Two experienced politicians run for Maine’s Senate District 34 seat, which includes Acton, Kennebunk, Lebanon, North Berwick, Wells and part of Berwick. The seat is currently held by Republican Ronald Collins of Wells, Republican Robert Foley of Wells, an insurance salesman, former Wells town selectman who is serving his second term as a state representative […]

LONDON — A man suspected of trying to steal a Magna Carta from its display case at Salisbury Cathedral has been arrested after he was wrestled to the ground by cathedral employees, British authorities said Friday. Wiltshire Police said cathedral alarms sounded Thursday afternoon in the southwestern English city when a person armed with a […]

LUBUMBASHI, Congo — The most surprising thing about the fact that Congolese hospitals detain patients who fail to pay their bills is that it’s no secret: Administrators, doctors and nurses openly discuss it, and the patients are held in plain sight. An Associated Press investigation found that only one of more than 20 hospitals and […]

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities arrested a man in Florida on Friday in connection with the mail-bomb scare that widened to 12 suspicious packages, the Justice Department said. Law enforcement officers were seen on television examining a white van, its windows covered with an assortment of stickers, in the city of Plantation. They covered the vehicle […]

WASHINGTON  — It didn’t last. With the country on edge over a widening pipe-bomb scare, talk of national unity quickly gave way to finger-pointing. President Donald Trump cast blame on the media for fomenting anger in society, while candidates across the country traded partisan broadsides. Less than two weeks before midterm elections, the discovery of […]

SKOWHEGAN — A Skowhegan real estate developer and former Skowhegan Planning Board member who ran for a seat on the Board of Selectmen in 2015 and 2017 pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bangor this week to one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography. Christopher Kruse, 50, faces five to 20 years […]

RICHMOND — A body was found Friday afternoon after authorities spent hours searching for a man reported missing the previous night from a boat on the Kennebec River. The body’s identity was not positively confirmed by the state Medical Examiner’s Office, but divers and other public safety workers were searching for Mark Johnston, 64, who […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A sex offender parolee who killed a University of Utah student and track athlete had been lurking on campus for days trying to confront the woman who had broken up with him weeks earlier when she discovered his criminal background, authorities said Thursday. Melvin Rowland, 37, spent the hours before […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Amber Heard has a movie coming out this weekend that will be new to theaters and mass audiences, but for her it’s actually quite old. “London Fields,” an adaptation of a 1989 Martin Amis mystery, has been in some stage of development for almost 20 years. Heard didn’t get involved […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than two weeks before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a plan to lower prices for some prescription drugs, saying it would stop unfair practices that force Americans to pay much more than people in other countries for the same medications. “We are taking aim at the global […]