LEWISTON (AP) — A vacant church in Maine’s second largest city is about to come back to life in a movie. The makers of “Richard 3,” a comedy of Shakespeare’s scheming, hunchback King Richard III, hope to pack several hundred people in St. Patrick’s Church in Lewiston for a coronation scene. The Sun Journal says […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Department of Transportation quietly sought bids on the $300,000 east-west highway study two weeks before Gov. Paul LePage signed the bill authorizing the study. One of the project’s key legislative supporters this week asked the governor to slow down the process, and LePage announced a day later that he would […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s Lobster Advisory Council has unanimously voted to move forward with a $3 million business and marketing plan intended to boost demand and prices that have fallen to their lowest level in decades. The details of the plan approved Thursday and the way it gets funded — possibly through higher lobster license […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies today, minutes after they gave him a new weapon as a present, killing two U.S. service members. It was the latest in a disturbing string of attacks by Afghan security forces on the international troops training them. The killings […]

PARIS (AP) — An emergency layover in Syria’s capital was bad enough. Then passengers on Air France Flight 562 were asked to open their wallets to check if they had enough cash to pay for more fuel. The plane, heading from Paris to Lebanon’s capital, diverted amid clashes near the Beirut airport on Wednesday. Low […]

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities were searching a stretch of the Merced River for a 6-year-old boy after his older brother died when a current swept them away during a family outing in Yosemite National Park. The boy is presumed dead. Other hikers pulled the body of his 10-year-old brother about 150 yards downstream from […]