BRUNSWICK The Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office on Friday announced the indictments of three individuals for felony trafficking in a variety of illegal drugs. The indictments stem from unrelated incidents that allegedly occurred in Brunswick between October and December 2011. A fourth man was indicted for possession of drugs with criminal forfeiture in connection to […]

TOPSHAM Republican State Rep. Kerri Prescott of Topsham confirmed Monday that she will not seek a fourth term representing District 60 in the Maine House of Representatives. Prescott, who is completing her third term in the Legislature, currently co-chairs the Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee. She said Monday that while she’s loved serving […]

BATH Combined, Maria Holt and Elisabeth King have logged around a half-century of opposition to nuclear power. For the next year, King said Friday, the duo will continue “chasing narratives” from a segment of that history for a book with the working title: “The Death of Maine Yankee: Shutting Down a Nuke.” Pat Dostie, the […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Lottery officials say the winning ticket in Saturday’s $336.4 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Newport. Officials said today that no one has come forward yet to claim the prize. The winning numbers were 1- 10- 37- 52- 57 and Powerball number 11. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word “ intern” into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president. Her decades- old secret about her trysts with John F. Kennedy was still safe then. Outed in a 2003 biography and a New York newspaper […]

DETROIT ( AP) — Seven members of a Midwest militia accused of plotting to overthrow the government are set to stand trial, where jurors will decide whether federal authorities prevented an attack by homegrown extremists or simply made too much of the boasts by weekend warriors who had pledged to “take our nation back.” Opening […]

ATHENS, Greece ( AP) — Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and cleanup crews swept rubble from the streets of central Athens today following a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the nation from bankruptcy. At least 45 buildings were burned, including one of the capital’s […]

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama has sent Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade through cuts in government spending and higher taxes on the wealthy. At the same time, he wants to boost spending in key areas such as transportation and education. The spending blueprint is […]

LOS ANGELES As the music industry gathered in downtown Los Angeles for the annual Grammy Awards gala, the body of pop superstar Whitney Houston was resting blocks away in the county morgue as investigators awaited the results of an autopsy to determine what killed her Saturday afternoon at the Beverly Hilton hotel after two days […]

The Grammy Awards was transformed into a Whitney Houston memorial, where attendees celebrated the pop star and the show hurriedly assembled a last-minute tribute. Sunday night’s ceremony, just a day after Houston was found dead in her Beverly Hills hotel room, began with the tone of a wake, where the music industry family honored one […]