AUGUSTA – A half-hour phone call the recently jailed Shawna Gatto placed to her fiancé, Stephen Hood, about a week after 4-year-old Kendall Chick died revealed a couple struggling to understand how it could have happened.  The phone call was played in its entirety Wednesday during day three of the trial of Gatto, who is […]

PHIPPSBURG – The Popham pilings are no more. On Tuesday, Phippsburg residents spotted a crane on a barge methodically plucking out the dilapidated pilings, the only remains of a long-abandoned pier used by the Eastern Steamship Lines company decades ago. The pilings’ fate was sealed over a year ago, when Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection […]

PHIPPSBURG — Police arrested a Phippsburg man Tuesday evening for allegedly assaulting a woman and cutting her with a knife. Police responded to a reported domestic assault on Lewis Way at around 6:15 p.m. after a woman had allegedly been threatened, assaulted and cut with a knife, according to a news release. The victim escaped to a […]

WATERVILLE — Former U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin called ranked-choice voting a “complete scam” puppeteered by out-of-state influences in front of a Colby audience on Tuesday evening.  He shared his perspective on the process at a talk sponsored by Colby Republicans, a student organization.  “It’s no longer the best candidate, it’s how you game the system,” he said.  […]

A judge found a Sanford woman not criminally responsible and ordered her committed to Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta for driving onto a baseball field and killing a man last year.  Two psychologists testified Tuesday in York County Superior Court that Carol Sharrow was experiencing a manic episode at the time. Neither the prosecutor nor the defense […]

AUGUSTA — When Christie Davis’ 21-year marriage finally ended after years of domestic abuse, she was financially ruined largely because her ex-husband, she said, had taken control of all of her assets over the years, including refinancing the couple’s home into his name alone.  “He transferred balances, maxed my cards out and I didn’t tell him no, […]

The clock atop Biddeford City Hall is being restored, four years after it stopped working and more than 100 years after it was originally installed.  Employees of Balzer Family Clock Works removed the E. Howard & Co. clock from the city hall clock tower last Friday and brought it to a Freeport workshop for repairs.  […]