York News

School officials and police instituted a lockdown at York High School for less than 30 minutes Thursday morning after a student was allegedly seen armed with a knife while sitting inside his truck in the school parking lot, according to police.

Men of York calendar models, from left, Wes Cook , John Edmondson , and Mark Foster , joke about their photos Wednesday at the American Legion function hall.

York and Kittery police early Wednesday morning apprehended a burglary suspect in the woods off Route 1 in York and are asking the public for assistance in the case.

The entrance to York's Wild Kingdom Zoo and Amusement Park on buy Route 1 North in York.

York Police Chief Doug Bracy at a Nov. 9 Board of Selectmen meeting announced the promotion of Detective Tom Cryan and also a first-place award for four members of his department.

Mike's Mobil on Route 1 called police after witnessing a man in a silver Durango at the pumps.

A man who injured his leg in one of the most remote parts of town was rescued and transported to the hospital late Sunday morning.

The following babies were born at York Hospital during the month of October: Oct.

The American Legion Ramsdell Rogers Post No. 56 has sued its former contractor for allegedly walking away from the job with $400,000 in club funds to which he was not entitled, according to post officials and a lawsuit filed in York County Superior Court.

Theodore "Heck" Bardsley, a WWII veteran, and his wife, Doris, pose in their York home recently.

Police say the chain reaction crash happened about 3:30. I t began when a Volvo traveling north crossed the center line and hit an sSUV going the other way.

Rich Goodenough, of York, poses with Brenda Davis, who is on a quest to stamp out hunger in Maine.

The American Legion Post 56 is holding a free Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner, starting at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov.

She may be retiring from her job but not from caring for children. Last week, at a Nov.

Selectmen voted Monday night to approve a dock application on the York River at 8 Ram's Head Lane, after several residents spoke against the move.

Six indictments out of the York Police Department and two out of the Kittery Police Department were among those recently returned by a grand jury.

The town took its first step toward an interconnected system of bike and walking trails as Town Planner Christine Grimando held a recent lunch forum on the topic at the York Library.

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.