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Portland Press Herald staff report WATERFORD — Police were involved in a standoff with a person inside a home on Valley Road in Waterford on Wednesday night that began as a domestic dispute in the afternoon.Authorities in Oxford County received a 911 call around 4:30 p.m. reporting that someone had threatened another person inside the home with a handgun, News Center Maine (WCSH/WLBZ) reported. Negotiators from the Maine State Police tactical team were called in to try to get the person inside the home to surrender. Police were still at the home Wednesday night. The other individual in the house was able to escape. Police were forced to close a section of Route 35 in Waterford. < Previous Previous Post Next > … [Read more...] about Domestic dispute turns into police standoff in Waterford

SECTIONS Search E-edition Home Customer Service Customer Service Mobile & Apps Archives Buy Photos and Pages Contact Us Newsletters Newspaper in Education Subscribe Subscriber Services News News Boise West Ada Canyon County Crime State News Nation/World News Databases Education Environment Idahoans in the Military Weather Traffic Helping Works In the Classroom Our Community Sports Sports Boise State Football Boise State Basketball Idaho Vandals High Schools Bronco Beat Chadd Cripe Varsity Extra Blog NFL NBA NHL MLB Golf Politics Idaho Politics Elections Government and Business Capitol & State Letters from the West National Politics Business Business Business Insider Business Columns & Blogs Personal Finance Legal Notices Opinion Opinion … [Read more...] about An even dozen: Idaho’s top boys basketball program wins its 12th state championship

SECTIONS Search E-edition Home Customer Service Customer Service Mobile & Apps Archives Buy Photos and Pages Contact Us Newsletters Newspaper in Education Subscribe Subscriber Services News News Boise West Ada Canyon County Crime State News Nation/World News Databases Education Environment Idahoans in the Military Weather Traffic Helping Works In the Classroom Our Community Sports Sports Boise State Football Boise State Basketball Idaho Vandals High Schools Bronco Beat Chadd Cripe Varsity Extra Blog NFL NBA NHL MLB Golf Politics Idaho Politics Elections Government and Business Capitol & State Letters from the West National Politics Business Business Business Insider Business Columns & Blogs Personal Finance Legal Notices Opinion Opinion … [Read more...] about Idaho’s only Division I commit led a beatdown at the 5A boys basketball state tournament

Homelessness across Minnesota increased at its highest rate in a decade, according to a count conducted by Wilder Research last year. Every three years, Wilder Research does a single-day count of homeless people throughout the state. Last year, outreach workers found 10,233 homeless people — almost a 10 percent jump from the 2015 count of 9,312. Older adults, age 55 and up, experienced the largest increase — a 25 percent jump from 2015. The results are preliminary, with the full report due out later this year. “I was expecting to see this, but it’s still surprising and sad,” said Chris Michels, a senior program manager with Catholic Charities who works with homeless people every day. “We’re having more and more (older) people on fixed incomes just can’t live in this (more expensive) rental market.” But part of the reason for the increase last year was the previous 2015 count was actually lower than it had been three years earlier. … [Read more...] about New homeless count reflects what metro officials have said for months — but it’s even worse in rural areas

News Arts Music Food Movies Calendar Guides SFR Fun Best of Santa Fe Contests By Will Costello | 13 minutes ago In late 2016, Wells Fargo, the consumer lending behemoth of Wall Street, attracted the eyes of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the powerful government watchdog and brainchild of 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, for allegedly opening accounts for millions of their customers without their knowledge or permission. Wells charged fees on these accounts, and made a lot of money doing so, and numerous inquiries and Congressional hearings revealed that the accounts were opened as a result of intense downward pressure on salespeople to push outlandishly high and sometimes mathematically impossible sales quotas. The bank has thrown its money behind private prisons, the NRA and the Dakota Access Pipeline, and has been charged heavy fees for insider trading and discriminatory lending (they charged black and brown people more for … [Read more...] about Banking on the Public