HEBRON (AP) — State police in Maine say the two people found dead in a house in Hebron were a father and daughter, and it appears that he fatally shot her before turning the gun on himself. A neighbor discovered the bodies of 56-year-old Daniel Randall and 27-year-old Claire Randall on Thursday. Police say Daniel […]

SKOWHEGAN (AP) — The Maine Ethics Commission has approved a fine against a nonprofit group founded by a Republican state legislator for failing to disclose spending on a campaign flier targeting Democratic Rep. Jeff McCabe. The Portland Press Herald reports the commission on Wednesday approved the $672 penalty against the conservative New England Opportunity Project. […]

AUBURN (AP) — A Maine man accused of attacked another man with a machete after a road rage incident has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. The Sun Journal reports 52-year-old Carlos Genoves was sentenced to more than two months in jail after pleading guilty to criminal threatening. Prosecutors dismissed two felony counts of aggravated […]

WASHINGTON Still grappling with Donald Trump’s surprise election, the nation’s business community has begun to pressure the president-elect to abandon campaign-trail pledges of mass deportation and other hardline immigration policies that some large employers fear would hurt the economy. The push, led by an advocacy group backed by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg and media […]

BROCKTON, Mass. Hundreds of houses of worship are offering sanctuary to people who could face deportation if Presidentelect Donald Trump follows through on his campaign pledge to remove millions of immigrants living in the country illegally. To some churches, sanctuary means spiritual support or legal assistance to fight deportation. Others promise or already are extending […]

WASHINGTON He became a hero as the first American to orbit the Earth and then served as a longtime U.S. senator. But John Glenn, who died Thursday at age 95, continued to defy gravity decades after his initial flight. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts flew into space again at age 77. […]

Tributes poured in for former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn, who died Thursday at age 95. Politicians, astronauts, educators and others called him a hero, with many mentioning the phrase that first sent him into orbit: “Godspeed, John Glenn.” Here’s a look of some of the reactions: — “When John Glenn blasted off from […]

SEOUL, South Korea Park Geun-hye could always rely on one unwavering gift throughout a political career that saw a triumphant return as South Korea’s first female president to the palatial Blue House where she’d lived as a girl: She always enjoyed the reflected devotion, some might say worship, that half the country felt for her […]

MOSUL, Iraq Significant Islamic State group counterattacks in southeastern Mosul inflicted heavy losses on Iraqi forces overnight after a new push deeper into the city this week, according to an Iraqi Army officer. Despite the counterattacks, the fresh Iraqi push appears to have relieved pressure on Iraq’s special forces who have been largely leading the […]

WASHINGTON The U.S.-led coalition has killed 50,000 Islamic State militants in the last two years in Iraq and Syria, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday, describing a conservative total that is a bit larger than what others have stated before. U.S. leaders have routinely expressed reluctance to disclose specific numbers, and note that IS […]