PORTLAND (AP) — Officials say that falling ice is to blame for a gas leak that caused two Portland museums to be evacuated. WMTW-TV reports that the Portland Museum of Art and the Children’s Museum of Maine were evacuated after the leak was reported Thursday at 11:40 a.m. The leak was plugged and people were […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Paul LePage has joined a coalition of state leaders that wants the federal government to allow more offshore energy development. LePage joins the chief executives of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia in the Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition. The group, which was formed in 2011, is led by […]

SKOWHEGAN (AP) — A former Maine resident who pleaded guilty to her role in a 2013 New Hampshire murder will testify against her brother’s wife, accused of being an accomplice. The Morning Sentinel reports the testimony will delay former Skowhegan resident Michele Corson’s sentencing until November. The 45-year-old Corson pleaded guilty in May to charges […]

AUGUSTA Gov. Paul LePage’s biennial budget proposal to allow municipalities to levy property taxes on major nonprofit organizations drew more than 40 people to the State House on Thursday, nearly all of whom barraged lawmakers with reasons to soften or reverse LePage’s proposals. Thursday’s hearing before the Appropriations and Taxation committees, which came three days […]

PORTLAND Negotiators for FairPoint Communications and two unions on strike for more than four months have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that would return the employees to work Feb. 25. The unions and company issued a joint statement Thursday after weeks of working with a federal mediator to resolve the contract dispute […]

LOS ANGELES Among the seven people infected by a “superbug” outbreak tied to medical instruments at a Los Angeles hospital is an 18-year-old student who has spent nearly three months in the hospital and is in grave condition, his attorney said. The young man was struggling not to become the third of those infected at […]

WASHINGTON Britain’s electronic spying agency, in cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency, hacked into the networks of a Dutch company to steal codes that allow both governments to seamlessly eavesdrop on mobile phones worldwide, according to the documents given to journalists by Edward Snowden. A story about the documents posted Thursday on the website […]

DECEPTION ISLAND, Antarctica Earth’s past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents. Clues to answering humanity’s most basic questions are locked in this continental freezer the size of the United States and half of Canada: Where did we come from? Are […]