Maine Maritime Academy's new training ship arrives in Portland

Skowhegan Craft Brew Fest celebrates 10th anniversary

SKOWHEGAN — The Skowhegan Craft Brew Fest returns on Saturday, Sept. 5 for its 10th anniversary celebration, bringing together Maine-made beverages, food, live music and a festive Labor Day weekend atmosphere. Presented by nonprofit Main Street Skowhegan, the annual festival showcases Maine’s craft beverage industry while creating an opportunity for residents and visitors to gather, […]

Tiger Woods enters plea agreement to reckless driving charge over rollover crash in Florida

STUART, Florida (AP) — Tiger Woods entered a plea agreement Wednesday to a reckless driving charge following a rollover crash in March near his home in Florida. The golf legend previously pleaded not guilty to a driving under the influence charge. Woods was arrested after his SUV clipped a truck and rolled over on its […]

Man hit by train in Auburn

The train operators alerted Cornelius Williams, 32, to move away from the tracks, but he didn’t and was then hit by the train.

Raphael Warnock has done it. Adam Hamilton wants to follow as a pastor-US senator

If Kansas megachurch pastor and Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton manages to pull off an upset victory in his race for a U.S. Senate seat, he’d join a very small group. In the past 100 years, only incumbent Raphael Warnock of Georgia has accomplished what Hamilton aspires to do: serve in the Senate while continuing to […]

He captivated millions on TV. Now Archbishop Fulton Sheen is one step closer to sainthood

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Bonnie Engstrom believes a long-deceased TV priest helped save her son’s life after he was born in 2010 without a pulse. The Catholic Church agreed, declaring the boy’s resuscitation a miracle after Engstrom and others sought the heavenly prayers of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who died in 1979. That determination […]