PORTLAND (AP) — Attorneys in Maine are reviewing statements given to police by the close friend of a 16-yearold girl whose boyfriend was convicted of her murder in 1992. The Portland Press Herald reports attorneys on Wednesday discussed statements made by Gloria Staples in the murder investigation of Jessica Briggs. Staples told investigators Anthony Sanborn […]

NEW VINEYARD (AP) — The 4-year-old child whose leg was severed in an accident involving a front-end loader at a Maine gravel pit is in stable condition. The Sun-Journal reports Adam Mattson, of New Vineyard, lost his right leg Monday while he was with his grandfather at the family’s gravel pit. Jessica Harris, a family […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — The owner of two pit bulls that were ordered to be put down for killing a Boston terrier says the dogs got loose and ran off minutes after Maine’s high court upheld the euthanasia order. Winslow police Chief Shawn O’Leary called it “suspicious, to say the least.” The Morning Sentinel reports the […]

OGUNQUIT (AP) — A second actress is accusing former President George H.W. Bush of inappropriate touching. Jordana Grolnick says Bush grabbed her buttocks during a group photo last year at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. She told Deadspin that Bush quipped that his favorite magician is “David Cop-a- Feel” and grabbed her. She said Barbara […]

ROME (AP) — A lakeside retreat created by an Army veteran who lost all four limbs in an explosion in Afghanistan is extending its inaugural season by four weeks. The Travis Mills Foundation was supposed to serve 57 veterans and their families in Rome, Maine. The extension of the season will bring that number to […]

CAMDEN (AP) — Police say a 90-year-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle while lying on the roadway on U.S. 1. Police say a person called 911 to report that a man in sleeping clothes was on the roadway and then tried unsuccessfully to flag down a dump truck before it ran over […]

BATH Bath Middle School is now home to the state’s largest bicycle pump track. “ It’s right in between BMS and the skate park. This is the largest indoor skatepark in the state of Maine, and that’s now the largest pump track in the state of Maine,” said BMS teacher Lawrence Kovacs. The pump track […]

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has blocked the release of hundreds of records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, bending to CIA and FBI appeals, while the National Archives came out Thursday night with a hefty cache of others. “I have no choice,” Trump said in a memo, citing “potentially irreversible harm” to national […]