Red Claws’ big victory provides a little payback

The Red Claws close their home schedule by beating the team that kept them from the playoffs last year.

LePage: ‘timing was bad’ for labor mural removal

The governor says he still thinks he was right to order the piece removed from the Department of Labor.

Latest forecast: 6-10 for coast; 8-12 inland

The record for an April Fools' snowstorm in Portland is 11.1 inches, set in 1922.

Blodgett: Fired ‘without cause’

Cindy Blodgett defended her career as a coach at the University of Maine in a press conference this afternoon, and asserted she was not given the time she thought she'd been promised to turn the culture around.<br><br>The former Maine playing legend was fired Tuesday by Athletic Director Steve Abbott after her team went 4-25 this season.

Inside Windham – 4/1

Roundup of latest developments in Arab world

A look at the latest developments in political unrest across the Middle East today: LIBYA Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa resigns and flies to London in a symbolic victory for the opposition, though the government maintains it was for health reasons. Fighting, meanwhile, has stabilized around the oil facilities of Brega, with rebel and government […]

Oil prices reach 30-month high

NEW YORK  — The price of oil rose to a 30-month high on today as fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi pushed back rebels from key areas in eastern Libya. Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude rose $2.45, more than 2 percent, to settle at $106.72 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. At one point […]

Portland Museum: Return mural to Labor Dept.

The mural's removal "has made our state the focus of unwanted national attention as an environment unfriendly to labor and art.'

Low levels of radiation found in West Coast milk

Traces of radioactive Iodine-131 were found in milk in California and Washington state.

Friends remember Windham’s Lang