PRESQUE ISLE — A crop specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension is informing the state’s potato farmers that they might need to reduce use of a widely used pesticide that controls blight. Steven Johnson said national and international changes in the regulation of a fungicide called chlorothalonil could prompt the changes, the Bangor […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Friends” is getting old. Its fans have never been younger. As the sitcom about six twentysomethings marks its 25th anniversary on Sunday, it has spawned a devoted youthful viewership, especially among tween and teen girls who weren’t yet born when it went off the air in 2004. In an era when […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lee Boyd Malvo, who terrorized the Washington region in 2002 as one-half of a sniper team, is at the center of a case the Supreme Court will hear this fall. But the justices’ eventual ruling probably will mean less for him than for a dozen other inmates who, like the now-34-year-old Malvo, […]

NEWFIELD – Maine State Police and the York County Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s help in locating a mentally challenged man from Newfield who has been missing since late morning, said Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland. David Penney,  63, was last seen about 11 a.m. Saturday on the Demeritt Road in West Newfield. Penney […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump urged the new leader of Ukraine this summer to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a person familiar with the matter said. Democrats condemned what they saw as a clear effort to damage a political rival, now at the heart of an explosive whistleblower complaint against […]