LOS ANGELES — New details on a cyberattack against JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s computer servers this summer add to increasing doubts over the security of consumer data kept by lenders, retailers and others. The New York-based bank disclosed Thursday that the breach compromised customer information pertaining to roughly 76 million households and 7 million small […]

ORONO (AP) — About 1,500 people are expected to attend a rally in Orono with first lady Michelle Obama, who’s stopping in Maine to support Democrat Mike Michaud’s gubernatorial bid. Obama and the six-term congressman will be joined by Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, at the event Friday at the Collins […]

SANFORD — More than 400 volunteers from Curtis Lake Church participated in a community cleanup last weekend. The annual event, called “Unthinkable,” loads teams of volunteers onto school buses and delivers them to neighborhoods throughout Sanford and Springvale. Detailed maps help ensure trash is picked up on every street in the city, the church states, and […]

CONCORD, N.H. — A cousin of one of the world’s most notorious drug lords who prosecutors say was working to expand the cartel’s reach to Europe and northern New England faces up to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty Thursday in New Hampshire. Jesus Gutierrez-Guzman admitted that he planned to distribute more than […]

The leaves on this tree along Route 4 in North Berwick, pictured recently, show the spectrum of hues that can be expected to brighten and spread throughout the foliage season here in southern Maine. To read all about it and the science behind it, see the feature in the Journal Tribune Weekend edition.

NEW YORK — The lid has been lifted on a fierce internal battle at the nation’s oldest Episcopal seminary, which has lost most of its faculty over what they say is their dean’s intimidating, disrespectful leadership. Eight of 10 professors who trained future priests at the General Theological Seminary in Manhattan say they were fired […]