PORTLAND Atlantic puffin chicks on Machias Seal Island in the Gulf of Maine have had the worst breeding season ever recorded, with the majority of chicks starving to death in burrows, scientists said. A drop in the puffins’ food supply is to blame, said Tony Diamond, director of the Atlantic Laboratory for Avian Research at […]

GARDINER State police say they’ve nabbed the culprit who they say test drove a car from a Farmingdale dealership and never returned it. Police had said Jason Maxim gave state troopers a false name and birthday during a traffic stop Saturday night before fleeing on foot. They said he dropped his cellphone while running away. […]

MADISON A parrot that can do a wolf whistle and sometimes sounds like R2-D2 from the “Star Wars” films is on the loose in Maine. Oscar Cornejo tells The Morning Sentinel his 10- year-old Timneh African Grey parrot named Paco became spooked last week and flew off his shoulder. The charcoal gray bird has a […]

BATON ROUGE, La. Heavy trucks and their works crews have begun hauling away mounds of moldy carpet, warped flooring and water-damaged furniture as south Louisiana digs out from flooding the governor estimated Tuesday had wrecked more than 100,000 homes. Piles of debris stretched for miles in some parishes, with the inside of homes torn up […]

WASHINGTON More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president. Donors who were granted time with Clinton included […]