WATERVILLE (AP) — Sen. Susan Collins is delivering another address on the importance of the “art of compromise.” The Republican is speaking at the George J. Mitchell International Lecture Series Thursday evening at Colby College. Mitchell — who represented Maine in the U.S. Senate for 15 years and is credited with brokering the peace agreement […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Wisconsin man faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court in Maine to transporting child pornography. Ryan Abbott of Plymouth, Wisconsin, entered his plea Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland. Prosecutors say the 23- year-old Abbott sent several emails in October to the undercover account […]

FARMINGTON (AP) — Authorities in Maine are trying to crack a disgusting illegal littering case. Maine game wardens want to know who has been leaving five-gallon buckets of dirty adult diapers in the streams and woods of Farmington and Wilton. Warden Kris MacCabe says 16 of the buckets have been found within the past two […]

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. The white South Carolina police officer charged with murder for shooting an unarmed black man in the back was allowed to stay on the force despite a 2013 complaint that he used excessive force against another unarmed black man. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Mario Givens recounted Wednesday how […]

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. A year after Americans recoiled at new revelations that sick veterans were getting sicker while languishing on waiting lists — and months after the Department of Veterans Affairs instituted major reforms — government data shows that the number of patients facing long waits at VA facilities has not dropped at all. No one […]

DALLAS (AP) — Federal health authorities say three additional people have become ill from a foodborne illness linked to some Blue Bell ice cream products. Carol Crawford, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, confirmed today that the number of people sickened by listeriosis has increased. The CDC says three people in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A bystander’s video proved pivotal in the filing of a murder charge against a South Carolina police officer, and also rekindled a fervent national discussion about the use of body cameras by police officers. The White House seized on the case to make a pitch for wider use of such cameras. […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to his role in one of the world’s most notorious drug cartels faces more than 11 years in prison when he’s sentenced by a New Hampshire federal judge. Samuel Zazueta Valenzuela returns to a Concord courthouse for sentencing today. He pleaded guilty in September to being […]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas prisoner on death row for the fatal shooting of a Dallas-area police officer outside a convenience store is headed for execution. No last-day appeals were in the courts to try to keep 42-year-old Kent Sprouse from lethal injection this evening in Huntsville. The U.S. Supreme Court in November refused […]