NEW YORK (AP) — Ric Ocasek, The Cars frontman whose deadpan vocal delivery and lanky, sunglassed look defined a rock era with chart-topping hits like “Just What I Needed,” was discovered dead Sunday afternoon in his Manhattan apartment. The New York Police Department said that officers found the 75-year-old Ocasek at about 4 p.m. after […]

The third suspect wanted in connection with a shooting last week in Presque Isle was arrested Sunday evening by the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office. Jason Alexander, 44, of Blaine was taken into custody without incident around 6 p.m. at a home in Blaine where he had been hiding out since the shooting, which took place […]

Seven people were injured Saturday evening in a two-vehicle crash in Bradford, according to the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office. Shortly after 6 p.m., a vehicle driven by Mark Libby, 65, of Bradford collided near the intersection of Storer Road and Williams Road with a pickup truck driven by Vance Corliss, 55, of Bradford and containing […]

BIDDEFORD — It had been years, and for some probably decades, since many members of a neighborhood on Old Pool Road had seen each other, but once they got together, it’s just like old times. “It’s like everything disappears except the good old days,”said Dana Peck at his friend Richard Cote’s house on Saturday, where […]