Richard Crocker, 36, faces charges of domestic violence criminal threatening for allegedly forbidding his family leave.
2012
York police issue warrant in bank robbery
The Manchester, N.H., man is suspected of robbing the Savings Bank of Maine in York on Nov. 23.
Occupy Maine to clean up Portland encampment
The group is conducting a cleanup of Lincoln Park on Saturday and Sunday.
Huntsman objects to ad featuring his adopted kids
The GOP contender says Ron Paul’s supporters are out of line in using the girls to argue that Huntsman is un-American. Watch video.
Romney raps Obama in SC; GOP rivals pile on in NH
Romney keeps up his criticism of Obama as a jobs killer even though the Labor Department today reports that employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent.
Smoggy Beijing to cough up more pollution data
The decision appears aimed at appeasing residents’ anger over the pollution and a lack of government transparency.
Standish arsonist indicted
Carol Field, the 66-year-old Standish resident and former Standish Subway sandwich shop employee accused of setting fire to the Raymond Hill Baptist Church and multiple other fires, has been indicted by a York County grand jury on five additional counts of arson. Field’s Portland-based attorney John Paul DeGrinney had no comment when contacted Friday. Field […]
Photo: Seizing the moment
Calla Stark, 5, of Portland pulls her little brother Broder, 2, on his sled at the Eastern Prom during this morning’s snowfall. The National Weather Service was forecasting the snow would end by about 1 p.m. Click here for a detailed forecast.
Well, just in case: a winter survival app
The free program, available for iPhones and Android smartphones, is both a primer to help motorists prepare for winter driving and a beacon when things go badly.
Pope names 22 new cardinals, including 2 Americans
The two Americans: Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York and Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and the former archbishop of Baltimore.