PORTLAND — Police are following leads that they hope will help them solve a string of January robberies in local convenience stores and credit unions. The rash of robberies – three convenience stores, two credit unions – stretched from Jan. 11, when a Pine Street Cumberland Farms was robbed, to Jan. 26, when the Quality Shop, 473 […]

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Business owner Linda Bean introduces Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, on Saturday, Jan. 28, on the balcony of her Freeport restaurant. Paul was on a campaign swing through the state; his Maine campaign chairman, Paul Madore, is in the background. Several hundred people listen as Texas Congressman Ron Paul […]

Emily Guerin, right, of The Forecaster, appeared with Shannon Moss on WMTW News 8 Sunday morning to discuss her story about the popularity of home schooling in greater Portland. Interest in home schooling has grown in recent years, and many families are part of home-schooling groups like Midcoast Maine Homeschool Center in Bath that offer […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A resident has filed a civil lawsuit against the city and its manager over what he claims is an illegal health insurance program for city councilors. Albert DiMillo Jr.,  of Colchester Drive, filed the lawsuit Monday in Cumberland County Superior Court in Portland, alleging the city violated its charter by offering employee […]

SCARBOROUGH — A 17-unit workforce housing subdivision planned off Broadturn Road met resistance Tuesday from some residents who would be its neighbors. The Scarborough Housing Alliance is partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland to construct single- and two-family homes on 6.5 acres of town-owned land between Interstate 95 and Saratoga Lane. The goal […]

SCARBOROUGH — Real estate broker Jean-Marie Caterina, of Gorham Road, announced she will challenge state Rep. Heather Sirocki, R-Scarborough, in House District 128. Caterina, a Democrat, was Maine’s assistant commissioner of labor for two years in the mid-1980s. According to her LinkedIn profile, she taught Latin at Waynflete School for seven years until 2002, when […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — State Sen. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, confirmed she will seek the Democratic nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe. “After giving it considerable thought and talking it over with my family and hearing from people all over the state, I decided I’m going to go for it,” she said in an interview. […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Schools are facing a budget gap of more than $1 million in fiscal 2013, the superintendent of schools said Monday at the first in a series of budget talks with the City Council. “As of right now, if we are to open the doors next year exactly like this year, we’d have […]

FREEPORT — Police believe the driver killed in a Jan. 25 collision on Interstate 295 drove north in southbound lanes for about four miles before his death. Daniel A. Cressey, 78, of Gorham, was killed when his Saturn sedan hit a Lexus sport utility vehicle driven by Mary Warner, 58, of Holden, Maine State Police Trooper […]