ROME (AP) — State police are investigating after authorities say about $2,300 in tools were stolen from a construction site in Rome that is expected to become a retreat for veterans who were injured during combat. The Travis Mills Foundation is renovating the former summer home of Elizabeth Arden, which was built in 1929. The […]

FALMOUTH (AP) — A homeless man charged in the death of a man discovered bleeding in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Falmouth has been ordered held without bail. The Portland Press Herald reports that 27-year-old Kenneth Briggs made no comments during his initial court appearance Monday in Portland. Briggs was arrested Friday and charged with […]

WASHINGTON Donald Trump’s paid campaign staffers have declared on their personal social media accounts that Muslims are unfit to be American citizens, ridiculed Mexican accents, called for Secretary of State John Kerry’s death by hanging and stated their readiness for a possible civil war, according to a review of their postings by The Associated Press. […]

DENVER Kansas is asking a federal appeals court to keep thousands of people who haven’t yet provided the documents to prove they are U.S. citizens from voting in November’s election. Judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver are set to hear arguments Tuesday in the legal fight over how the state […]

WASHINGTON Traffic fatalities were up 9 percent in the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year, continuing a surge in deaths that began two years ago as the economy improved and travel picked up, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday by the National Safety Council. An estimated 19,100 people […]

MINNEAPOLIS The disclosure that some pills found at Prince’s Paisley Park home and studio were counterfeit and contained the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl strongly suggests the pills came to the superstar musician illegally. But exactly how Prince obtained the drugs is still unknown, four months after he collapsed in an elevator on April 21 and […]

ANKARA, Turkey Turkey’s artillery shelled Islamic State group targets across the border in Syria for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, a senior Turkish official said, amid reports that Turkey-backed Syrian rebels were preparing an offensive against an IS-held border town in northern Syria. The Ankara official said the Turkish shelling came after mortar rounds, […]

UNITED NATIONS Thousands of children trying to escape gang violence and poverty in Central America have made their way to the United States this year — and there is no sign that the flow is letting up, the U.N. children’s agency said in a report released late Monday. In the first six months of 2016, […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. A white man charged with the shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston “self-radicalized” in the months before the attack and grew more entrenched in his beliefs in white supremacy, according to court papers prosecutors filed this week in federal court. The information filed Monday was part of a list of more […]

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials say Turkish and American justice officials are discussing Turkey’s demands for the extradition of a U.S.-based cleric accused of masterminding last month’s failed coup attempt. Turkey’s Justice Ministry says its officials opened talks Tuesday with U.S. Justice Department and State Department officials in the capital, Ankara. Fethullah Gulen has lived […]