LEBANON – A Springvale motorist was cited for texting while driving and was charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence and driving to endanger after her vehicle struck a Maine State Police cruiser parked behind a tow truck on Route 202 in Lebanon on Saturday. Police said Molly Foisy, 22, was operating a silver Nissan […]

The Harrison man charged with stabbing his mother and hitting her with a maul used to split firewood admitted to the attack when confronted by a police officer, court records say. The records only hint at what might have motivated Mohamed Noh, 24, to stab his mother multiple times with a knife and strike her […]

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A man has been indicted in the home invasion of a former “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member. James Mainello also faces robbery, aggravated assault and other charges in the indictment handed up Monday by a Monmouth County grand jury. Prosecutors say the 51-year-old Bayonne resident and another man were […]

L.L. Bean will open its first retail store in Canada next month as the company expands its business in Maine’s northern neighbor. The Freeport company plans to open the doors of a 13,000-square-foot store in Oakville Place, a shopping mall outside Toronto, Ontario, on Aug. 23. It will be the first Canadian store in the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Behind America’s late leap into orbit and triumphant small step on the moon was the agile mind and guts-of-steel of Chris Kraft, making split-second decisions that propelled the nation to once unimaginable heights. Kraft, the creator and longtime leader of NASA’s Mission Control, died Monday in Houston, just two days after the […]