BANGOR (AP) — A Hampden man already on the state sex offender registry for sex crimes involving a child has been indicted on federal charges of possession child pornography. Walter Mosher pleaded not guilty to the charge Friday in U.S. District Court in Bangor. A detention hearing is scheduled today. The Bangor Daily News reports […]

RUMFORD ( AP) — Rumford police are investigating after two toddlers fell from a second-story window. Police say the siblings, a 2- year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, were taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life threating after falling out the window Monday afternoon. Capt. Glenn Prescott tells the Sun Journal that the […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — The Scotia Prince ferry that sailed between Portland, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, for more than two decades is going to the scrap heap. The ship that ferried tourists, truckers, gamblers and others was a fixture on the Portland waterfront until 2004, when the Portland-to- Yarmouth service came to an abrupt […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — The commission that will approve Maine’s new public charter schools wants to hear what the public has to say in northern and eastern regions. The Maine State Charter School Commission plans to travel to Aroostook and Washington counties in early April to hear about regional educational needs that could be addressed […]

ST. ALBANS (AP) — Authorities say a 5-year-old girl missing in the woods in the central Maine town of St. Albans has been located uninjured. Maine game wardens and state troopers found Morgan Lawler, who was missing with a family dog behind the family’s residence Monday morning. A search party including wardens, troopers, two aircraft, […]

TOULOUSE, France (AP) — A gunman who killed four people at a French Jewish school may have filmed the attack, the interior minister said today, as hundreds of police combed southern France for the killer, suspected in three other deaths. Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the attacker was “wearing around his neck an apparatus” that […]

ATLANTA (AP) — As the hot-air balloon rose into the blue Georgia sky, skydiver Dennis Valdez remembers seeing a thunderstorm brewing in the distance. Pilot Edward Ristaino seemed concerned but not panicked as he maneuvered the balloon above a field and told the five skydivers to jump. It wasn’t until Valdez was in midair that […]

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales remembers little about the night he is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime shooting rampage, his lawyer says. He has a sketchy memory of events from before and after the killings but recalls very little or nothing of the time the military […]

FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) — With the Afghanistan war’s endgame approaching, the Army’s storied 1st Infantry Division is preparing to take command in the eastern provinces, where the strategy calls for a renewed push this year even as U.S. and allied forces draw down in less violent parts of the country. After months of carefully […]

PEORIA, Ill. ( AP) — As they await an Illinois primary vote whose outcome is hardly assured, Mitt Romney is betting his message of economic proficiency will resonate with Republican voters more than Rick Santorum’s sharply honed conservatism. Both men were competing for the 54 delegates at stake today in Illinois. They were looking to […]