BUCKSPORT (AP) — Two papers mills in Maine are getting more work after their corporate owner decided to permanently close a Minnesota paper mill that has been shut down since it was gutted in a fatal Memorial day explosion and fire. Memphis-based Verso Paper Corp. says it will transfer work that was previously done at […]

AUBURN (AP) — Police say a 51-year-old woman has died following an apartment fire in Auburn. Police say they received word of an apartment fire on Hampshire Street shortly after midnight Sunday. When authorities arrived, smoke was seen coming out of the second floor of an apartment building. Officials say the woman was located in […]

PORTLAND (AP) — One person was injured in a butane stove explosion aboard a charter fishing vessel in Maine. Coast Guard crews were notified just before 10 a.m. Saturday that a passenger aboard the charter vessel Dawg Daze had been burned in the explosion and that the boat was headed back to port. A rescue […]

OKLAHOMA CITY Some Oklahoma residents have returned to emergency shelters despite evacuation orders in many areas of the state being lifted, as wildfires continued to burn. Pastor Greg Mack at Slaughterville Baptist Church, where a shelter was set up for those forced from their homes by the fires in Cleveland County, said Sunday that some […]

TOKYO (AP) — Newly released videos taken during the crisis last year at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant show the emergency command center shaking violently when hydrogen exploded at one reactor and the plant’s chief shouting, “This is serious, this is serious.” The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., released videos today of teleconferences between its […]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia Villagers in northwestern Cambodia unearthed what could be a mass grave from the Khmer Rouge era with about 20 skulls and some leg bones bound with rope, officials said today. The village is near a former Khmer Rouge prison and the site is believed to be one of the “killing fields” from […]

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man is going to be arraigned on a charge that he shot his wife in a hospital intensive care unit. Authorities say 65-year-old Barbara Wise was declared brain dead at Akron General Medical Center Sunday night. Akron police said 66-yearold John Wise of Massillon entered his wife’s room Saturday […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO forces killed a local commander for the Haqqani insurgent group in an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, the military alliance said today. Sher Mohammad Hakimi was hit on Sunday in Logar province, the coalition said. Hakimi was sitting under a tree with some associates when the NATO strike killed him, said […]

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — An Ivory Coast military official says seven soldiers have been killed in another attack by gunmen on a military camp in the commercial capital, Abidjan. Kouassi Kakao, chief of communications for the military chief of staff, says gunmen stormed the camp today in the Abidjan neighborhood of Cocody. He says […]