By TAMMY WELLS Senior Staff Writer SANFORD — Michael Little, 7, plunked his passport down on a table brimming with fennel, mint, greens and garlic scapes and waited for Four Leaf Farm vendor Karen Hagan to apply a stamp: proof that he was there. He got to crush some fennel between his fingers and experience […]

By LIZ GOTTHELF Staff Writer SACO — The Executive Director of Saco Main Street will be stepping down from her position and the downtown organization will take some time to regroup and focus how it can continue to best serve the downtown. Nadeen DeSilva, who has been with Saco Main Street, formerly known as Saco […]

By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — To the untrained eye, the graph looked like a very volatile day on Wall Street ”“ jagged peaks and valleys in red, blue and green, displayed on a wall. But the story it told was not about economics. It was a glimpse into the brains […]

BIDDEFORD — Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson has declined to review Matt Lauzon’s claims that he was sexually abused as a teenager by a retired Biddeford police officer because he did not first agree to a set of conditions, which included handing over his medical records. In February, Lauzon, a Boston businessman who grew […]

BIDDEFORD — A conversation has begun and will continue throughout the summer about the way forward for the Second Congregational Church building ”“ the so-called “big white church” on Crescent Street. The building, which dates to 1861, is the home of the congregation ”“ and it is also home to an array of groups who […]

WASHINGTON — Heading to Europe, Defense Secretary Ash Carter is carrying a strong message of U.S. military support for American allies and Baltic nations to help calm growing concerns about Russian aggression. A key theme at all his stops will be how the United States, NATO and other partners can best deal with the Kremlin […]