INDIANAPOLIS An Indiana woman who saved her two children by binding them together with a blanket and shielding them with her body as a tornado ripped apart their house lost parts of both her legs, which were crushed by the falling debris, her husband says. Stephanie Decker, a 36-yearold sleep specialist, lost one leg above […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House Homeland Security panel is holding a hearing today on why a suspect in an alleged bomb plot against the U.S. Capitol had been living illegally in the United States for 12 years. Amine El Khalifi was arrested last month in a parking lot. He was wearing what he thought was […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine motor vehicle officials say the state is shifting to a new motorcycle registration system. The changes are the result of a law enacted last year that requires motorcycle inspection stickers to be displayed on the vehicle’s registration plate. The changes started in March and will be phased in over the next […]

LEWISTON (AP) — Police in Lewiston say they caught a man stealing copper from a vacant city home red-handed. Police and the city’s code enforcement officer went to the home on Friday to put a condemnation sticker on it and heard someone inside sawing through copper pipes. After calling for backup, police forced their way […]

FARMINGTON ( AP) — Maine state authorities investigating the death of a Canadian man who died en route to the hospital after a skiing accident at Sugarloaf resort in January have cleared two responders. Maine Emergency Medical Services, a division of the state Department of Public Safety, launched an investigation into the Jan.12 death of […]

STRATHAM, N.H. (AP) — Author Stephen King is taking time from writing to do some reviewing. The Maine author visited New Hampshire on Saturday to interview New Jersey author Lauren Grodstein at the Cooperative Middle School in Stratham. The Portsmouth Herald says the event, hosted by Water Street Bookstore, was one of four put on […]