PORTLAND (AP) — Federal fishing managers say they’ve set new measures to try to resolve a dispute between members of the East Coast scallop fishery. Small-boat scallop fishermen in the northern Gulf of Maine area have complained in recent years that bigger boats are dominating the fertile fishing grounds. The two types of boats operate […]

WALDOBORO (AP) — Authorities are investigating how a car landed upside down in a Maine river in a crash that left one person dead. Waldoboro Police Chief Labombarde told the Courier Gazette that a passerby saw the vehicle on its roof in the Medomak River early Sunday river. He says there was one female victim […]

WASHINGTON In a historic groundswell of youth activism, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied across the U.S. against gun violence Saturday, vowing to transform fear and grief into a “vote-them-out” movement and tougher laws against weapons and ammo. They took to the streets of the nation’s capital and such cities as Boston, […]

On the same day Facebook bought ads in U.S. and British newspapers to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social media site faced new questions about collecting phone numbers and text messages from Android devices. The website Ars Technica reported that users who checked data gathered by Facebook on them found that it had […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Adult film star Stormy Daniels says she was threatened to keep silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006, telling her story in a highly anticipated interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday. Daniels said she was threatened by an unidentified man in Las Vegas to keep quiet about […]

MOSCOW (AP) — With the fire alarms silent and staff reportedly nowhere to be seen, a fire at a shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school recess killed 64 people in eastern Russia. The fire at the Winter Cherry mall in Kemerovo, a city in Siberia, about […]

SKOWHEGAN (AP) — Jury selection is expected later this week in the trial of a Maine man charged with killing his wife and burying her in a shallow grave behind his parents’ home. Luc Tieman, who’s pleaded not guilty to murder, told police that he watched his wife overdose in 2016. An autopsy showed that […]