PORTLAND (AP) — The Abyssinian Meeting House is the nation’s third-oldest standing African-American meeting house, used for religious, social, educational and cultural events until its closing in 1917. Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation will name the wood-frame building to its 2013 list of American’s most endangered places. The church was built in 1828 […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A spokeswoman for Gov. Paul LePage says the administration will no longer comment for stories published in three of Maine’s daily newspapers. Adrienne Bennett told the Portland Press Herald on Tuesday the administration won’t be talking to that publication, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel. All are owned by MaineToday Media. […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Democratic-led Maine House gave initial approval to a bill Tuesday that would create a new category of dental hygienists, which supporters say would provide more people access to affordable dental care. Lawmakers approved the bill on a 95-45 vote to establish a new license for dental hygiene therapists, who would be […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Everyone knows that what happens in Las Vegas “stays in Vegas.” Maine’s largest city is betting they also will come to know “life’s good here.” The city launched a new marketing campaign Tuesday under the slogan: “Portland, Maine. Yes. Life’s good here.” Besides the city, local groups and businesses plan to use […]

SACO (AP) — Kenneth Wilson, a physicist who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine. He was 77. Wilson, who died from complications of lymphoma, was in the physics department at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., when he won the Nobel Prize […]