PRESQUE ISLE (AP) — A 19-year-old Presque Isle man has died after the canoe he was in capsized. The Maine Warden Service says the body of Jacob Caldwell was recovered from Echo Lake late Sunday morning. Lt. Thomas Ward says Presque Isle police received calls of an overturned canoe in the lake at about 2:30 […]

DAMASCUS, Syria — Just as Leen Arbid entered the front gate of the Damascus Opera House, a potent symbol of the Assad family’s decades-long authoritarian rule over Syria, she heard a deafening bang. And then, everything went black. The drama student was going to her classes that bright Sunday morning when a mortar shell fired […]

BIDDEFORD — Youth with be the focus of a forum to take place at the McArthur Public Library on Tuesday. The forum is part of “Let’s Talk Local,” a program of the Maine Humanities Council. Tuesday’s event will bring youth and adults together to talk about issues important to today’s young people, and both children […]

ATHENS, Greece — They’re some of Greece’s most celebrated beauties. And after nearly 2,500 years, it’s perhaps only fitting that they’re getting a face-lift. The Caryatid statues, which until the late ’70s propped up a section of the Erechtheion Temple on the Acropolis, are being meticulously cleansed of grime inside the museum where they’re now […]

CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed six boats over the weekend at the Rhode Island Yacht Club in Cranston. Seven people had to be rescued by boat from the docks after becoming trapped by the blaze late Saturday night. The fire started at around 11:30 p.m. […]