WASHINGTON — Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republicans’ newest point man on the Benghazi attack, is a seasoned prosecutor determined to apply his well-honed courtroom skills to an election-year examination of the Obama administration’s actions. Tapped by House Speaker John Boehner, the two-term South Carolina congressman will lead a special select committee investigating the chaotic night […]

SANFORD — Maine Connections Academy, the state’s first full-time, tuition-free virtual public charter school for students in grades 7-12, will host a free information session from 6-7:30 p.m. tonight, May 7, at Goodall Library, 952 Main St. in Sanford, for families interested in learning more about how the virtual school works. Maine Connections Academy will […]

BOSTON — A settlement filed with a federal bankruptcy judge would create a fund of more than $100 million to compensate victims of a nationwide meningitis outbreak linked to a Massachusetts pharmacy, lawyers said Tuesday. The outbreak, blamed on a tainted steroid produced by the New England Compounding Center, sickened more than 750 people in 20 […]

WESTBROOK (AP) — A man who helped police find his father’s body was charged with murder following the release of a medical examiner’s report, Maine State Police said Tuesday. Twenty-four-year-old Leroy Smith III was charged a day after police said he provided them with the information that led them to the body of his father, […]

SANFORD — The owners of Pleasant River Lumber on New Dam Road say the sawmill is doing well and is now poised for a $750,000 expansion. “The facility has been outstanding … and now it needs to grow,” Jason Brochu, co-president of the lumber company with his brother, Chris, told the city council Tuesday. He […]

FRYEBURG (AP) — The organizer of an annual trash cleanup event in parts of New Hampshire and Maine says she’s concerned about the number of discarded medical needles that were found. Valley Pride Day organizer Donna Woodward of Fryeburg, Maine, tells WMWV-FM more than 60 cubic yards of trash and recyclables were collected in North […]