WASHINGTON (AP) — Rapid-fire diplomacy played out on two continents Tuesday in advance of an “expected” summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, the strengthening resolve coming after a series of high-risk, high-reward gambits by the two leaders. Officials won’t say that the June 12 Singapore summit is back on, but […]

SACO — Students at Young School got a chance to meet one of their favorite authors on Tuesday. Maine children’s author and illustrator Chris Van Dusen met with students and discussed his work that included designing the lobster license plate and creating art work for L.L. Bean catolog covers and illustrating and writing the popular […]

Portland firefighters battled an apartment house fire Tuesday afternoon, during nearly record-breaking temperatures, at 274 Valley St. It was the second major fire reported within a three-hour period. Crews were called around 3:15 p.m. to a fire in a three-family homeat 41 Alder St. in the city’s Bayside neighborhood. No one was hurt in the Alder […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a sometimes brash political outsider whose unconventional resume as a Rhodes scholar and Navy SEAL officer made him a rising star in the Republican Party, resigned Tuesday amid a widening investigation that arose from an affair with his former hairdresser. The 44-year-old governor spent nearly six months fighting […]