The 33-year-old woman charged this year in the murder of her child gave birth Wednesday to a boy, her father said. Joseph Kennedy said he received a call notifying him that Sharon Carrillo gave birth to a healthy boy weighing 7 pounds. Sharon and her husband, Julio Carrillo Jr., 51, are charged with the depraved indifference […]

Maine’s vaccination coverage for students entering kindergarten worsened in 2017-18, making outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles, chicken pox and pertussis more likely. Five percent of kindergartners – about 600 students of the 12,500 in that grade – attended school this year without getting required vaccines because their parents opted out on philosophic or religious […]

BIDDEFORD — A budget that will raise the tax rate for property owners by about 2 percent is the result of months of work by Biddeford City Council. Despite working on the fiscal year 2019 budget since March, council members waited until the final hours on Tuesday to make some significant changes to the $32.4 […]

SANFORD — A Wells clergyman who was convicted of misdemeanor assault following a 2016 incident where he placed his hand on a 15-year-old girl’s back at a fast food restaurant and told her “jeans looked nice … nice and tight in all the right places,” has lost an appeal. Peter W. Leon, 66, who has […]

SACO — Eighteen graduating seniors at Biddeford High School were honored Wednesday for making their mark in the community. The students, all members of the school’s Interact Club, a service group sponosred by the Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club, were given medallions for completing community service work at the rotary club’s weekly meeting at Run of the […]