BRUNSWICK — As part of the ongoing Ounce of Prevention series, Mid Coast Senior Health Center will host a presentation by Lindsay J. Laxon, Esquire, investor education manager with the Maine State Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Office of Securities. “Don’t Get Scammed,” will be held Monday, July 8, from 11 a.m. to noon […]

WEST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut couple are letting customers at a Starbucks coffee shop choose the name of their baby. Twenty-five-year-old Jennifer James and 24-year-old Mark Dixon of West Haven tell the New Haven Register they have been struggling between two names for the boy they are expecting in September. So they decided […]

BEIJING Mothers and fathers aren’t the only ones urging adult children to visit their parents. China’s lawbooks are now issuing the same imperative. New wording in the law requiring people to visit or keep in touch with their elderly parents or risk being sued came into force Monday, as China faces increasing difficulty in caring […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, a member of the Senate Armed Service Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently visited Nizip 2 Syrian refugee camp near Gaziantep, Turkey. The camp, one of 20 built and maintained by the Turkish government, is home to more than 5,000 Syrian refugees who have fled their country. King, along with […]

ARROWSIC Eloise Vitelli announced today she will run for state Senate District 19, setting up for now a two-woman race to represent Sagadahoc County in the State House. In a statement, state Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham, said he “preferred at this time to focus on his family and his work as vice president of Kennebec […]