PORTLAND (AP) — Two Maine communities are getting $600,000 over three years to support the Maine Health Access Foundation’s Thriving in Place initiative. Millinocket Regional Hospital and Washington Hancock Community Agency/Community Caring Collaborative join seven other communities across the state now in the implementation phase of the Thriving in Place initiative. Barbara Leonard is president […]

WASHINGTON And you thought Election Day was in November. Electors are set to gather in every state today to formally elect Donald Trump president even as anti- Trump forces try one last time to deny him the White House. Protests are planned for state capitals, but they are unlikely to persuade the Electoral College to […]

PRINCEVILLE, N.C. When Dianne Hines pulls up to her flood-damaged home in Princeville, she has no interest in going inside. Her ruined furniture, books, pictures and other belongings lie stacked at the curb, left there by volunteers with Samaritan’s Purse. They’ve placed family photos that might be saved on the porch. Glassware, a girl’s pink-and-blue […]

CONCORD, N.H. Drug overdose deaths have increased by 33 percent in the past five years across the country, with some states seeing jumps of nearly 200 percent. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 states saw increases in overdose deaths resulting from the abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a […]

BEIRUT A fragile cease-fire was back on in Syria on today, as buses resumed evacuating those still remaining in eastern Aleppo following days of delays, and others departed with the sick and wounded from two rebel-besieged Shiite villages in the country’s north. At the United Nations, the Security Council was expected to vote within hours […]

BEIJING China says its military seized a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater glider in the South China Sea, but that it will give it back. President-elect Donald Trump, however, says the Chinese government should be told “we don’t want the drone they stole back” and “let them keep it!” This comes after U.S. officials confirmed that […]