit the bulk of the China- based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cybersecurity analysts and experts. The aggressive but stealthy attacks, which have stolen billions of dollars in intellectual […]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — The warning signs were there for more than a decade, disturbing indicators that Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was breaching boundaries with young boys — or maybe worse. Yet the university’s top administrators kept allowing, even encouraging, Sandusky to invite some of those boys into campus sports buildings […]