BELFAST Defense attorneys say a Maine woman charged with murder in the beating death of her 10-year-old daughter is 7 months pregnant. Rockport attorney Steven Peterson said Thursday Sharon Carrillo is expected to give birth to her and her husband’s third child in May. Julio and Sharon Carrillo, of Stockton Springs, are charged with murder […]

PORTLAND The state that dominates the U.S. lobster haul saw the catch fall to its lowest level since 2011 last year, yet the industry is still strong and the crustaceans remain easily available to consumers, regulators said Friday. Maine fishermen caught a little more than 110.8 million pounds of lobster last year, following a stretch […]

WASHINGTON Rattled by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, Donald Trump is facing a shrinking circle of trusted advisers and a staff that’s grim about any prospect of a reset. Even by the standards of Trump’s often chaotic administration, the announcement of Hope Hicks’ […]

ATLANTA (AP) — As companies across America take a stand on guns after the Florida school massacre, Delta Air Lines withstood swift political retribution in its home state of Georgia for cutting ties with the National Rifle Association. Ignoring warnings that the state’s business-friendly image could be tarnished, Republicans in the state legislature voted Thursday […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkish air force hit two positions of pro-government Syrian fighters deployed last week in the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, killing and wounding a number of fighters in an escalation of violence in a region where Turkey has been on the offensive for more than a month, Syrian activists said today. Turkish troops […]

JERUSALEM Israeli police questioned Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife as part of an investigation into a corruption case involving the country’s telecom giant today, casting a shadow on the prime minister’s upcoming visit to Washington. Police investigators entered Netanyahu’s residence this morning. An Associated Press cameraman saw them leave about five hours later. Reports said […]

ATLANTA Police say they don’t know why a popular teacher allegedly fired a handgun inside his classroom, causing a chaotic lockdown and evacuation of his Georgia high school. But it immediately pierced the national debate over whether educators should be armed. As officers arrested Dalton High School social studies teacher Jesse Randal Davidson, his students […]

WASHINGTON Action on gun legislation has skidded to a halt in Congress — not for a lack of bipartisan proposals, but because President Donald Trump’s stunning shift on gun policy left some in his party confused, irritated and scrambling to figure out what to do next. Republicans squirmed over Trump’s call for stricter gun laws […]

WASHINGTON Determined to protect vital American industries, President Donald Trump declared Thursday that he will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, dramatically raising the possibility of a trade showdown with China and other key trading partners. Trump summoned steel and aluminum executives to the White House and told them that next week he would […]