Thirty months after she was shot through the head, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords sits in a New Hampshire restaurant facing parents of children killed in the latest school shooting. They are here to talk political strategy, but Giffords doesn’t say much. She doesn’t have to. The 43- year-old Democrat has become the face of […]

WATERVILLE The gleaming glass building of the Colby College Museum of Art not only stands out on campus — surrounded by the red brick, Georgian-style classrooms and dormitories — but now also stands out across Maine. A new addition means the museum now has 38,000 square feet of exhibition space, the largest in the state. […]

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts authorities are investigating the death of a Maine fisherman aboard a commercial vessel. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Coast Guard said that crew aboard the 107-foot herring trawler Osprey reported a colleague suffering what appeared to be a “severe asthma attack” at about 3:45 a.m. Sunday. The boat was 65 […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The state Legislature plans to reconvene today to make a technical correction to the $6.3 billion state budget. The bill scheduled to be voted today clarifies that a sales tax increase from 5 percent to 5.5 percent will be applied to all categories for which the state currently collects sales tax, including […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A group of parents is calling on Gov. Paul LePage to sign a bill designed to provide information about food packaging that contains the toxic chemical bisphenol-A. The bill would require companies with $1 billion or more in gross annual sales to report to the state if they use chemicals like BPA […]

PORTLAND — The salaries of some Maine hospital executives are under fire by critics who say they add to the high cost of health care in the state. Ten hospital employees in Maine were paid more than $1 million in 2011, according to the latest financial data released by the Internal Revenue Service. Overall, the […]