HARPSWELL — A Bath man charged with several counts of sexual abuse of a minor by Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department in January, was arrested Thursday by Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department and charged with four additional counts of sexual abuse of minors. The new arrests stem from the investigation launched by Sagadahoc County detectives. That probe […]

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — A California woman has her gold necklace back months after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet. San Rafael sanitation district employees were performing routine cleaning work on a pipeline last month when they came across Ann Aulakh’s necklace. Aulakh’s friend had left a message with the district after the […]

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines renamed a commercial flight from Chicago to Los Angeles “ Oscar 1” in honor of its tiniest and most famous passenger. Oscar had his own boarding pass — and a major entourage — as film academy president Tom Sherak carried the golden statuette through O’Hare International Airport. The Oscar statuettes […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, marking the end of an era for the company that brought photography to the masses more than a century ago. Founded by George Eastman in 1880, Kodak was known all over the […]

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England’s southern coast. Now, researchers from the U.S. Navy are hoping to confirm what the men who discovered the wreck believe: that the sunken ship off the coast […]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A top former aide to former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is running in the special election to serve as the interim replacement for the Arizona Democrat who was wounded in a shooting rampage a year ago. Democrat Ron Barber was Giffords’ district director. He also was wounded in the January 2011 […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Springsteen has announced that two saxophonists, including Clarence Clemons’ nephew, will join his upcoming world tour with the E Street Band. The announcement was made Thursday on Springsteen’s website. Springsteen says longtime collaborator Eddie Manion will “share the saxophone role” with Jake Clemons. Returning singers Cindy Mizelle and Curtis King, […]

ATLANTA ( AP) — More and more U. S. adults are being told by their doctor to get out and exercise, according to government survey released Thursday. Nearly 33 percent of adults who saw a doctor in the previous year said they were told to exercise. That was up from about 23 percent in 2000, […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan police say a woman has been strangled to death, apparently for bearing a baby girl instead of a boy, and her husband is the main suspect. The police chief for Khanabad district in Kunduz province says the man fled the area last week about the time his 22-year-old wife was […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — William Theophilus Brown, a painter who enjoyed success for more than half-a-century and was closely associated with the San Francisco Bay area’s “figurative” movement, has died. He was 92. Brown died Wednesday in his apartment at a San Francisco high- rise retirement community, gallery owner Thomas Reynolds told the San Francisco […]