PARIS (AP) — A Maine woman accused of being drunk and reading a text message at the time of a double-fatal car crash has been convicted of vehicular manslaughter. Jurors acquitted 21-year-old Kristina Lowe of West Paris of drunken driving Thursday but returned guilty verdicts for manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident. Lowe’s […]

When Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks arrived in America recently, representatives of the United States government did not greet him with a demand that Great Britain’s former chief rabbi remove his yarmulke while in public. That’s a good thing. But there are places ”“ France leaps to mind ”“ where this would not be the case. […]

BOSTON — Humpback whales are flooding into the coastal waters of Massachusetts this season with 20 to 30 whales spotted on every whale watching excursion out of Boston, a hefty increase over the two or three that are usually spotted. Large numbers of an eel-like fish called the sand lance are turning the mouth of […]

BIDDEFORD — In advance of the Biddeford City Council taking action on the issue, on Tuesday the public had their say on whether they thought consolidating the current three polling sites to a single location at the Biddeford High School Tiger gym was a good idea. Lack of parking at most locations, cramped quarters at […]

LEWISTON — Bishop Robert P. Deeley will celebrate Memorial Day Mass in the Mausoleum Chapel at St. Peter’s Cemetery on Monday, May 26 at 10 a.m. The cemetery is located on 217 Switzerland Road in Lewiston.  “Memorial Day is a time to remember those who kept the faith and died in service to our country,” […]

EASTPORT (AP) — Authorities say a search of a 14-acre property in Eastport did not turn up any signs of an eastern Maine woman who went missing a decade ago. State and local police with dog teams searched the tract of land behind Marilyn Lehan’s former Eastport home on Thursday. Lehan, who would be 59, […]

DUBLIN — Northern Ireland police announced Thursday they will sue to obtain all of the audiotaped interviews of former militants who described their wartime careers to a Boston College oral history project, a move designed to reopen scores of “cold case” murder investigations in the British territory. Police last year successfully sued Boston College to […]

Tulips are pictured last week in Springvale Square.