LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stan Lee, the creative dynamo who revolutionized the comic book and helped make billions for Hollywood by introducing human frailties in Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk, died Monday. He was 95. Lee was declared dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to […]

It’s going to snow hard over most of western and northern Maine during the day Tuesday. Indeed, the state is facing a wintry week of weather even though the official start of winter is still several weeks away. The National Weather Service office in Gray is forecasting that towns in the higher elevations – such […]

LEWISTON — Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Services, one of the largest such nonprofits in the state, has a new leader – but she’ll look familiar to anyone familiar with the agency. Meagan Davis, the agency’s associate director, will take over next month as executive director. She will succeed Marty McIntyre, who has spent 34 […]

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — More than a dozen coroner search and recovery teams looked for human remains from a Northern California wildfire that killed at least 42 — making it the deadliest in state history — as anxious relatives visited shelters and called police hoping to find loved ones alive. Lisa Jordan drove 600 miles […]

Three hunters got stuck in a bog in New Gloucester on Monday evening and were “cold and wet up to their hips” when they were later rescued, a fire official said. Capt. Scott Doyle of the New Gloucester Fire and Rescue Department said the hunters became stuck in a bog off 495 Intervale Road, which […]

Standardized test results for Maine students dipped slightly in the 2017-18 school year, with half of Maine students testing at or above grade level for English, and 37 percent testing at or above grade level for math. In 2016-17, 53 percent of students were at or above grade level in English, and 39 percent were […]

At a weekend commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, the president who proudly declares himself a “nationalist” stood apart, even on a continent where his brand of populism is on the rise. He began his visit with a tweet slamming the French president’s call for a European defense force, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is in place and will soon be strung with 50,000 lights as one of New York City’s star holiday attractions, a gift from a same-sex married couple. The 72-foot-tall, 12-ton Norway spruce arrived on a flatbed trailer Saturday morning and was hoisted by a crane into […]

The Maine Warden Service’s search for a missing hunter from New Hampshire ended Sunday afternoon after game wardens discovered his body in a wooded area in New Portland known for tree stands that the hunter liked to use. Lt. Kevin Adam, search and rescue coordinator for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, in […]

FREEPORT — How does a spunky Laborador retriever become a force in the emerging and slightly mysterious field of influencer marketing? By burrowing full speed into leaf piles, trying to squeeze herself into children’s furniture, biting trees and bathing in mud whenever possible. At least that’s how Stella is doing it. She gets some help […]