BRUNSWICK — The second annual Martin Luther King Day pasta supper will be held on Monday, Jan. 21, at the First Parish Church’s Pilgrim House from 5 to 7 p.m. The supper, organized by the Brunswick Democratic Town Committee, is a nonpartisan event to raise money for the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, celebrate Maine’s […]

BATH T he Rev. Carol L. Huntington has seen the plight of destitute people in the inner cities of the Northeast. She has worked on the Episcopal Diocese of Maine Community on Indian Relations. Huntington and her husband, Al Ferguson, share their two-family home as part of a housing ministry. A lifelong member of the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is undertaking a comprehensive review of the critical systems of Boeing’s 787s, the aircraft maker’s newest and most technologically advanced plane, after a fire and a fuel leak earlier this week, the agency said today. The review will include the design, manufacture and assembly of those systems, the […]

BIG MOOSE TOWNSHIP (AP) — A northern Maine ski resort that hasn’t operated in three years is grooming its trails in anticipation of opening back up. A nonprofit group says it’s hoping to have the Big Squaw Mountain resort outside of Greenville open for the weekend of Jan. 19. Amy Lane, president of The Friends […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — A man police had to use a stun gun on when he refused to leave a central Maine high school is in more trouble for allegedly assaulting two workers at a hospital where he was taken after the Taser incident. Ronald Brousseau was taken to MaineGeneral Medical Center’s Thayer campus in Waterville […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who came to West Virginia as a young man from one of the world’s richest families to work on anti-poverty programs and remained in the state to build a political legacy, announced today he will not seek a sixth term. The 75-year-old Democrat’s decision, coming at a […]