Thursday, May 23, 2013
Gary Alan Irving spent most of those 34 years living under an assumed name in Gorham where he held a steady job, mar ...
Elinor Ostrom won a share of the 2009 prize for her research into how people overcome selfish interests to successfully manage natural resources.
The Boston Red Sox beat the Miami Marlins 2-1, as Buckholz pitched seven innings and struck out a season-high nine batters.
A Ku Klux Klan group in Georgia loses its bid to join the state's highway cleanup program, but a legal challenge may be looming.
Kevin Raye defeats Blaine Richardson and says he plans to 'hit the ground running.'
Ann Rutherford, the demure brunette actress who played the sweetheart in the long-running Andy Hardy series and Scarlett O'Hara's youngest sister in "Gone With the Wind," has died. She was 94.
New Patriots running back Joseph Addai isn't concerned about switching sides in one of the NFL's fiercest rivalries. "When you get on the field it's a business thing," he said.
With more than 75 percent of precincts reporting statewide, Republican Charlie Summers and Democrat Cynthia Dill are building more substantial leads in their parties' U.S. Senate primaries.
The former president marks his 88th birthday with a red carpet event in Kennebunkport attended by family and former political associates.
The wife of Trayvon Martin's shooter is accused of lying when she told a judge that the couple had limited funds to get her husband cheaper bond.
The sundae – vanilla soft serve with fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles and a piece of bacon – clocks in at 510 calories, 18 grams of fat and 61 grams of sugar.
When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock.
Once a rite of passage to adulthood, summer jobs for teens are disappearing, and employment for 16- to-19-year-olds has fallen to the lowest level since World War II.
Dennis Dechaine is serving a life sentence for the 1988 murder and kidnapping of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry in Bowdoin.
A former Penn State assistant coach says he saw his ex-colleague with a prepubescent boy in an on-campus shower.
Trevor Ferguson pleads guilty to conspiring to rob the Portland woman whose body was found in a pond in Conway, NH, last year.
Ann Rutherford, the demure brunette actress who played the sweetheart in the long-running Andy Hardy series and Scarlett O'Hara's youngest sister in "Gone With the Wind," has died. She was 94.
The premiere of HBO's "41" is set for this evening on Bush's 88th birthday on the grounds of St. Ann's Church.
The caller reported three were dead and many others were floating in the ocean, setting off a $300,000 rescue operation.
About 10 percent of the registered voters in Maine’s largest city cast a ballot today, down from 26 percent in the June 2010 primaries.
The Arizona race is just one of the election battles taking place across the nation today.
Eight women and four men who mostly care little about baseball will decide if the ex-Red Sox pitching legend will go to jail for allegedly lying under oath.
Michael Brewer was set on fire by classmates after refusing to buy a $40 video game.
Ronald Poppo has been hospitalized since he was attacked on a busy Miami highway on May 26.
Catherine Greig's attorney, in arguing for a lighter sentence, had said she fell in love with a "Robin Hood like" figure, never believing that her outlaw boyfriend was a murderer.
Some 2,000 proposals have been submitted as part of the largest expansion of the Internet address system since its creation in the 1980s.
The findings of the fourth inquest into the notorious case of a 9-week-old infant's disappearance are announced today, watched by people around Australia on live television.
John Bryson did not specify how long he would remain on leave but said he would not perform the functions and duties of the office "during the period of my illness."
This is the third lawsuit of its kind brought in Maine by the Boston law firm representing the plaintiffs.
The new effort to increase sales and prices will be presented to the industry at four meetings.
City officials are considering a plan to make the streets two-way, as they were until the early 1970s.
Most polling places for today's primary elections will open at 8 a.m. In Portland, South Portland and Westbrook, the polls opened at 7.
The Penn State ex-coach's trial opens with graphic accounts of sexual abuse, and denials by the defense.
Improper billing came to light after the Shipyard Brewing error
Greater Portland's metropolitan crime laboratory has in the past 2½ years linked fingerprints taken from 295 crime scenes to prints collected at the county jail, identifying suspects and closing cases.
Hundreds watch the start of a Penobscot River project viewed as a model for fish and waterway restoration.