NEW YORK – A.J. Burnett said he apologized to his New York Yankees teammates Sunday for a clubhouse fit that left him with cuts on both hands. Sporting a bandage on each palm, Burnett said he had no trouble playing long toss and the lacerations don’t affect his ability to grip the ball. He expects […]

– Los Angeles Times SANTA MONICA – Living with a secret is psychologically destructive, Annette Baran believed. Baran, a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, co-wrote “The Adoption Triangle,” an influential 1978 book credited with giving early shape to the open-adoption movement. Baran died July 11 at age 83. She placed more than a thousand babies, […]

Kevin Youkilis is the Boston hero against Texas, driving in the tying and winning runs in a 3-2 victory.

When boaters jump on board for a day or weekend of fun on the water, drowning is probably not at the top of their minds. Most boaters consider their skills to be adequate, few have ever actually seen someone drown, and certainly no one expects the unthinkable to happen to themselves or someone they know. […]

The decades-long project has answers for towns like Rollinsford, which recently suffered chronic flooding.

PORTLAND — Congress could force the Federal Emergency Management Agency to review its flood mapping models for the sheltered harbors that dominate much of the Maine coastline. The provision, included in the Flood Insurance Reform Priorities Act, follows local concerns over the accuracy of FEMA’s newly proposed floodplain maps. Earlier this week, several southern Maine […]

NEW YORK – It may be hot and sticky outside, but stores across the nation are already getting a chill thinking about Christmas. Retailers are having second thoughts about orders they placed earlier this year, when the economic recovery looked stronger and Americans were more willing to spend money. Now they worry they could end […]

At the dedication of the Long Creek Air Memorial in South Portland on Sunday, July 11, Vina Hannan Sawyer rings a bell in memory of James and Nancy Little, two children she tried to save while she herself was badly burned in the worst air disaster in Maine history. The granite memorial commemorates “those who […]

BATH — Volunteers are sought to help complete the Whiskeag Trail, a five-mile corridor linking the Bath Area Family YMCA to the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust’s Thorne Head Preserve. Work days, planned for July 20-22, will consist of building bog bridges and water bars, rerouting trails and implementing drainage and erosion control measures. Volunteers are asked […]

SCARBOROUGH — According to wildlife biologist Stephen DeStefano, “coyotes now occupy every state in the U.S., except Hawaii, and they are one of the most successful species in North America.” But this wasn’t always the case. DeStefano, author of “Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia,” will discuss the coyote as an […]