BRUNSWICK In its new interactive exhibit, Curtis Memorial Library aims to inspire girls to consider careers in science, technology and mathematics, fields where women are traditionally underrepresented. The exhibit, “Engineers Make a World of Difference,” is on loan from the STAR network and will be on display until Dec. 29. The STAR network is led […]

NEW YORK Investigators worked through the night to determine what led a truck driver to plow down people on a riverfront bike path near the World Trade Center, brandishing air guns and yelling “God is great” in Arabic as his deadly route of terror ended with a crash, authorities said. Eight people were killed and […]

BATH Kara Thompson of Bath received an unexpected bit of good news on Monday — she was getting a new kidney. Thompson was born with only one kidney, a fact she discovered after she collapsed while she was walking a friend’s dog. She learned at the hospital that her kidney was failing, and she was […]

BRUNSWICK Brunswick police have released the identity of two people killed in separate crashes reported Saturday and Monday. The name of the driver who died in a fatal crash Monday night on US Route 1 west of Cook’s Corner was Katherine Rand, 78, of Brunswick. Brunswick police received a report shortly before 8 p.m. Monday […]

BATH — Tri-County Literacy will sponsor its first annual Candy Cane Festival Saturday, Dec. 9, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bath Middle School, 6 Old Brunswick Rd., Bath. Tickets are $5.50 in advance and $7.00 at the door. Children under 2 are free. All proceeds will go toward the organization’s mission “to […]

WASHINGTON Federal prosecutors on Tuesday released new information about Paul Manafort’s financial holdings, but said it’s hard to determine exactly how much the former Trump campaign chairman is worth because of “varying representations.” The court filing submitted by lawyers from the office of special counsel Robert Mueller comes one day after Manafort and business associate […]

PORTLAND Drought conditions across much of Maine may have contributed to the large numbers of trees that toppled during a storm that walloped the Northeast this week, officials said. The storm cut power to nearly 1.5 million homes and businesses in the region at its peak. It left more Mainers in the dark than even […]

FULLERTON, Calif. Police arrested seven people after scuffles and at least one serious fight broke out between protesters and people attending a speech by conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at a Southern California college Tuesday night. Dozens of protesters at California State University, Fullerton stood outside barricades chanting “Black lives matter,” and “Cops and the Klan […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The lawyer for a Portland landlord convicted of violations following a deadly apartment fire is running short on time to continue his appeal. Gregory Nisbet sought a new trial when he was convicted of code violations stemming from a fire that killed six people in November 2014. His lawyers later asked to […]