WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when they were students at Yale has agreed to cooperate with an FBI investigation, her lawyer said. Deborah Ramirez’s lawyer, John Clune, said Saturday that agents want to interview Ramirez, who said Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a […]

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The phone call telling Cher she was a Kennedy Center honoree was certainly welcome — but she admits she wanted to get it earlier. The Grammy, Emmy and Oscar winner, whose ABBA-tribute album “Dancing Queen” was just released, acknowledged she’d long hoped for that call. She said she “wanted to […]

FREEPORT — He’d heard his mother crying behind the closed bedroom door one too many times. She had had a child out of wedlock 18 years earlier. The church had excommunicated her. He was the child. Several of his friends had private grievances of their own with the Catholic clergy of Waterville, then a powerful […]

Vandals damaged a hayfield sometime late Thursday night or Friday morning at the Sabbathday Village Shaker Farm in New Gloucester. A post on the Shaker’s Facebook page included photos of deep tire tracks left in the field. “Authorities were contacted, but unfortunately very little can be done unless the perpetrators are caught,” the post read. […]

Two people were arrested on charges of trafficking fentanyl after they were stopped Friday on Interstate 295 in Portland. Maine State Police arrested Jacob Ingraham, 22, of Jefferson and Hannah Hewes, 20, of Wiscasset after a search of their vehicle, which was stopped about 1:30 a.m. by officers from Troop G and the Pro-Active Criminal […]

A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a pickup truck early Saturday afternoon on Route 26 in Gray. Bruce Smith, 56, of Standish was riding a 2011 Can-Am Spyder when he failed to stop at a stop sign and ran into the side of a Ford F-350, driven by Ryan Glidden, 37, of Gray, […]

PARIS (AP) — Diesel is in the doghouse. There’s a global fight over trade. Brexit is looming. Tighter vehicle emissions rules are on the way. Those are among the challenges facing auto executives as they gather this week at the Paris Motor Show to unveil new vehicles and talk about the industry’s future. A number of carmakers, […]