AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s community colleges are getting more than $13 million in grants to offer more information technology training opportunities. In announcing the federal Department of Labor grants, Maine’s congressional delegation said the funding will go to a consortium made up of Maine’s seven community colleges in partnership with employers, work force development agencies, […]

BOSTON (AP) — The overwhelming response to a fund set up for a Boston homeless man who turned in a backpack he found filled with more than $40,000 in cash and traveler’s checks is a “statement to everyone in America,” says the Virginia man who started the drive. In just over two days, more than […]

LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — The number of people unaccounted for from Colorado’s devastating flooding has fallen dramatically as rescuers reach stranded victims, and electricity and phone services are restored to ravaged areas, allowing residents to contact family, friends or authorities. But some of the stranded are refusing to leave their homes, prompting crews to show […]

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s government said 58 people were missing after a massive landslide smashed through a tiny coffee-growing village deep in the country’s southern mountains, where fresh waves of rain threatened to unleash more danger for rescue workers trying to evacuate the last residents from the isolated hamlet. The storm that devastated Mexico’s […]

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian official says a roadside bomb has targeted a bus in the country’s central province, killing 19 people. The official at the governor’s office in Homs province says today’s explosion in the village of Jbourin also wounded four people on the bus. The village is predominantly Alawite, a minority sect […]

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan state TV says the trial of the son of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi on charges of “harming state security” has been postponed, after he showed up in a courtroom in a western mountain town. Today’s session in Zintan involving Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the only surviving son of Gadhafi held in […]

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces backed by helicopters surrounded a town outside Cairo known to be an Islamist stronghold after exchanging fire with armed men who killed a senior police officer early today, state media reported. Egypt’s official news agency said Gen. Nabil Farrag, an aide to the police chief of the city of […]

OKUMA, Japan (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe insisted today that radiation contaminated water has been contained at the country’s crippled nuclear power plant and said he would fend off “rumors” regarding Fukushima’s safety, as he took a firsthand look at the complex. After a three-hour plant tour, Abe said he stood by the […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A three-alarm blaze in Portland’s Old Port district is under control. The fire at the multi-story commercial building on Wharf and Fore streets was reported at about 1:30 a.m. today. There were no reports of injuries, although about a dozen occupants of upper floor apartments were evacuated. The building houses several businesses, […]