BIDDEFORD — Allegations of child sexual abuse against two now retired Biddeford police officers dominated the headlines this year. Matt Lauzon, a Boston businessman who grew up in Biddeford, claimed in February that he was abused as a boy by an ex-officer, prompting several other men to make similar allegations against the same man and […]

SANFORD — In September, city leaders applied a turbocharger to its Sanford economic engine, announcing plans to build the largest municipal fiber network in Maine. The 32- mile municipal broadband network will be capable of Internet upload and download speeds as fast as 10 gigabits-per-second, which proponents say is a necessary component to encourage economic […]

SACO — In August, a fatal stabbing at the Shaw’s supermarket near Spring Street rocked the community. Connor MacCalister, a 31-year-old woman who at times has identified as a man, told police she stabbed 59-year-old local grandmother Wendy Boudreau in the throat at the ice cream aisle of the grocery store because she was angry […]