PORTLAND (AP) — Maine is among 18 states that will receive federal grant money through the Preschool Development Grants program to expand access to preschool education for children from low- and moderate-income families. The U.S. Department of Education says Maine will receive a little more than $3.7 million. The money is part of more than […]

FORT KENT (AP) — A bill supported by Maine’s U.S. senators that aims to strengthen security at the country’s northern border has unanimously passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Sens. Susan Collins, a Republican, and Angus King, an independent, co-sponsored the Northern Border Security Review Act, which passed the U.S. Senate last month. It passed […]

SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — Sara Rademaker wants to give the East Coast’s most valuable eels a much shorter commute from river to sushi roll. Baby eels, also called elvers, are at the center of a lucrative business in Maine, which is home to the only large-scale fishing operation for them in the country. Fishermen sold […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — An investigator with Maine’s government accountability office says it’s nearly impossible to measure how much of a problem elder financial abuse has become due to incomplete data. Members of the U.S. Senate Aging Committee received a new report from the Maine office about elder financial abuse. Kathryn Larin, acting director of the office’s Forensic Audit […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — At least 200,000 conservative Muslims rallied peacefully in the Indonesian capital on Friday in the second major protest against its minority Christian governor, who is being prosecuted for alleged blasphemy. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, a political ally of the governor who angered hard-liners by being out of the city during their […]