A private company will take over the service used by 250 commuters in the state.

With an overhaul of South Portland High School scheduled to begin in April, officials are seeking design changes because of higher-than-expected construction bids.

PORTLAND — A longtime Westbrook High School teacher and soccer coach who resigned this fall was sentenced Thursday to five days in jail and forced to surrender his teaching license for providing alcohol to a minor.

The U.S. Postal Service will stop processing mail in Hampden and move that operation to a processing department in Scarborough. The move is part of a nationwide consolidation of mail processing operations, the Postal Service announced on Thursday.

The U.S. Postal Service says it plans to move the operation to a processing facility in Scarborough after mid-May.

Raymond Beach transformed from a dumping ground for passing motorists to a destination for boaters in less than a year.

PORTLAND — There’s a new rule on the second floor of the University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Family Library.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Maine was encouraged by President Barack Obama’s announcement Friday that church-affiliated institutions will not have to include coverage for contraception in their employees’ health insurance plans, as had been required under health care reforms enacted last year.

PORTLAND — A former Portland podiatrist, who has been under investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration since 2010, has been indicted on 45 drug and health care fraud charges for writing illegal prescriptions.