LOGAN, Ohio ( AP) — A family dispute ended when a man caring for his terminally ill wife apparently shot and killed her two sisters and his son before fatally shooting himself, authorities said. A cousin said the man was upset that the relatives were keeping him from spending time alone with his cancerstricken wife. […]

COLUMBIA, S. C. ( AP) — Columbia police looking for a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving have found a shovel and what appear to be bloody clothes and blankets. Search warrants show police went to 22- year- old Zinah Jennings’ home earlier this month after her stepfather told police he saw her in the […]

WASHINGTON WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is considering whether government regulators may still police the airwaves for curse words and other coarse content at a time when so many Americans have unregulated cable television, and the Internet is awash in easily accessible adult material. The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday in a First Amendment […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Suleiman al- Nahdi waits with dozens of other prisoners in a seemingly permanent state of limbo five years after he was cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay. “I wonder if the U.S. government wants to keep us here forever,” the 37-year-old al-Nahdi wrote in a recent letter to his lawyers. Open […]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. The sergeant saw the charred and mangled remains of a fellow Marine killed by a roadside bomb only moments before he instructed his squad to “shoot first, ask questions later” in what would become one of the Iraq war’s most horrific episodes of civilian deaths, military prosecutors say. Both the prosecution and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U. S. Department of Transportation has awarded nearly $ 3 million to the Maine Department of Transportation to repair or reconstruct federal aid highways and roads on federal land damaged during Tropical Storm Irene. The money was granted under the Federal Highway Administration’s Emergency Relief program. The department’s National Highway Traffic […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine police have seized nearly 1,000 prescription painkillers from a Portland woman they say was trying to sell them on the streets. Police say 23-year-old Brianna Roberts was ordered held on $20,000 property or $5,000 cash bail after her initial court appearance on Monday on a charge of trafficking Oxycodone. Maine drug […]

BIDDEFORD (AP) — A 19- year-old Biddeford man and a 20- year- old Wilton woman have died in unrelated car crashes in Maine. Authorities say 19-year-old Chaz Dorais was killed Sunday morning when the car he was a passenger in hit the garage of a home. The driver suffered injuries not considered life threatening. Police […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — The New England Board of Higher Education is honoring a Maine program that targets high school students who are undecided about higher education but who have the potential to succeed in college. The board says Early College for ME will be awarded its Maine State Merit Award at the10th annual New […]

HALLOWELL ( AP) — A nonprofit company is opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Hallowell. Wellness Connection of Maine plans an open house to mark the opening of its Hallowell facility today. It’s one of three dispensaries being prepared for opening by Wellness Connection in the coming months. The others are in Portland and Brewer. […]