Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas will be tethered to the wire to prevent falling to nearly certain death when he tries to walk from the U.S. to Canada.
Police had been searching for 49-year-old Dr. Timothy Jorden since Wednesday morning, when 33-year-old Jacqueline Wisniewski was found shot to death at the Erie County Medical Center.
The latest unscheduled withdrawal at a local credit union was from the flower bed, and it was all caught on surveillance video.
The WGME-TV reporter was interviewing David Houston, 59, about a sign that allegedly uses an ethnic slur to describe the president and urges people to join the Ku Klux Klan.
Dave Leitao, who led the Red Claws to a 21-29 record in his lone professional season, takes a position as an assistant coach at the University of Missouri.
Her study of holistic pain management techniques leads her to feel she's a "traitor to her convictions" when she uses drugs to manage her pain, her father says.
Pilot Clayton F. Osbon, 49, who has been with JetBlue since 2000, allegedly ran through the plane's cabin yelling about Jesus and al-Qaida.
Bankers, governments and investors are starting to prepare for Greece to stop using the euro, a move that could spread turmoil throughout the global financial system. Here's how Greece's exit could play out . . .
Under the plan, illegal immigrants who can prove they were brought here as children, but who otherwise have lived law-abiding lives and graduated from high school or served in the military, can stay and apply for work permits.
The ruling dissolving parliament concentrates power even more firmly in the hands of the generals who took over from former President Hosni Mubarak.
Both campaigns expect Romney to win the majority of the voters in these reliably Republican places, but Obama's team is trying to keep the margin as narrow as it was in 2008.
Jerry Sandusky's trial on 52 criminal counts has moved more quickly than many observers expected, and his lawyers could begin calling their witnesses as early as Monday.
After a two-week trial, jurors deliberated for less than two hours before giving their decision in the $17 million lawsuit brought by fellow actor Stephen Baldwin.
The move is likely to win support from environmental groups and public health advocates but exposes the Obama administration to potential criticism from congressional Republicans and industry officials
Statoil wants to build a demonstration floating wind farm off the coast near Boothbay Harbor and will hold public meetings this month to update its progress.
Carroll "Sonny" Googins was a beloved music teacher at Brunswick High School and a sought-after pianist and music director in Portland's theater community.
Road work is hitting a few bumps in the neighborhood, where merchants say the city's parking decisions are unfriendly to business.
Former legislator gets six months for campaign forgery, theft / Police: Driver indicted in crash was going 100 mph over limit / I-295 crash wedges car between tractor-trailer and guardrail . . . and other Maine news.
The independent candidate and the entertainer share a long history, but Kreskin stops short of predicting a winner in November's Senate race.