ROCKLAND (AP) — Maine lobstermen are competing for cash, prizes and bragging rights as the annual lobster boat racing season gets under way. The season’s first races were held Saturday at Boothbay Harbor. Fishermen were back at it on Sunday with more races in Rockland. Lobster boat racing dates back to the early 1900s, with […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Volunteer anglers are being sought to survey remote ponds and lakes around Maine in search of brook trout. The brook trout pond survey project is a collaborative effort of Trout Unlimited, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and Maine Audubon to gather data on ponds in remote areas of northern, […]

DALLAS (AP) — A private jet that had former President George W. Bush on board made an emergency landing after the smell of smoke was reported in the cockpit. The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday said the jet was flying Saturday night from Philadelphia to Dallas, where Bush lives, and was diverted to Louisville, Ky. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two lawmakers who helped write a bipartisan immigration bill say Republicans’ hopes to reclaim the White House in 2016 hinge on whether they support — or sabotage — the proposal. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Sunday warned conservatives who are trying to block the measure that they will hand […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s newly elected president says he will follow a “path of moderation” and urges his country not to be held back by past policies, emphasizing messages from Western leaders since his victory that have brought hope of new openings with Tehran. Speaking today at his first news conference since his surprise […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Erin Brady of Connecticut won the title of Miss USA in Las Vegas on Sunday night. She is expected to spend her title reign raising breast and ovarian cancer awareness, the organization’s official cause.

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland Russia, like all leading industrial governments, has a responsibility to push opposed factions in Syria’s civil war to the negotiating table as rapidly as possible and not to back a government that slaughters its citizens, Britain’s prime minister said today. In a blunt assessment, David Cameron conceded that a daunting chasm in […]