Saturday, May 18, 2013
Adrienne Bennett becomes the communications director, and Evan Beal is hired as deputy press secretary.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter HIV test, allowing Americans to test themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their homes.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame has hired a Boston attorney to investigate allegations that a doubles champion inducted in 1992 sexually abused girls he coached.
Prosecutors on Tuesday declined to file criminal charges against former U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson, who was involved in a trio of traffic accidents last month.
A Norway branch of the popular Maine sandwich shop says dropping its food-stamps eligibility will cost it as much as $30,000 per year.
Even though they're illegal in South Portland, police say there were more than 50 fireworks complaints in June, and the city has had enough.
He's arguably Maine's best-known native son. To his customers, he was known as "L.L." But 100 years later, it's still not 100 percent clear what those initials stood for.
Gordon Collins-Faunce is accused of grabbing his 2½-month-old son by the head and throwing him into a chair. 
The state should see less than half of the 53,000 vehicles it saw on July 4th of last year, according to the Center for Tourism Research.
James Cameron is a former drug prosecutor who was convicted in 2010 on child-porn charges and is scheduled to spend 16 years in prison.
A former FBI employee has written a book about seeing legions of angels guarding the site after the hijacked airliner crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.
The 20-month-old Maine toddler vanished seven months ago, and hasn't been seen since.
Maine's U.S. Senator Susan Collins helped to christen – and then drive – a high-tech military boat built in Bath that is capable of being air-dropped from a cargo plane for special forces and rescue missions.
Vermont U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy is renewing his fascination with the Caped Crusader by appearing in a scene in the next Batman movie, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' which will get its first public showing in Vermont.
Of the 35 million Americans expected to travel by car this Fourth of July, a good chunk will reach for technology before an old-time paper map.
He was a singer, an actor, a stand-up comic and once even a schoolteacher, but we knew him best for creating Mayberry, the Camelot in bib overalls on “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Michael Hein, 42, was sentenced to seven days in jail for willful violation of the Maine Clean Election Act.
From mini cars to monster pickups, sales of vehicles charged higher in June and eased concerns that Americans would be turned off by slower hiring and other scary headlines.
A person familiar with the schedule says free agent guard Ray Allen – who the Boston Celtics hope to re-sign – will visit with LeBron James and the NBA champion Miami Heat on Thursday.
State Police say the adoptive son thought his mother was possessed by the devil, and he was trying to cast out the evil.
When Blaine McCormick redeemed a scratch-off ticket that paid $5, he deliberated about whether to pocket the cash or buy another ticket. Turns out, he made the right choice.
Farmhand Mike Christie lugs a newborn bull calf Monday from a pasture at a farm in Richmond . . .
The center promotes Scott Moody to fill the leadership post following the departure of Lance Dutson.
For Jay Crosby, it's the feeling of freedom. It's floating high above the buildings and the catch-your-breath views. But over the last 10 years, fewer and fewer Mainers are joining Crosby in the friendly skies.
Two young boys were lighting the sparklers with a toaster, the way their mother had her cigarettes, officials say.
Residents make do, but storm repairs could take a week.
The vehicle comes to rest against an interior wall, but shoppers and the motorist, 77, are not hurt.
A 74-year-old Michigan woman is bound over for trial on a murder charge in the death of a teenager.
Thomas Warren says the state did not prove Mohammed Mukhtar was an adult. A juvenile system prosecution is still possible.
Potentially, the area to be mapped presents opportunities for fisheries and wind farms, tourism and shipping, among many other uses.
Douglas Cropper's supervisor says he sees no error in the trooper's rush to block a driver going the wrong way on I-295.
Gregory Vrooman was convicted of a dozen sex crimes against a girl younger than 14 years old.
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