DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In a barn down a gravel road in Iowa, Joe Biden tore into President Donald Trump’s moral character, declaring in one of the fiercest speeches of his campaign that the words of the American president matter. The next day, Biden’s own words tripped him up. He told an audience in Des Moines […]

LEWISTON — Ten families, most of them originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, are moving from the temporary shelter of the Portland Expo to permanent homes in Lewiston. The families began moving last week into privately owned apartments scattered around the downtown and Little Canada. On Friday, the Congolese Community of Maine, a Portland-based […]

Two men have been charged in connection with Thursday’s discovery of methamphetamine materials inside a car on Somerset Street in Portland. Shane Maloney, 28, of Portland, and Jeffrey Makela, 33, of Standish, were each charged with operating a methamphetamine laboratory using a motor vehicle, a Class B felony punishable by up to 10 years in […]

For just the third time in six years, a developer will be required to purchase “air rights” from the city of Portland in order to complete a construction project. Developers of the upscale Verdante condominium project along Franklin Street have applied for a license agreement that would permit them to build bay windows that jut […]

WATERVILLE — There is nothing old or tired about the art on view as part of a new Wabanaki exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art. There are no arrowheads, yellowing documents or other reminders of the wars and broken treaties that have defined Indian life in Maine and across North America since the […]

KENNEBUNKPORT — The following individuals were arrested or issued a summons by Kennebunkport Police from June 27 to July 25, 2019: • Edward Sousa, 77, of Kennebunkport, was issued a summons for criminal threatening after officers responded to a disturbance on Community House Road. He is scheduled to appear at the Biddeford District Court on […]