KINSHASA, Congo Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread to a city, the capital of the northwestern Equateur province, a worrying shift as the risk of infection is more easily passed on in densely populated urban areas. Two suspected cases of hemorrhagic fever were reported in the Wangata health zones, which includes Mbandaka, a city of nearly […]

AUBURN Androscoggin County deputies will soon be wearing body cameras. County commissioners Wednesday unanimously approved spending $126,515 to equip each patrolman with a body camera and to update the cameras in every patrol car. A total of 14 patrol car cameras and 14 body cams will be purchased. The cost includes servers, hardware, software and […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A civil liberties attorney told supreme court justices Wednesday that the state is “putting its thumb on the scale of a highly personal decision” by funding care for low-income pregnant women while refusing to pay if they elect to terminate their pregnancies. But the state attorney general’s litigation chief told justices that […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin is backing President Donald Trump’s plan to cut $15 billion in federal spending on children’s health insurance and other programs, saying the money would be “wasted” otherwise. Close to half the proposed cuts target the Children’s Health Insurance Program, canceling $5.1 billion in funding that wasn’t used […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine attorney general’s office is taking civil action against two white men accused of attacking an African-American man last month. Law enforcement officials say 27-year-old Dusty Leo and 34-year-old Maurice Diggins insulted the victim with a racial epithet before attacking him outside a convenience store in Biddeford. They say the men […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Police in Maine’s largest city say no one will be charged in the stabbing death of a 31- year-old man because the stabbing occurred in self-defense. Anthony Best died as a result of the April 2016 stabbing, which took place during an altercation in a Portland parking lot. Police say a fight […]

WASHINGTON It was one year ago today when Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, was appointed as special counsel to take over the Justice Department’s investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The 12 months since have yielded a flurry of criminal indictments and guilty pleas, tense court appearances, angry […]