HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s first major independent general-interest news outlet in five decades has been hacked by pro-government bloggers shortly after going live. A little more than an hour after its launch, the site 14ymedio.com was hijacked and readers inside Cuba were directed to a page dedicated to scathing criticism of Sanchez by well-known pro-government […]

PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — Investigators are hoping that visitors to the White Mountains this holiday weekend might turn up new clues in a nearly 13-year-old unsolved death. On Nov. 15, 2001, 52-year-old Louise Chaput left home in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and traveled to New Hampshire for a solo hiking trip. Chaput had a reservation at […]

SKOWHEGAN (AP) — A girl who was 10 when she was charged with causing the death of a baby in her mother’s care pleaded guilty to several misdemeanors Wednesday under an agreement in which a manslaughter charge was dropped. A judge signed off on the plea deal, and the Fairfield girl, now 12, pleaded guilty […]

WASHINGTON — Burned by the failed rollout of his health care law, President Barack Obama is seeking to build a team for the final years of his administration where management expertise may trump keen political or legislative skills. Gone from the White House are nearly all of the high-profile political gurus who ran Obama’s two […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine Farm Bureau is authorizing use of an emergency fund to assist organic farmers who supplied the Maine’s Own Organic Milk company with milk. Maine’s Own Organic Milk, better known as MOO Milk, announced last week that it is folding. The nonprofit farm bureau announced Wednesday that Maine Farm Bureau Disaster […]

URUMQI, China — Assailants in two SUVs plowed through shoppers while setting off explosives on a busy street market in China’s volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, local officials said, killing 31 people and injuring more than 90. The attack in the city of Urumqi was the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents […]

BIDDEFORD — A new group that has formed to save the Lincoln Mill clock tower has been given a deadline extension, to Sept. 2, to remove it from its current location on the ground, where it has been deemed an eyesore by many who drive through Biddeford’s downtown. If the structure remains past that date […]