SANFORD – About 15 people gathered at Central Park in downtown Sanford on Friday night amid thunder and rain to protest the treatment of migrant refugees. The gathering was one of more than 700 “Lights for Liberty: a Vigil to End Human Concentration Camps” events held across the country to protest inhumane conditions faced by […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Long consigned to the evening news ratings basement, CBS News figures it can’t hurt to take some chances. The first was the appointment of a new anchor, Norah O’Donnell, who takes over Monday at the start of what promises to be a busy midsummer week. The second comes in November, when […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — In what may look to most like an ordinary rock, Vicki Lowe can see potential for a unique piece of art. She took a rock with two rounded bumps on the bottom, and saw it as a canvas for a tiny painting of a car, the two bumps as tires. She […]

BIDDEFORD — Visitors to Biddeford’s downtown may experience delays in the Main Street on Monday as a result of landscaping work in progress. City workers will be pruning trees on Main Street from Elm Street to Jefferson Street on the west side of the street. Parking will be prohibited in this section of Main Street […]

YORK COUNTY — Eight people were injured in two unrelated car crashes on Sunday – one on the turnpike in Ogunquit and one on Route 202 in Lebanon. Six Massachusetts residents were injured Sunday morning in a two car crash on the northbound Maine Turnpike in Ogunquit, when one of the cars stopped suddenly because […]

For decades, springtime high water flowing through the Head Tide Dam on the Sheepscot River has kept species of migrating fish pinned in the pool below the dam. The speed and volume of the water flowing through two openings in the dam is high enough that shad, Atlantic salmon, alewives and other species of river […]

Portland police said Sunday night that no arrests have been made in the hit-and-run late Wednesday that resulted in the death of a Portland man who was skateboarding. Meanwhile, the victim’s cousin, who lives in Massachusetts, has created a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to pay for Wayne Harwood’s memorial service and funeral expenses. The […]