SANFORD – A month ago Sanford city officials and those associated with a number of social service agencies came together to find ways to assist city’s homeless population. Sanford Police Department assigned a five-person team to assist those living outside, and the social service agencies worked together to open a Resource Hub on Sept. 6, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sander Vanocur, a television newsman who for decades covered momentous events from political campaigns to assassinations, the Vietnam War to the civil rights movement, has died, his son said Tuesday. Vanocur died Monday night in Santa Barbara, California, said Chris Vanocur. He was 91. He had been dealing with dementia in […]

Maine’s trees are starting to show flashes of yellow, orange and red — mostly in northern parts of the state. Northern Maine is reporting less than 30 percent color change with less than 10 percent leaf drop, according to the 2019 Fall Foliage Report from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry. “We’ve been […]

A Portland man has pleaded guilty to murdering his domestic partner in early 2018. Anthony Leng, now 42, was accused in the shooting death 36-year-old Sokha Khuon after a domestic argument. He had pleaded not guilty and, as of Friday, was scheduled for trial in less than two weeks. But he abruptly changed his plea […]

The mother of a 1-year-old girl who died in Bangor last year is accused of repeatedly rubbing heroin on the girl’s gums to help her sleep in the months before the girl died from exposure to fentanyl, according to court documents. Kimberly Nelligan, 33, of Bangor pleaded not guilty Wednesday to endangering the welfare of […]

Ask Sam Hayward, co-owner and founding chef of Fore Street, what the famed Portland restaurant might be serving 50 years from now, and he obligingly jumps into an imaginary time capsule to visit 2069 and check out the menu. The question assumes that little has been done since 2019 to put the brakes on climate […]