WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing growing accusations of racism over his incendiary tweets, President Donald Trump on Sunday tried to deflect the criticism by labeling a prominent minority congressman as himself racist and accusing Democrats of trying to “play the race card.” Trump assailed Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., as a racist after the president’s criticisms of […]

GORHAM — More than a hundred farms around Maine celebrated the 30th annual Open Farm Day on Sunday, a chance for the public to meet farmers and support agricultural businesses from Kennebunkport to Caribou. Strawberry picking, wine tastings, goat-milk yogurt, goat-milk caramel sauce – visitors had a chance to sample it all, as well as […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox recorded “Sisters Are Doin’ it For Themselves” in 1985, the Queen of Soul tried out a pointed ad lib for the empowerment anthem. ″‘Equal pay, that’s what we say!’” she exclaimed in one take, as recounted by Lennox at a gathering of female filmmakers last […]

A 30-year-old York County man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon in Wells. The Wells Police Department, in a news release posted on its Facebook page, identified the victim as Justin Bryant of Biddeford and Wells. Bryant was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which occurred when his white Toyota Corolla […]

A New Hampshire woman was unconscious when Fryeburg police officers found her lying in bushes Saturday evening along the Saco River. She was transported by airboat to an ambulance, in which she was treated before being released. Fryeburg Police Chief Joshua Potvin said the 45-year-old woman, whose name is not being released, told members of […]

AUBURN — The man who was fatally shot Saturday evening in the parking lot of Walmart was identified Sunday as Jean Fournier, 41, of Turner. Fournier was shot twice in the back in a possible case of road rage, according to police. He died at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. No one had been […]