AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine woman accused of running over a Massachusetts teacher in August has been indicted on charges of manslaughter, drunken driving, reckless conduct and leaving the scene of an accident. Police say 22-year-old Carolyn J. Lee of York was driving an SUV that hit Emily Zarnoch, of Quincy, Massachusetts, as she walked […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Health agencies are reporting fewer influenza cases in Maine, but experts warn that the flu season is far from over. Dr. Caroline Teschke, public health program manager at the India Street health clinic, tells the Portland Press Herald that the season is going well but they aren’t letting their guard down yet. […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt is declining to reverse course on a decision to let a Florida company operate the Casco Bay Bridge. Bernhardt told the Legislature’s Transportation Committee on Thursday that MDOT intends to sign the contract next week with Miami-based FDI Services Inc., which will operate the bridge and perform […]

ELLSWORTH (AP) — An energy company planning to tear down a gas station first has to find out whether anyone is buried below the site. WABI-TV reports the proposal to replace the station with new pumps and a larger store in Ellsworth was brought up by R.H. Foster at a planning board meeting Wednesday. The […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland Zoning Board of Appeals has delayed its ruling on a local brewery’s request to overturn a decision prohibiting them from selling snacks to visitors in its tasting room. The Portland Press Herald reports Allagash Brewing Co. hoped to obtain a license from that would allow them to sell prepackaged foods, […]

WASHINGTON Reports of sexual assaults at the three military academies surged by more than 50 percent in the 2014-15 school year, and complaints of sexual harassment also spiked, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. A senior defense official says the sharp increases were due largely to students’ growing confidence in the reporting system […]

HAVANA One year ago, the Cuban government began releasing 53 political prisoners that President Barack Obama wanted freed as part of a historic deal to re-establish diplomatic relations between the former Cold War foes. Obama says he could make the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to post-revolutionary Cuba as early as this spring […]

SEOUL, South Korea South Korea’s resumption of anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts from mammoth speakers in retaliation for the North’s fourth nuclear test is a return to old-fashioned, Cold War-era psychological warfare — something the two Koreas, locked in a standoff over the world’s most heavily armed border, specialize in. Many in Seoul believe the broadcasts will […]