York News

Two Mass. men were found guilty of prostituting minors in several states, including at Kittery, Maine's former Danish Health Club, according to federal prosecutors.

York selectmen are urging the Maine Turnpike Authority to scrap its plan to build a new toll plaza somewhere in their town and instead repair the existing York toll plaza.

Consulting engineers for the Maine Turnpike Authority are putting forth four alternatives for the York toll plaza, two essentially at the current site and two farther north, which involve taking some private property.

Although at 10:15 p.m. it's still too early to declare a statewide victor on the gay marriage law repeal effort, all of the local towns in the Herald readership area voted to keep the law on the books - by significant margins.

Nothing appeared to have been taken. 9:39 a.m. Change was taken from two vehicles broken into on Woodbridge Road, police reported.

Fox News calls the race for Democrat Owens With three-quarters of the vote in up in New York, Democrat Bill Owens continues to lead.

York police arrested a New Hampshire man Sunday, Oct. 25, after a nearly nine-hour police hunt in Wells and York.

Rosie Grant, an election clerk in York, places absentee ballots into the voting machine while a steady line of voters waits in line Tuesday.

Turnpike officials likely will recommend several sites for a new toll plaza, including the current location.

Southern York County schools will receive H1N1 flu virus vaccines for their at-risk students this week.

It's come down to the wire, two days before voting in Maine, and both proponents and opponents of same-sex marriage say it's a neck-and-neck race in an off-year election that is expected to draw much higher numbers than is typical.

Converting ocean winds into electricity could be a boon for the state but many obstacles need to be resolved before it can become a reality.

The York Police Department will add extra patrols for this year's trick-or-treating hours on Friday.

ROCKPORT : The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell Ave., will open two new exhibitions with a public reception Friday, Oct.

YORK, Maine - There's an inscription at the base of the new flagpole at the American Legion Post 56: "Dedicated to past, present and future veterans.

The ocean will become a cleaner place thanks to some local kids, who are holding a fund-raiser for Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation on Sunday, Oct.

William P. Kelley, 19, 8 High Pasture Road, Kittery Point, was driving southbound on Southside Road in a 1999 Jeep.

University of New Hampshire researchers are getting more money to study how much acid rain is falling into lakes across northern New England and parts of New York.

ROCKLAND : Julia Friese will screen an episode of "Colonial House" and speak about her participation in the series Thursday, Oct.

The town has joined Kittery in applying for a $500,000 block grant to help residents weatherize their homes and make them more energy efficient.