PORTLAND (AP) — The University of Southern Maine’s multicultural affairs office is hosting an anti-hate rally in Portland in response to anti-Muslim sentiment around the country, including an incident at the university. The gathering is scheduled for Wednesday at noon at the university’s Woodbury Campus Center. The university says the purpose of the event is […]

COLUMBIA FALLS (AP) — Maine-made wreaths are about to begin a journey down to Arlington National Cemetery. A project called Wreaths Across America kicks off a convoy from Maine to Virginia this weekend. It will beled by Grand Marshal Candy Martin, the 2016 president of the American Gold Star Mothers. Martin will lead 10 tractor-trailers […]

HODGDON (AP) – A police officer in Maine is recovering after her vehicle collided with an SUV in Hodgdon. Police say Houlton Police Officer Jasmine Cyr was on routine patrol traveling south on U.S. 1 in Hodgdon on Friday night. She turned into a business parking lot to turn around and head back north. As […]

PORTLAND (AP) – Fishing regulators are looking to hire Maine fishermen to help study New England’s imperiled cold water shrimp population. The interstate Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Maine Department of Marine Resources say they plan to hire five shrimp trapping vessels to collect samples of Northern shrimp. The fishermen will also be […]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Some people managed to text loved ones goodbye and “I love you” before they died in an Oakland warehouse fire that claimed three dozen lives, officials said, as heart-rending reports of victims’ last moments emerged from the most lethal building fire in the U.S. in more than a decade. Also Monday, […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Relatives of Walter Scott, the black motorist fatally shot while fleeing a traffic stop, say they are confident justice will prevail even though a South Carolina jury could not reach a verdict in the murder trial of a white former police officer charged in his death. Circuit Judge Clifton Newman on […]

WASHINGTON — Has the Obama administration quietly recognized the World War I-era killing of Armenians as genocide? The term has long been taboo for U.S. officials, including President Barack Obama, who have instead talked of mass atrocity and historical tragedy. But Obama’s U.N. ambassador last week went further than her boss by describing the event […]

PORTLAND — The hope Maine marijuana proponents had of growing their own pot by the Yuletide is going up in smoke because a recount of the ballot question to legalize the practice will likely drag into next year. The recount began Monday in Augusta. Maine residents last month approved legalizing marijuana by a narrow 4,073-vote […]