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Richard and Anne Jorgensen were told they would receive help with rent through January, but that changed when funds for the Emergency Rental Assistance program ran out sooner than expected.

The aim is to to prevent price spikes and starve President Vladimir Putin of funding for his war in Ukraine.

Patrick Xavier Clark was being held in jail Friday awaiting a bond hearing.

Two days after Superintendent Xavier Botana said the issues would be corrected, some ed techs said they once again didn't receive their correct pay.

He spent nearly 20 hours alone, treading water in the Gulf of Mexico after falling off a cruise ship and being saved on Thanksgiving.

Supervisors in Cochise County have certified its midterm election results after blowing past the deadline in state law.

Distaste for Herschel Walker appears to be bolstering Democratic enthusiasm for Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia's Tuesday runoff.

A Nevada wetlands is the only place the Dixie Valley toad is known to exist on Earth.

The visit is the first by a French president since Valery Giscard d’Estaing traveled to Lafayette and New Orleans in 1976.

The United States' newest nuclear stealth bomber has made its public debut after years of secret development.

The Maine attorney general's office says a police officer was legally justified in fatally shooting a man who rammed a cruiser several times.

Gov. Mills established the 11-member council after it was exposed that culture on the Army side is permissive of sexual abuse, retaliates against soldiers who come forward and drives women out of the service.

Stocks had been on the upswing for the last month on hopes the worst of the nation’s high inflation may have passed already.

Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and deputy counsel Pat Philben appeared for hours to answer questions that they had dodged in previous sessions.

Democrats have voted to remove Iowa as the leadoff state on the presidential nominating calendar and replace it with South Carolina starting in 2024.

Portland schools said nearly one-third of the high school's staff and students were unable to attend class Friday morning due to illness.

With fuel oil costs sharply higher than a year ago, the governor said she and legislative leaders will continue to negotiate an aid package over the weekend.

FBI Director Chris Wray said China could use TikTok, the popular video-sharing app, to collect data on its users that could be used for traditional espionage operations.

The Lewiston Democrat said imposing railroad pact by legislation was 'premature.'

Biden landed in Boston on Friday afternoon to join fundraising efforts from afar.

The federal government is investigating the hotline's outage, Health and Human Services spokeswoman Sarah Lovenheim said in a tweet late Thursday night.

Tyler Flexon, 26, of Portland, died Tuesday after he was found with a gunshot wound near the intersection of Sherman and Mellen streets.

The nine-person federal jury ruled in favor of George Loder, of Scarborough, a retired detective who accused his former employer of retaliating against him for reporting alleged illegal activity at a state police intelligence center.

Delegates from more than 150 countries, plastic industry representatives, environmentalists, scientists, waste pickers, tribal leaders and others affected by the pollution attended in person or virtually.

The president has said he wants paid sick leave for all workers, but Republican lawmakers continue to block attempts that would require time off for family and medical leave.

The White House announced that President Biden plans to meet William and Catherine on Friday when he is in Boston.

Fired as a golf pro, Gary Rees, 78, says "I was told I was (too) old for the job."

Officials have begun a nine-month process to consider using the state-owned Lower Road rail corridor for a recreational trail that would pass through several central Maine communities.

Chase Dmuchowsky's car was found idling in the middle of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge a month before his body was recovered on Sears Island.

The West Mountain expansion proposal is still under permitting review at the state level.

Before the pandemic, premature aging of children's brains was observed in cases of chronic childhood stress, trauma, abuse and neglect.

The Trump Organization, the entity through which Trump manages his real estate holdings and other ventures, is accused of helping executives avoid paying income taxes on company-paid perks such as Manhattan apartments and luxury cars.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated that Russian President Vladimir Putin remains open to talks but the Western demand that Moscow first withdraws its troops from Ukraine is unacceptable.

Jones faces court orders to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax.

The parcels arrived after a package containing an explosive device sent to the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid ignited upon opening and injured an employee.

The strength of November's hiring gain will raise concerns that the Fed may now have to keep rates high even longer than many had assumed.

After protests against zero COVID spread to more than a dozen metropolises, some of China's largest cities this week started lifting lockdowns, canceling mass testing and allowing some close contacts to quarantine at home.

The rapper now appears to have migrated to another right-wing platform, former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social, where an account under Ye’s name posted about Musk on Friday.

After sorting and packing gifts for weeks, volunteers have begun handing some of the toys and books off to the social service agencies that will distribute them to families.

Demand from waves of RSV, flu and covid are causing sporadic shortages of children' drugs like Ibuprofen and Tylenol for some hospitals and retail stores.

Five stores are currently allowed to sell recreational marijuana, but as many as 33 are allowed under state law.

The tectonic decision to radically remake his party’s presidential nominating calendar for 2024 came as a shock to party officials and state leaders who had been lobbying hard to gain a place in the early calendar.

Xavier Botana also said ed techs would receive back pay on Friday, but the district continues to work toward solving other payroll problems affecting a range of employees.

Sen. Susan Collins laughed when told she was the first Republican to arrive, promising, 'I’m sure there will be others.'

Lansing Diocese said the allegations are 'deeply disturbing.'

But many of the rules that brought people into the streets of Shanghai, Beijing and at least six other cities remain in force.

Neuralink is one of many groups working on linking brains to computers, efforts aimed at helping treat brain disorders, overcoming brain injuries and other applications.

VoteCast, a broad survey of the midterm electorate, found 7 in 10 voters said the Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion rights was an important factor in their midterm decisions.

Jurors are expected to begin deliberations Friday in the case of George Loder, a retired state police detective who claims he faced professional retaliation for blowing the whistle on illegal practices at a state intelligence agency.

A watchdog report said it had 'confirmed that the processes and computer programs worked as designed, which reduces the ability to select specific taxpayers for an NRP(National Research Program) audit.'

The decision by the three-judge panel represents a significant win for federal prosecutors.

A 26-year-old man, who police have not named, died after he was found shot near the intersection of Sherman and Mellen streets Tuesday.

Several towns responded to the structure fire on Bayou Road.

The settlement follows a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said Maine schools cannot exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education.

CNN and the Gannett newspaper chain are laying off staffers this week. Other cuts are expected at other major news organizations.

Supporters said the measure headed toward a state referendum would close a loophole that allows foreign governments to spend on Maine issue campaigns.

Everything else prosecutors presented, through a month's of testimony from 44 witnesses, 'was smoke and mirrors,' Alan Jackson said.

He led the ruling Communist Party after the Tiananmen Square massacre and was China's president for 10 years.

Eric Bard, formerly of Sidney, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for allegedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old in 2011 and 2012. The conviction was later overturned, and he now faces a new trial.

The search committee, lead by Roger Katz, will hold public listening sessions Dec. 5 and Dec. 6 in Bangor and Augusta, respectively, to gather feedback about what faculty, staff and community members would like to see in a president.