Gov. Paul LePage slammed the state employees’ union in his weekly radio address Wednesday, accusing it of trying to take credit for reforms his administration is proposing in the child protection system after the deaths of two children. LePage’s attack on the Maine State Employees Association came just two days after he said he was listening and responding to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The themes and trappings are familiar for an Ernest Hemingway narrative: Paris, wartime, talk of books and wine and the scars of battle. But the story itself has been little known beyond the scholarly community for decades: “A Room on the Garden Side,” written in 1956, is being published for the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday refused to distance herself from President Donald Trump’s assertions that the media is the “enemy” of the American people. Pressed during a White House briefing on the issue, Sanders said Trump “has made his position known.” In a heated exchange with reporters, she […]

HOLLIS — A 21-year veteran of South Portland Fire Department and a volunteer firefighter in his hometown of Buxton has died following a two-vehicle crash overnight on Route 202. Maine State Police said Lt. Harry Weymouth, 46, of Buxton was operating a 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt eastbound, crossed the centerline and struck a 2014 Ford Fusion […]

SANFORD— Faye Beety has been operating Faye’s Family Daycare on North Avenue for 57 years. She started caring for other people’s children on nights and weekends — she also had a full -time day job — when she was 22. Almost 40 years ago, she began offering daycare services full-time. Beety was thinking she might give up […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Six years ago, a Russian-speaking cybersecurity researcher received an unsolicited email from Kate S. Milton. Milton claimed to work for the Moscow-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky. In an exchange that began in halting English and quickly switched to Russian, Milton said she was impressed by the researcher’s work on exploits — the digital […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Papa John’s says the pizza chain needs him back as its public face, and that it was a mistake for the company to scrub him from its marketing materials after he acknowledged using a racial slur last month. John Schnatter said in an interview with The Associated Press […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump bluntly declared his attorney general should terminate “right now” the federal probe into the campaign that took him to the White House, a newly fervent attack on the special counsel investigation that could imperil his presidency. Trump also assailed the trial, just underway, of his former campaign chairman by […]

PORTLAND – Many people come to Maine for the lobster. PETA wants them to rethink that once they hit the state’s doorstep. PETA has bought ads at the Portland International Jetport, featuring a lobster holding a sign proclaiming, “I’m ME, Not Meat.” It further encourages visitors to “See the individual. Go Vegan.” PETA, which stands […]

AUGUSTA — Maine’s North Atlantic Development Office is putting together a trade mission headed by Gov. Paul LePage for companies interested in increasing business with the United Kingdom and Ireland. The nine-day trade mission in September will feature “business meetings, group events, and unique cultural opportunities designed to help Maine companies expand their business development […]