The VA must deal with the lengthiest of backlogs one broken soldier at a time.
May 2014
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Experience matters for USM baseball team
The Huskies, who reached the final last year, open their national tournament Friday night.
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Maine Black Bears face must-win today
It’s win or go home following a 4-1 loss to Stony Brook on Thursday in the opener of the double-elimination America East tournament.
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Earth to get first look at meteors from ‘new’ comet
Scientists don’t know how intense the meteor shower from Friday night into Saturday’s pre-dawn will be, but it could be a storm, they say.
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Electric chair making a return in Tennessee
Lawmakers overwhelmingly back the move as the shortage of death row drugs for lethal injections grows.
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The seven campuses of UMS carving out their niches
Each has been charged with developing a distinctive identity within the University of Maine System.
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First woman moving from Maine psychiatric center to group home
Karen McCaul, formerly of Skowhegan, was found not criminally responsible for killing a man in 2009.
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World Dispatches
BANGKOK Thailand’s military seizes control in bloodless coup Without firing a shot, Thailand’s powerful military seized control of this volatile Southeast Asian nation Thursday, suspending the constitution and detaining Cabinet ministers in a risky bid to end half a year of political upheaval that many fear will only deepen the nation’s crisis. The coup, the […]
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Discovery puts flightless-bird theory in a tailspin
DNA links New Zealand’s kiwi to an unlikely sibling, offering new evolutionary possibilities, scientists say.
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Protesters to Nigerian president: ‘Bring back our girls’
They jeer a message from Goodluck Jonathan denying that he reacted slowly to the abduction.