WEST BATH — The F.W. Webb Company’s wholesale store in West Bath has collected and donated more than 60 new bicycles to Toys for Tots of Central Maine. “Having a bicycle to ride is something no child should be denied,” said store manager Mike Blagdon. “We are so grateful to the customers and vendors who […]

SCARBOROUGH (AP) — State officials in Maine want Interstate 295 travelers to know Santa isn’t only watching as they sleep. The Portland Press Herald reports the state Department of Transportation on Wednesday changed the message on its variable-message signs between Scarborough and West Gardiner to say: “Santa sees you when you are speeding.” Spokesman Ted […]

KENNEBUNK (AP) — No children were hurt after police say a vehicle apparently slid out of control and hit a school bus on state Route 35 in Maine. Kennebunk police say four elementary students were aboard the bus when the crash happened around 7:30 a.m. Thursday. The driver of the vehicle suffered minor injuries and […]

WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump has re-opened the debate over nuclear proliferation, calling for the United States to “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability” until the rest of the world “comes to its senses” regarding nuclear weapons. His comments Thursday on Twitter came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said strengthening his country’s nuclear capabilities […]

NEW YORK Dozens of people were injured in a fire at a high-rise building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The blaze broke out in a third floor apartment just before 5 p.m. Thursday and spread to the fourth floor before it was extinguished at about 6:30 p.m. New York Fire Department officials said of the […]

LOUISVILLE, KY. Authorities say a man known as the “Godfather of Grass” has been arrested in Canada after eight years on the run. The U.S. Marshals Service says authorities sought John Robert “Johnny” Boone after they seized 2,400 marijuana plants on his Kentucky farm. The agency said he was arrested Thursday when information led authorities […]

HOBOKEN, N.J. When a New Jersey Transit commuter train plowed off the end of a track in September, killing a woman standing in the Hoboken station and injuring more than 100 others, the last thing in its way was a concrete-and-steel bumper that was in place when the station opened in 1907. Experts say more […]

MADISON, WIS. A Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” has no basis for his claims that his confession wasn’t voluntary and shouldn’t be released from prison as a judge has ordered, state attorneys argued in a court filing. Brendan Dassey, now 27, was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in […]

NEW YORK President- elect Donald Trump’s boyhood home in New York City is going back on the auction block. Paramount Realty says the 1940 Tudor-style house in Jamaica Estates in Queens is being offered Jan. 17. That’s three days before Trump takes the oath of office and two months after the house was withdrawn from […]