Originally when he restored the sleigh, painting it a new holiday shade of red, he was going to don the Santa suit himself and deliver a sleigh-full of goodies to a few deserving families needing some extra holiday cheer this year. But Matt Young’s idea soon drew unanticipated help from his girlfriend, Terina Reno, friends […]

New owners are stepping in today at Brunswick’s Chinese buffet, China Rose, 15 years after the restaurant got its start. Cuong Ly, the now former co-owner of the restaurant, said Thursday night that the sale of the trademark and transfer of the lease for the property was completed earlier in the day after around a […]

BRUNSWICK — The body of a man likely in his mid-40s was discovered Thursday afternoon along the railroad tracks between Bath Road and Route 1. Brunswick Police responded at 12:14 p.m. to the tracks between Merrymeeting Plaza and Discount Tire on Bath Road, where a man reported finding the body near a small campsite, Deputy […]

When the time came for Merriam- Webster to pick its top word of 2011, its editors decided they needed to be pragmatic. So they chose … pragmatic. The word, an adjective that means practical and logical, was looked up so often on Merriam- Webster’s online dictionary that the publisher says “pragmatic” was the pragmatic choice […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. You’ve heard of tech companies starting in a Silicon Valley garage. What about on a ship? That’s the idea being floated by a California startup that wants to dock a vessel off the coast to house foreign entrepreneurs who have dreams of creating the next Google but can’t get visas to work in […]

At the close of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln finds himself at war at home — and fending off a diplomatic crisis with Britain that threatens hostilities if not handled delicately. Though outrage lingers in London after the Union warship USS San Jacinto stopped the neutral British ship Trent east of Cuba on Nov. 8, 1861 […]

LONDON T here’s a beautifully groomed Mary in a blue party dress, a fashionable Joseph gazing adoringly at the baby, and wise men carrying a Faberge egg, a crystal bottle of perfume and a decorated skull. With only a few days to go until Christmas, a church group unveiled a poster recently to remind people […]

LEBANON, Mo. ( AP) — Walmart has pulled a batch of powdered infant formula from more than 3,000 of its stores nationwide after a newborn Missouri boy who was fed the formula died from what preliminary tests indicate was a rare bacterial infection, the retailer said. The government has not ordered a recall of the […]

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — The pilot of a small plane that crashed on a New Jersey highway and killed all five people on board told air traffic controllers he was accumulating ice as he ascended, federal investigators said Wednesday. The single- engine turboprop plane spiraled out of control, broke apart and crashed in the […]