NEW YORK (AP) — Penny Marshall was typically self-effacing whenever her brother, the late filmmaker Garry Marshall, proudly boasted that his sister was the first female director to direct a $100 million box-office hit. “They didn’t give ME the money,” Marshall joked in 2012 to The New Yorker. Marshall, the “Laverne & Shirley” star who […]

BIDDEFORD — Perhaps author Edna Ferber put it best when she said that Christmas isn’t really a season, it’s a feeling. And who better to epitomize the spirit of Christmas than jolly ol’ Santa Claus himself. The annual visitor from the North is once again gearing up for his overnight ride and deliveries of gifts […]

BIDDEFORD — Representatives from schools across Maine attended a celebration Dec. 11 hosted at Berlin City in Portland and at that event both Biddeford High School and Dayton Consolidated School were awarded $1,500 and $2,000 respectively from Berlin City’s Drive for Education grant. The Drive for Education is a forward-looking program created by the employees of Berlin City Auto […]

BIDDEFORD — Earlier this month, the city of Biddeford learned it was awarded a $15,000 grant that will be used to create a broadband plan and identify the high-speed internet needs in the city’s low- to moderate-income neighborhoods. “We don’t even know where high-speed internet is” in the city,  Economic Development Coordinator Brad Favreau said. […]

PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) — A hefty hog has been captured near a school bus stop in Florida. Florida Today reports the nearly 400-pound (181-kilogram) hog was captured over the weekend by a team of dogs and trappers in Palm Bay. Melbourne wildlife trapper James Dean received a call reporting “a very large boar hog” that was […]

BIDDEFORD — With Christmas Day and New Year’s Day both falling on a Tuesday this year, the cities of Biddeford and Saco have altered trash collection schedules for the next two weeks. In Biddeford, trash normally collected on Tuesday, Dec. 25 will be picked up on Wednesday, Dec. 26. Those who have trash picked up […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A New Hampshire husband and wife accused of using Chinese nationals in a sex-trafficking operation in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are going to be detained until at least next week. Detention hearings were delayed Tuesday for 37-year-old Sou Chao Li and his wife, 37-year-old Derong Maio, of Concord, New Hampshire. The […]