As private-sector retirees took hits, many Mainers worked for the state or schools while also getting state pensions in 2011.

But Mitt Romney wins in Wyoming as they head into Tuesday’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi.

Phyllis Kamin joined the girl scouts in 1938. She remembers how difficult it was to sell Girl Scout cookies during the Great Depression, and how they were only 25 cents a box back then.

A Biddeford nonprofit’s free programs engage kids in learning about building, repairing and traveling on bicycles.

Two guys named Rush were in the news last week. Unfortunately, almost all the attention went to the wrong one. Sure, Rush Limbaugh, America’s self-appointed instigator, touched off one of his signature firestorms when he labeled Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” simply for suggesting to Congress that all women deserve access to contraceptives. […]