Biddeford News

An inmate in a minimum-security facility has barricaded herself in her room. She's beyond angry; she's raging.

Suzanne Nance, 31, of Bangor, was charged with failure to register a motor vehicle after she was stopped on Spring Street for the above violation.

Mike's Mobil, was charged with operating while license suspended or revoked. Her court date is March 4. A passenger in the car was charged on a warrant, police said.

Millions of dollars in unredeemed bottle deposits will be a target of the Legislature's Business, Research and Economic Development Committee.

Hon. Ephraim K. Smart was born in Prospect, Maine in 1813 to a Methodist minister, the Rev.

A 38-year-old Maine man who allegedly abducted his 2-year-old daughter and triggered the state's first Amber Alert had recently broken up with the girl's mother and was facing a custody hearing over their daughter.

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The Maine Department of Corrections has fired one prison guard and demoted another after an internal investigation into the April homicide of inmate Sheldon Weinstein.

Return to the days of old when if you didn't own a horse and buggy, on the southern coast of Maine you relied on the Atlantic Shore Line's electric trolleys to get from here to there.

By Kent Ward It was weird the way the vote in a Bangor Daily News daily poll question on current events mirrored, in percentages, the performance of voters on Question 1 in this week's election.

For the past eight years, the Guild of Portsmouth Regional Hospital has sponsored a retreat weekend for the hospital's breast cancer support group.

Every Tuesday night a group of young people gathers in the basement of the Episcopal Church on South Street.

Students and staff at Biddeford High School, along with some town leaders, are celebrating their victory at the polls.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 3, 2009 BRUNSWICK, MAINE, November 3, 2009- Downeast Energy & Building Supply announces employees have raised $61,556.04 in this year's campaign to help the agencies served by the United Way.

A Buxton man is under arrest charged with elevated aggravated assault that allegedly happened in Biddeford.

Hopefully, one year from now, voters will again be asked to consider expanding casino gaming in Maine.

Submitted by Al Diamon on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 11:59am. Maine Media Numbers up: According to new figures released today by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram showed a small but significant jump in sales for the six months ending Sept.

Senator Olympia Snowe continues to face intense lobbying from groups who want a health care reform bill.

On Nov. 3 a landmark vote on same sex marriage will take place in Maine. There voters will cast ballots on a measure known as Question 1 . It will be the first time that voters can decide whether to affirm a same sex ballot measure that was approved by a state legislature and signed by a governor.

A Michigan water-rights activist will speak at five events just one week before a major vote on a proposed ordinance that would regulate how companies like Poland Spring could use water in town.