PORTLAND ( AP) — Maine’s largest city is releasing a public bid that offers up rooftops in the city for projects that generate solar-powered electricity. Portland city officials say several facilities around the city are potential sites for solar power systems. They include the Portland International Jetport, a library storage facility, two schools and a […]

CASCO (AP) — Police say three people have been hospitalized, including a 3-yearold girl, after the Jeep they were riding in left the road and crashed into a utility pole. The Portland Press Herald reports authorities said 23- year-old Ashley McMullen, of Naples, was driving a 2012 Jeep Compass west on Route 302 in Casco […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Two U.S. senators are introducing a bill they say will improve student access to the Internet outside of the classroom. Maine Independent Senator Angus King and West Virginia Republican Shelley Moore Capito are introducing the Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015. They say the bill would support states and school districts that […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Coast Guard Sector Northern New England’s new commanding officer is taking over the responsibilities of his new position. Capt. Michael A. Baroody assumed his new role during a ceremony in Portland, Maine, on Thursday. Baroody replaces Capt. Brian S. Gilda, who Coast Guard officials say is leaving as part of a regularly […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. A former friend who had reconnected with the man accused of a shooting massacre inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, said Dylann Storm Roof had become an avowed racist. Joey Meek reconnected with Roof a few weeks ago and said that while they got drunk together on vodka, Roof began […]

NEW YORK Somewhere out there are an admitted killer who crawled through a Texas prison’s ventilation ducts, a murderer who apparently escaped from an Indiana institution in a garbage truck, and a Florida convict who got other inmates to put him in a crate at the prison furniture shop and had himself delivered to freedom […]

VERSAILLES, France (AP) — Vandals have spray-painted a controversial Anish Kapoor sculpture in the garden of the palace of Versailles called “Dirty Corner.” The huge 70-meter, red metal work — resembling a gaping cavern — has been dubbed “vagina of the queen” by media, and was sprayed with yellow paint by unknown vandals on Wednesday. […]

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron has called for a fight against the radical ideology of the Islamic State group, calling it one of the biggest threats for our world. Addressing a major security conference in the Slovak capital today, Cameron said it is necessary for everyone, from governments to communities and […]

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say a 12-year-old girl has died in a fall from a French lighthouse during filming for television show about some of the country’s most famous monuments. The police prefecture confirmed the death Thursday evening at the Cap Ferret lighthouse in Bordeaux but had no details. Sud Ouest, the local news […]

BEIJING (AP) — A lawyer says a trial against three Chinese activists has been aborted after the defense demanded that no member of the ruling Communist Party should be on the bench to hear charges against the defendants of inciting to subvert state power. Lawyer Zhang Xuezhong said today that his client and lead defendant, […]