AUGUSTA (AP) — The politically-divided House and Senate are at odds over whether Maine should prohibit people under the age of 18 from indoor tanning. The Democratic-led House voted 87-59 to give initial approval to Sen. Geoff Gratwick’s bill on Thursday. The Republican-led Senate voted 18-17 in favor of rejecting the bill Wednesday. It faces […]

INDIANAPOLIS Two states roiled by criticism over new religious objections laws are looking to move forward after taking different approaches to changing the legislation to ease concerns about discrimination. The governors of Indiana and Arkansas signed bills Thursday that lawmakers hoped would quiet the national uproar over whether the laws offered a legal defense for […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — Crews say it will take at least a day to remove train cars that derailed from an elevated track in Cincinnati. Authorities say the CSX train derailed around 11 p.m. Thursday from an elevated track in the Queensgate neighborhood in Cincinnati. Officials say at least six train cars were derailed. Surrounding streets […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — More than 100,000 Mormons will descend on Salt Lake City this weekend for the faith’s biannual conference to listen to spiritual guidance from leaders and to learn about church news. Millions more will watch live broadcasts of the event from around the U.S. and in more than 200 other countries. […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man who spent 30 years on Alabama’s death row will go free after a decades long fight to prove his innocence. Fifty-eight-year-old Ray Hinton will be released this morning. Hinton was convicted of the 1985 murders of two Birmingham fast food restaurant managers. However, prosecutors say modern forensic methods failed […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A court filing says an investigation of a suspected murder plot against a black ex-prisoner by three Ku Klux Klan members who worked at a Florida prison began when the FBI was alerted by a confidential informant inside the Klan. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office said in a written statement […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A man whose family reported him missing at sea for more than two months is back on dry land and reuniting with his family. The crew of a German container ship spotted Louis Jordan sitting on the overturned hull of his 35-foot sailboat Thursday. He was floating about 200 miles off […]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — College students and administrators are struggling to deal with racist incidents on campus despite repeated condemnations. This week alone, Bucknell University expelled three students for making racist comments during a campus radio broadcast, and Duke University said one of its students placed a noose in a tree on campus. Earlier, […]

LAUSANNE, Switzerland With one phase of nuclear talks over, Iran and six world powers now have an ambitious to-do list that — if implemented — will cut significantly into Iran’s bombcapable technology while giving Tehran quick access to bank accounts, oil markets and other financial assets blocked by international sanctions. But the deal is far […]

PARIS ( AP) — The copilot of the doomed Germanwings flight repeatedly sped up the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend the A320 into the Alps, the French air accident investigation agency said today. The chilling new detail from the BEA agency is based on an initial reading of the plane’s “black […]