ALFRED (AP) — A scientist says she did not find DNA evidence on items police say a 26-year-old Maine man used to beat and stab his grandmother to death in Old Orchard Beach. DNA expert Cathy MacMillan of the Maine State Crime Laboratory testified on Wednesday — the fifth day of Derek Poulin’s trial in […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland man who said racial bias was a factor when a Superior Court judge sentenced him to 38 years in prison for fatally shooting his roommate has lost his appeal to have his sentence reduced. The Portland Press Herald reports that the Supreme Judicial Court upheld the sentence of Daudoit Butsitsi […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Fair- Point Communications workers unhappy with planned layoffs at the telecommunications company are planning to picket in Portland. Union officials say members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Communications Workers of America plan to conduct informational picketing Thursday morning to protest the company’s unwillingness to compromise in talks about the […]

NEWPORT, Rhode Island (AP) — Federal fishing managers will consider a call for emergency action to suspend the at-sea monitoring program required of the New England groundfishing industry. The New England Fishery Management Council’s Groundfish Committee wants the council to request the emergency action from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The issue is on […]

WASHINGTON Alexander Hamilton, who has been featured on the $10 bill since 1929, is making way for a woman. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is to officially announce Thursday that a redesign of the $10 will feature the first woman on the nation’s paper money in more than a century. The plan is to decide which […]

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. Authorities said a woman who provided hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools to two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum-security prison discussed having them kill her husband. Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie at a news conference Wednesday said that Joyce Mitchell had talked to inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat about […]

HOUSTON Death row inmate Gregory Russeau is set to be executed this evening for the slaying of a 75-year-old East Texas auto repair shop owner 14 years ago during a crack cocaine binge. Russeau, 45, from Tyler, would be the nation’s 17th convicted killer to receive a lethal injection this year and the ninth in […]

KEARNY, Ariz. (AP) — A smoky brush fire near a rural Arizona community forced the evacuation of a trailer park and some 300 residents as it burned at least two homes, officials said. The wildfire was burning salt cedar trees in the dry Gila River bed Wednesday evening near Kearny, about 85 miles southeast of […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. A white man opened fire during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston on Wednesday night, killing nine people, including the pastor, in an assault that authorities described as a hate crime. The shooter remained at large Thursday morning and police released photographs from surveillance video of a suspect […]