WASHINGTON (AP) — A partial federal shutdown took hold early Saturday after Democrats refused to meet President Donald Trump’s demands for $5 billion to start erecting his cherished Mexican border wall, a chaotic postscript for Republicans in the waning days of their two-year reign controlling government. Vice President Mike Pence, Trump son-in-law and senior adviser […]

A Maine State Police trooper was hospitalized Friday after a tractor-trailer rammed into his cruiser on the Maine Turnpike in New Gloucester. He was being treated for multiple injuries that were described as not life-threatening. The crash happened near the Auburn city line shortly after 5 a.m., said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department […]

York police said they apprehended a 34-year-old man who apparently removed his clothes and shoes while attempting to flee a multi-vehicle crash Friday afternoon. Police Sgt. Brian Curtin said in a statement Friday night that emergency responders began receiving reports of a crash at Route 1 and Spur Road shortly before 3:30 p.m. Callers reported […]

NORRIDGEWOCK — Police on Thursday arrested an alleged drug dealer whose property was visited by John Williams the night Williams is alleged to have killed Cpl. Eugene Cole, of the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office. Richard Austin, 33, of Norridgewock, was arrested around 5:30 a.m. Thursday after a months-long investigation that culminated in a drug search […]

SCARBOROUGH — Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., the director of geriatrics education and research at the University of New England and its College of Osteopathic Medicine, received the Katherine Pope Leadership Award from Hospice of Southern Maine, the agency announced Friday. The award recognizes visionary leadership in advancing the work of hospice and supporting the mission of […]