BEIJING ( AP) — Angry customers and gangs of scalpers threw eggs at Apple Inc.’s Beijing store today after the iPhone 4S launch there was canceled due to concerns over the crowd’s size. Apple reacted to the outburst by postponing iPhone 4S sales in its mainland China stores to protect customers and employees. The phone […]

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A Texas woman who suffocated her 6-year-old son in a New Hampshire motel room and left his body along a dirt road in Maine has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. Forty-two-year-old Julianne McCrery of Irving, Texas, spoke tearfully at her sentencing today, calling her son beautiful and brilliant. She […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon officials worry that outrage over a video purporting to depict Marines urinating on Taliban corpses will tarnish the reputation of the entire military. Some also fear it could undermine prospects for exploratory Afghan peace talks. After roundly condemning the Marines’ alleged behavior, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and top military leaders on […]

BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) — A homeless New York teenager who’s a national Intel science competition semifinalist has been flooded with attention and support. Samantha Garvey is one of 61 Long Island students who have a chance at the competition’s top prize of $100,000. Newsday reports that a day after her achievement became headline news, […]

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will ask Congress today for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press. Obama will call on Congress to give him a type of […]

HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A 13-year-old seventh-grade basketball player is taking 2,000 shots over eight days to raise money and honor the memory of his mother, who died of breast cancer. Liam Viviano of Hampton Academy is starting today with his first shots at halftime at the Winnacunnet High School girls’ basketball game. The last […]

FARMINGTON ( AP) — A Jay man has been indicted on several sex charges involving minors. A Franklin County grand jury on Thursday indicted 21- year-old Joshua Welch on one count of gross sexual assault and 10 counts of unlawful sexual contact against two children under age 14. The Sun Journal reports that Welch was […]

FARMINGTON ( AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Massachusetts man on a murder charge in connection with the fatal stabbing of an 81- year-old woman in Maine last summer. Juan Contreras of Waltham, Mass., has been held without bail since his arrest in November. Authorities say he stabbed Grace Burton 35 times inside […]

LEWISTON ( AP) — A Lewiston mission that provides clothing, free meals and a safe place for at-risk youth to do homework has been vandalized twice in the past week. Chris Pope, director of The Root Cellar, says a rock the size of a softball was thrown through a double-paned glass door in the rear […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Portland police are looking for an armed man who robbed a city credit union. Police say the man entered the University Credit Union just after 4 p.m. on Thursday with a gun, demanded cash from a teller, and fled with an undisclosed amount of money. There were several customers and employees inside […]