TOPSHAM Topsham’s proposed water safety zone ordinance is still on hold. Despite revisions made at Thursday night’s selectmen meeting, no action was taken toward adopting it. At a previous Selectmen’s meeting, Town Manager Rich Roedner was directed to discuss the ordinance with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Those communications revealed restricting boating […]

AUGUSTA Maine’s Republican governor unveiled a plan Thursday to prevent a state income tax hike. The proposal offered by Gov. Paul LePage includes goals he and House Republicans have fought for: Reducing taxes on corporations and estates while providing some tax relief. The state’s economic forecasting commission this week estimated the federal tax cut passed […]

AUGUSTA Maine’s Republican governor is defending his decision against renewing a contract for a child abuse prevention program. Gov. Paul LePage’s office says that some similar services are already provided by Maine’s existing child abuse and neglect councils. The governor himself experienced abuse as a child. The Community Partnerships for Protecting Children pilot project currently […]

BOSTON A medical student stabbed to death in a Massachusetts library was “The Little Engine That Could,” her mother said Thursday. Deane Kenny Stryker “was a very warm person, always did the right thing, loved to pull a prank, conducted herself with self-respect and respected others,” Michal Kenny said in a statement to The Boston […]

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 […]