AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says a worker at a Cumberland County restaurant infected with hepatitis A may have exposed customers. The agency says the worker served food between Sept. 29 and Oct. 11, and after examining the food and beverage preparation practices at the restaurant, it’s possible others […]

Carly Turgeon, 10, dressed as a masked lady, Marley Demers, 11, as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and Kendra Turgeon, in a pink gown, were among the young people taking part in Sanford’s Halloween parade Thursday around 5 p.m. Kids and their parents marched down the sidewalk from Gowen Park to Sanford Junior High […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai, the emirate known for its celebration of over-the-top glamour and luxury, is racing ahead to dominate the Middle East’s plastic surgery market with plans to attract half a million medical tourists in six years. Where cosmopolitan Beirut was once the region’s best known city for going under the knife, turmoil […]

BLOOMING GROVE, Pa — They searched for him in impenetrable woods and forbidding caves, in schools and vacation homes and even in a roadside clothing donation bin, all the while hoping that ambush suspect Eric Frein wouldn’t take a potshot at them from some unseen, distant perch. For 48 tense days, hundreds of law enforcement […]

FORT KENT — In between going on a bike ride and taking delivery of a pizza, nurse Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend did chores and watched a movie while state officials struggled to reach a compromise in a standoff that has become the nation’s most closely watched clash between personal freedom and fear of Ebola. […]