WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) — Grammy-winning country music star Gretchen Wilson has been arrested at a Connecticut airport after police say she became “belligerent” toward troopers. The 45-year-old “Redneck Woman” singer from Lebanon, Tennessee, was charged with breach of peace Tuesday evening at Bradley International Airport, near Hartford. State police say troopers initially responded to […]

The Coast Guard is offering a cash reward for information about the theft of bells from navigational buoys off the Maine coast. Bells have been stolen from nine buoys in Penobscot Bay in the past nine months, according to the Coast Guard. The most recent theft was a 371-pound bell assembly taken from the White […]

Westbrook police are asking the public to help locate a teenager who is believed to have run away from home on Monday. Bridget Kelley, 16, was last seen wearing jeans and a burgundy zip-up sweatshirt, police said. “Her parents really want her home,” said Westbrook Police Capt. Sean Lally. If anyone has information about her […]

LIMINGTON — A landlord and a tenant, armed with a shotgun and a rifle, held two alleged burglars at bay until sheriff’s deputies arrived. The pair was discovered inside a barn adjacent to an apartment building on Ossipee Trail in Limington on Tuesday. Daniel Marcus Washington, 30, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was held at York […]

SANFORD — The rear tower of the Stenton Trust mill that burned more than a year ago in the largest fire in Sanford’s history, is poised for demolition starting at the end of September. That is the word from City Manager Steve Buck, who attended a meeting with U.S Environmental Protection Agency officials on Monday, […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Construction on a Dollar General at 19 Heath St. in Old Orchard Beach is expected to begin soon, according to a spokeswoman for the company. Dollar General spokeswoman Angela Petkovic said in an email that construction will begin “in the coming weeks.” She did not say when the store will open.  […]