BATH — Less than 20 hours before the chief of naval operations arrived at Bath Iron Works to tour the shipyard and participate in a ceremony, a fire ignited in a building in the south end of the yard Tuesday evening. The west wall of the large, multi-storied storage building, located just north of the Ultra […]

BRUNSWICK — A substantially smaller building, simpler design and the removal of a community room are among modifications proposed by architect Brett Donham to bring plans for a new police station closer to the $5.5 million budget demanded by a town committee. Donham, of Donham & Sweeney Architects, returned to the Police Station Subcommittee on Tuesday […]

It’s time to start planting seeds indoors for late spring planting. Depending where you are ( and what this crazy weather does), late May or early June should be frost free, so we have about eight weeks until planting things like tomatoes. This year I replaced all my fluorescent lights and decided to move plants […]

I started graduate school at the University of Maine two-and-a-half years ago, after Dustin came home and told me about a new program through Military One-Source that offered tuition assistance for military spouses continuing their education. “You might as well try it,” Dustin said, “since we’ll have help with tuition.” And one semester later, the […]

BOSTON ( AP) — The nation’s first full face transplant recipient says he can feel his daughter’s kisses now, a year after the procedure. Dallas Wiens of Fort Worth, Texas, was at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston on Monday to follow up with his transplant team. He says he can use his face more […]

NEW YORK — The new World Trade Center has reached a milestone: The skyscraper being built to replace the terror-wrecked twin towers is now 100 stories high — on its way to becoming New York’s tallest building. Another four feet, and it will surpass the Empire State Building. That should happen within weeks, Steven Coleman of […]

NEW YORK — For years, women have been urged to get screened for breast cancer because the earlier it’s found, the better. Now researchers are reporting more evidence suggesting that’s not always the case. A study in Norway estimates that between 15 and 25 percent of breast cancers found by mammograms wouldn’t have caused any problems […]

DELAND, Fla. ( AP) — A small experimental plane sputtered and crashed in flames into a supermarket at a Florida shopping center Monday evening, injuring five people and sending frightened shoppers running from the complex, authorities said. Several people in the Northgate Shopping Center in DeLand dialed 911 around 7:20 p.m. to report the the […]

WASHINGTON ( AP) — Making a pitch to middleclass voters, President Barack Obama intends to strike back today at a budget plan promoted by House Republicans, which the White House says will hurt the pocketbooks of working families. Obama, in a speech to newspaper executives, was expected to sharply criticize a $3.5 trillion budget proposal […]