PORTLAND (AP) — Police are investigating a suspicious death in Maine. Authorities say a woman was found dead at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday in a vehicle parked at a Motel 6 on Riverside Street in Portland. Police did not release the woman’s name and declined to give more information.

PORTLAND (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland has purchased a small shopping plaza with the intent of using it as an investment property. Diocese spokesman Dave Guthro said the $2.75 million purchase in December represents the first time the diocese has bought a property in Maine with the intention of using it for […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine state revenues were below estimates in December by $5.2 million as Christmas season sales did not quite measure up to what was hoped for, a finance official told lawmakers on Thursday. But the state’s associate finance commissioner for tax policy, Michael Allen, also told the Appropriations Committee that total revenues through […]

EAST MILLINOCKET (AP) — Ned Dwyer, a papermaking executive with experience at several paper companies, has been named president of Great Northern Paper, taking over responsibility for day-today management and longterm business growth. Richard Cyr, who’s served as acting president, will remain the company’s CEO.

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Board of Environmental Protection says the toxic chemical bisphenol-A should be banned from baby food, as well as from infant formula. The board agreed Thursday with Department of Environmental Protection staff recommendations pertaining to infant formula but also went further by applying it to baby food, as well. The board […]

CHICAGO (AP) — He did it. He finally admitted it. Lance Armstrong doped. He was light on the details and didn’t name names. He mused that he might not have been caught if not for his comeback in 2009. And he was certain his “fate was sealed” when longtime friend, training partner and trusted lieutenant […]

LONDON (AP) — Heathrow Airport briefly shut a runway and canceled dozens of flights because of a snowstorm causing widespread travel disruption across Britain. The London airport’s northern runway was closed for 45 minutes and re-opened today after being de-iced and cleared of snow. About 180 flights were canceled by midday. Rail traffic was disrupted […]

MOSCOW (AP) — A masked assailant threw acid at the artistic director of Russia’s Bolshoi Theater ballet troupe, an attack that Bolshoi representatives said may cause him to lose his eyesight and appeared to be linked to power struggles at the famed ballet company. Sergei Filin, a 42-year-old former ballet star, was approached late Thursday […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Two car bombs exploded in southern Syria and a rocket slammed into a building in the north in a spike in civil war violence today that Syrian state media blamed on rebel fighters trying to topple President Bashar Assad. The rocket attack in the northern city of Aleppo and the suicide car […]