AUGUSTA (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says that Maine has received approval for additional specialists to work with veterans on justice outreach and health care. The governor says that the Maine Bureau of Veterans Services has brought renewed federal attention to issues involving justice-connected veterans and their post-incarceration transition back into civilian life. The […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine teenager has been indicted by a grand jury on murder charges stemming from the killing of his parents on Halloween 2016. The Friday indictment came less than two months after a judge decided that Andrew Balcer, who was a month shy of turning 18 when his parents and the family […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Maine’s secretary of state can’t be excluded from participating in the work of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, on which he serves. A U. S. District Court judge’s ruling Friday in Washington largely agrees with Matthew Dunlap’s argument that as a commission member, he […]

KITTERY ( AP) — The Maine State Police say slippery conditions on the Maine Turnpike in Kittery contributed to a crash between a tractor trailer truck and a car that spun out, temporarily blocking the southern end of the highway. There were no injuries reported in the crash that occurred Saturday morning after the big […]

SEATTLE A federal judge in Seattle on Saturday partially lifted a Trump administration ban on certain refugees after two groups argued that the policy prevented people from some mostly Muslim countries from reuniting with family living legally in the United States. U.S. District Judge James Robart heard arguments Thursday in lawsuits from the American Civil […]

MOSCOW Russian officials should review opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s calls for an election boycott to see if they might be breaking the law, the Kremlin said Tuesday, hinting at possible legal repercussions. In a widely anticipated decision, Russia’s top election body ruled Monday to formally bar anti-corruption crusader Navalny from running in the presidential election […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) The top leadership of the Miss America Organization, implicated in an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based on their appearance, intellect and sex lives, resigned on Saturday, with the outgoing president apologizing to a winner whose weight he ridiculed. The president, Josh Randle, told The Associated Press […]

TOPSHAM Topsham firefighters responded to a small fire at Mt. Ararat High School Thursday morning. Interim Fire Chief Mike Labbe said firefighters were called to the school at 5 a.m. and found smoke in the school’s kitchen. Labbe said a motor in a heating unit had burned up, due to a mechanical failure. Firefighters extinguished […]