Gorham News

PORTLAND Alexander Filatov sat in the back of a courtroom Monday as the man accused of kidnapping him pleaded not guilty to ordering him at gunpoint into the trunk of his own car and driving him to Delaware.

Lauren and Benjamin met in March 2008 while both attending the University of Rhode Island.

Lester Noyes travels down Route 88 in his 1929 Model A Ford station wagon, commonly known as a Woody, Sunday, June 2, 2013, in Falmouth, Maine.

Because state lawmakers continue to debate the details of the state budget - including how much money to allocate to schools - school districts can only make their best guesses about what money they'll get for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The lack of a state budget means voters will have to make decisions Tuesday based on revenue predictions ... (more)

Ten months into the building of a new consolidated courthouse in Augusta, the outline of the structure at Winthrop and Perham streets is visible to motorists traveling west across Memorial Bridge.

Pika Energy, the startup focused on manufacturing residential-scale wind turbines, recently reached a milestone, moving out of the basement in Gorham where the company was founded and into its own manufacturing facility in Westbrook.

AUGUSTA Redistricting maps for the Maine Legislature have passed a bipartisan commission unanimously, setting the stage for votes in the Senate and House of Representatives.

A poignant Memorial Day contrast reached The Weekly late last week via Donn Cairns, a Colorado Springs, Colo., resident "formerly of Westbrook [and] Gorham." After reading online the "Maine at War" column published in The Weekly on May 23, Cairns contacted us about Delmont Moore, born in Prospect on Sept.

The Maine House on Tuesday allowed two more of Gov. Paul LePage's vetoes to stand, the seventh and eighth of this legislative session.

A convicted rapist from Massachusetts who fled sentencing 34 years ago is scheduled to be sentenced this afternoon in Norfolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts.

SANFORD - Back in 1977, Thomas Jagger had a terrific idea: the Sanford-Springvale Rotary Club should start awarding annual scholarships to graduating high school seniors throughout the area.

Gov. Paul LePage has vetoed a bill that would ban smoking on all public university and college campuses in Maine, saying he'd rather see a bill to "outlaw tobacco altogether" than a patchwork approach.