CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s foreign minister has suggested that next month’s presidential elections could be delayed due to the turmoil roiling the nation. The suggestion by a veteran of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime is likely to enrage protesters who have been demanding for the past year that the leader of 33 years hand over […]

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — A 10-year-old boy is suspected of fatally stabbing a 12-year-old friend in the chest with a kitchen knife, authorities say. The older boy died Monday afternoon at a hospital after he was taken from his friend’s home in El Cajon, about 15 miles east of San Diego, said the San […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Russian tanker and its crew have begun offloading more than a million gallons of fuel to an iced-in city along the western coast of Alaska. Two parallel hoses, each 700 yards long, are stretched between the tanker Renda and a pipeline that will deliver the fuel to storage tanks in […]

SEATTLE ( AP) — A 66- year-old snowshoer who had been missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday has been rescued after searchers traversed deep snow and snowshoed up a river valley to pull him from the icy remote backcountry, a national park spokeswoman said. The team reached Yong Chun Kim on Monday afternoon but it […]

MADISON, Wis. ( AP) — Supporters of an unprecedented effort to oust Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker from office said they will turn in more than enough signatures today to force the Republican into a recall election barely a year into his first term. Walker, however, has no plans to be anywhere near the Capitol when […]

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Airbus took in a record number of orders for new commercial aircraft last year as strong demand for its revamped single-aisle plane helped it best U.S. rival Boeing Co. in the race for orders for the fourth year running. The European jet maker said today that it took in 1,419 net […]

ROME (AP) — Italian naval divers today exploded holes in the hull of a cruise ship grounded off a Tuscan island to speed the search for 29 missing people while seas were still calm. One official said there was still a “glimmer of hope” that survivors could be found. Prosecutors, meanwhile, prepared to question the […]

CARIBOU ( AP) — Police say they have solved a string of home burglaries that have plagued Caribou for several months. Police Chief Mike Gahagan says 22-year-old Cody Rogers was arrested last week by local and state police. Gahagan says thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry had been stolen from 15 area residences since July […]

AUBURN (AP) — A worker at a Maine food pantry has been charged with having sexual contact with a child at his home. Police say 41- year- old Jonathan Dubay of Gray was arrested Monday at the Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn where he is manager of safety and facilities. Authorities say he is […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — The mother of a Maine toddler who went missing before Christmas says she’s arranging with investigators for her and others in her family to take polygraph tests regarding the disappearance. Trista Reynolds told the Bangor Daily News on Monday she’s been offering to take a lie detector test since the day […]