RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — One of Pakistan’s most notorious extremists mocked the United States during a defiant media conference close to the country’s military headquarters today, a day after the U.S. slapped a $10 million bounty on him. “I am here, I am visible. America should give that reward money to me,” said Hafiz Mohammad […]

MEXICO CITY ( AP) — Sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett, a U.S. expatriate renowned for her dignified portrayals of African-American and Mexican women and who was barred from her home country for political activism during the McCarthy era, has died. She was 96. Maria Antonieta Alvarez, Catlett’s daughter-in-law, said the artist died Monday in a […]

ATLANTA — Dr. Leila Denmark, the world’s oldest practicing physician when she retired at age 103, died Sunday in Athens, her family members said. She was 114. Denmark became the first resident physician at Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children in Atlanta when it opened in 1928, said her grandson, Steven Hutcherson of Atlanta. She also admitted […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — The Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine is “bursting at the seams” and needs to expand, but first must find a suitable site and raise money. Barbee Gilman, president of the museum’s board, says a commercial real estate broker sent out a “request for information” on Tuesday to landowners and other […]

WHITING ( AP) — Maine State Police say a man was killed by a falling tree while he was working on a wood lot in the town of Whiting. Troopers said the body of 66-year-old Edward Dinsmore of Lubec was found Monday evening. Dinsmore had been cutting trees during the afternoon off the Barney Field […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — The Maine House has voted to override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of a bill that seeks to resume MaineCare services to special needs children in the schools. Representatives voted 124-16 Tuesday afternoon to override the governor’s veto. The bill awaited Senate action. The measure directs state agencies to come up with […]

BANGOR (AP) — A Bangor woman has pleaded not guilty to murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend. Gail Judd, 53, was indicted by a grand jury on March 28 for intentional or knowing murder in the death of 47- year- old Michael Drouin. Drouin was found dead on her bedroom floor on Feb. […]

WINTER HARBOR (AP) — The widow of a Maine lobsterman is suing another lobsterman for a 2010 boat collision that killed her husband. Frank Jordan, of Winter Harbor, died after his boat was struck by a lobster boat operated by 38-year-old Phil Torrey. The Bangor Daily News says the Coast Guard is also seeking a […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine finance officials say the state has an additional $14.3 million in state revenues for 2012 caused by a delay in reconciling an account managed by the Maine Revenue Service. Officials said Tuesday that the error was found during a review of month-end account balances in March. H. Sawin Millett Jr., commissioner […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A toddler who disappeared from her father’s home in December in Waterville is turning 2 years old. The family of Ayla Reynolds will mark the occasion with balloons and birthday cake during a vigil today for the missing girl in Portland’s Monument Square. The event is being sponsored by the family of […]