MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Portland Sea Dogs (50-85) erased a 6-4 deficit, scoring five two-out runs in the ninth, and beat the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (64-68) 9-6 on Monday night in the series opener at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.  More...

PORTLAND — The Maine Red Claws and the Boston Celtics have completed a contract extension that will keep the Red Claws as Boston’s only NBA Development League affiliate through the 2017-18 season, the Red Claws announced in a press releas More...

SIS Bank announces the donation of $700 to York County Shelter Programs, Inc. as a result of the Bank’s “SIS Home Runs for Good” campaign. More...

Literacy Volunteers of Greater Sanford announces that it has been selected as a recipient of a donation from The Fabulous Find Resale Boutique in Kittery for the month of September.  More...

Eliza Donoghue of the Natural Resources Council of Maine will speak at Sanford’s Louis B. Goodall Memorial Library on Thursday, Sept. More...

AUGUSTA (AP) — Environmental Commissioner Patricia Aho is stepping down after four years to work for Sen. Susan Collins. More...

Ten years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf coast, drowning New Orleans and the surrounding areas. More...

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WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton and her aides at the State Department were acutely aware of the need to protect sensitive information when discussing international affairs over email and other forms of unsecure electronic communication, acc More...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary suspended all rail traffic Tuesday from its main terminal in Budapest and cleared the train station of hundreds of migrants trying to board trains for Austria and Germany – the hoped-for end destinations in the More...

CHICAGO (AP) — Southwest Airlines says a Chicago-bound flight has been diverted to Texas after a group of passengers became disorderly.  The airline says Flight No. More...

DEAR HARRIETTE: I had a wonderful summer that included spending a week with friends. They went out of their way to make sure that my family and I were comfortable and had fun. I want to thank them for their generosity. More...

Ludwig Wittgenstein, a philosopher who was born in Vienna but lived a lot of his life in England, where he died in 1951, said, “Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole si More...

Justin Bieber cried, Taylor Swift won most of the awards and Kanye West ranted onstage, but Miley Cyrus still owned the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards.  The 22-year-old wild child flashed one of her breasts, wore outfits that showed most of her ski More...

“Remembering Waterboro’s Golden Age” will be the theme of Jim Carll’s slide presentation at the Waterborough Historical Society’s Thursday, Sept. 3 program. More...