BRUNSWICK — Leaders of Brunswick’s two hospitals said Wednesday that cuts proposed to the MaineCare program by Gov. Paul LePage would cost them nearly $ 3 million over the next two years. If the Legislature enacts LePage’s proposal as written, Mid Coast Hospital would face cuts of $ 2.2 million, while Parkview Adventist Medical Center […]

BRUNSWICK — A 23-year-old man remains in Cumberland County Jail today facing felony charges of aggravated trafficking in crack cocaine after Brunswick police arrested him Tuesday afternoon at the Brunswick Recreation Center. Roy “Boo” Jackson, 23, whose address was not listed, was charged with Class A aggravated trafficking in crack cocaine and Class B unlawful trafficking […]

BATH — Bath police issued a release late this morning seeking help from the public in locating a local man wanted for questioning about events related to the death of 35-year-old Sean Duffy. Duffy’s body was found Saturday afternoon in a room at the Hampton Inn on Commercial Street. Bath Police Lt. Stan Cielinski reiterated today […]

CHICAGO ( AP) — Seven teenagers were arrested today in the beating and robbery of a 17- year- old Chicago high school student that was filmed and posted online, city police said. One of the teens was charged as an adult and the rest — a 15-year-old girl, two 16-year-old boys and three 15- year-old […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet’s most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation could threaten the credibility of their work. “My main concern is that it puts the organization […]

TEMPLE, Texas (AP) — A tractor- trailer clipped a school bus full of students Tuesday, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 32 people — 29 of them children — to a central Texas hospital. Police said a 9- year- old boy was ejected through the escape hatch in the bus roof, and the […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The National Weather Service says at least two people have been injured after powerful spring-like storms spawned tornadoes in Indiana, Kentucky and Mississippi. Forecaster Ed Agre says two people were injured after a twister touched down just after 4 p.m. Tuesday in southern Mississippi’s Marion County, destroying a mobile home and […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling Internet company, as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders under a new leader. The departure, announced Tuesday, punctuates the end of an era at Yahoo, a tarnished Internet icon that has spent much of the last decade […]

MOSCOW ( AP) — Russia will block any attempt by the West to secure U.N. support for the use of force against Syria, Russia’s foreign minister said today. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia’s draft of a U.N. Security Council resolution on the violence in Syria that circulated Monday was aimed at making it explicitly […]