AUGUSTA (AP) — Jury selection is underway for an Augusta man charged with fatally stabbing his live-in girlfriend. Justin Pillsbury is charged with murder in the November 2013 death of Jillian Jones. Authorities say he was angry because she talked to another man on the phone. Jury selection began Thursday at the Capital Judicial Center. […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine senator wants to expand the window in which the family of a homicide victim can file a civil lawsuit. Maine law says families have two years from the date of the victim’s death to bring a civil action. Saco Democrat Linda Valentino’s bill would give families six years from the […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine man who pleaded guilty to taking sexually explicit pictures of an 8-year-old girl is headed to prison. The Portland Press Herald reports that 29-year-old Wayne Niski, of South Portland, was sentenced Wednesday in Portland to 16 1/2 years in federal prison. Federal prosecutors say investigators with the Maine State Police […]

FARMINGTON (AP) — Police say a Maine man forged a 90-year-old relative’s signature on several documents and used them to steal more than $76,000 from her bank account. The Lewiston Sun Journal reports that Farmington police say 42-year-old Brent Adams has been charged with theft by deception and forgery. Both charges are felonies. The Kingfield […]

MIAMI A surprisingly restrained Donald Trump used the latest presidential debate to send a none-too-subtle message to Republicans still wary of his insurgent candidacy: “Be smart and unify.” Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio toned down their rhetoric, too, concluding that all out attacks against Trump didn’t work. “I can’t believe how civil it’s been up […]

WAIANAE, Hawaii Allison Alterman likes to swim in the ocean for exercise near her home on Hawaii’s Big Island. Sometimes her swimming group will see spinner dolphins gliding or jumping near their course. If the dolphins stick around, tour boats will inevitably show up, sometimes 20 at a time, all dropping passengers with floaties in […]

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA Skygazers from around the U.S. caught a flight from Alaska to Hawaii for prime viewing of a total solar eclipse that unfolded over parts of Indonesia and the Indian and Pacific oceans. A dozen eclipse enthusiasts were among the 181 passengers on the plane Tuesday that departed Anchorage for Honolulu. The rare event […]

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan Japanese gathered in Tokyo and along the country’s ravaged northeast coast to observe a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. Friday, exactly five years after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck offshore, triggering a devastating tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people and sent reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant into meltdown. Some teared up […]

HAVANA Dozens of uniformed and plainclothes police watch silently every Sunday morning as white-clad dissidents file into Mass at Santa Rita Church in a leafy Havana neighborhood of mansions overlooking the Florida Straits. The officers stand by until the women shout “Freedom!” and try to sit on the street outside the church. The protesters are […]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas With its pages opened to the musings of Hamlet, visitors to Texas A&M University now have the opportunity to see a nearly 400-year-old printing of Shakespeare’s works. After months of anticipation, the university unveiled the traveling “First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare” exhibit Tuesday at a special opening night event. […]