CORNISH — Who are they? What were their circumstances? Some questions surrounding the skeletal remains found here earlier this month during a construction project at town hall linger. Some questions have been answered, but some, selectmen say, may never be answered. In all, the bones of 10 people were unearthed. Officials had thought eight sets […]

BOSTON — Thomas Menino, Boston’s longest-serving mayor whose mumbling and occasional bumbling belied his political ingenuity and endeared him to a scrappy city whose very skyline he helped reshape, died Thursday. He was 71. Menino died in the company of his family and friends, spokeswoman Dot Joyce said. He had been diagnosed with advanced cancer […]

SACO — St. Augustine of Canterbury held a bottle drive on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 168 North St. in Saco. All funds raised during the event, which was held on the front lawn at the church location in the Grange Building, are used to support the homeless and less fortunate in York County. During the […]

WASHINGTON — Call it drugs for the departed: Medicare’s prescription program kept paying for costly medications even after patients were dead. The problem was traced back to a head-scratching bureaucratic rule that’s now getting a second look. A report coming out Friday from the Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general says the Medicare rule […]

BIDDEFORD — Roly-polys, salamanders and fungi were some of the findings by Biddeford Middle School seventh-grade students, as they lifted logs and investigated the forest behind the school. Looking for what lies beneath the logs was just one of the activities students were participating in Wednesday, as part of program called Project Learning Tree. All […]