WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials have approved a new option for some women battling ovarian cancer: a drug that targets a genetic mutation seen in a subset of hard-to-treat tumors. The Food and Drug Administration cleared the drug, Rubraca, from Clovis Oncology Inc. for women in advanced stages of the disease who have already […]

SANFORD — The York County Advocacy Group, formed a few years ago to track and support state legislation that affects York County communities,  agreed to pursue opioid treatment, workforce development, a build-up to full revenue sharing and a host of other issues when they met Thursday. But they agreed to disagree about the location of  […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A Democratic presidential elector created an uproar by voting for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders before backing down and supporting Hillary Clinton, overshadowing Maine’s first time ever splitting its electoral votes for president. Maine made history by giving electoral votes to both major party candidates — one for Republican President-elect Donald Trump and three for Clinton, a Democrat. […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — An ordained Pagan priest finally has gotten the OK to sport goat horns in his Maine driver’s license photo. Maine resident Phelan Moonsong said that unless he’s sleeping or bathing, he always wears his goat horns, which serve as his spiritual antennae and help him educate others about Paganism. But Moonsong is […]

AUBURN (AP) — A Maine man is due to be sentenced in the hit-and-run killing of his pregnant former girlfriend. Evaristo De Deus pleaded guilty to murder in October in Androscoggin Count Superior Court, and prosecutors are seeking a 45-year sentence on Tuesday. Police say the Lewiston man intentionally struck Laudrinha Kubeloso from behind with an […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine lobster boat owner had been drinking and using marijuana and oxycodone before he lost two crew members during a 2014 fishing trip, federal prosecutors said Monday in charging him with seaman’s manslaughter. Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Hutchinson, of Cushing, Maine, was arrested and charged by indictment. A call to his defense attorney, […]

SKOWHEGAN (AP) – The Maine state fire marshal’s office says a woman who was seriously injured in a mobile home fire earlier in December has died. Police say on Monday that 53-year-old Michelle Sweet died last week at Maine Medical Center. Investigators say the fire started when Sweet was smoking while on oxygen. The fire took place […]

YARMOUTH (AP) — A driver was arrested after police say his minivan struck two police cruisers, injuring an officer, on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth. Police say cruisers from Yarmouth and Freeport were at the scene of an accident early Sunday when the minivan hit the vehicles. They say the northbound lanes had been shut down […]