BATH Pending approval by the Planning Board, the city of Bath will partner with Hyde School to make improvements to a stormwater management system near the school. City officials deemed the step necessary before Hyde can build a new $ 3 million dormitory to replace a 1970sera residence hall on the private school’s High Street […]

PORTLAND Maine Sen. Susan Collins diverged from the GOP party line Thursday and voted for a Democratic plan to expand payroll tax cuts and fund them through increased taxes on millionaires. She was the only Republican to vote for the measure, which sought to levy a 3.5 percent surtax on incomes over $1 million to […]

BOWDOINHAM A Brunswick woman died at a Brunswick hospital Thursday night after she was struck by a truck as she attempted to cross Fisher Road on foot. Helen Koulouris, 58, of Brunswick died at Mid Coast Hospital shortly after being rushed there by ambulance, Maine State Police Trooper Jonathan Leach said in a news release. […]

BRUNSWICK Beneath his red-and-white Santa hat, George Edwards’ eyes sparkled just after 5:30 a.m. today as he held out a donation bucket to first-shift workers arriving at Bath Iron Works’ East Brunswick Manufacturing Facility. Most dropped in a few dollars, and some gave larger bills. Many also carried a monster truck or a game of […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eight in 10 pet owners have taken their animals to the vet in the past year, with an overall average expenditure of $505, according to a new AP-Petside.com poll. Sixty percent of those who took their pets to the vet spent $300 or less, but the average expenditure was boosted higher […]

MILLINOCKET Climbing Maine’s mile- high Mount Katahdin once is something to be proud of. Nelson Daigle’s done it 462 times, and the wiry, gray- haired 73- year- old retired paper worker aims to make it an even 500. “I thought I had a lot (of climbs) when I had 50,” Daigle said in his modest […]

The Trent Affair, a diplomatic crisis involving the doctrine of freedom of the seas that brought Britain and the United States to their closest point of possible hostilities early in the Civil War, reaches a boiling point this week 150 years ago. Word that the Union warship USS San Jacinto had stopped the neutral British […]

VERONA, N.J. Retirement communities may have their perks, but Beryl O’Connor says it would be tough to match the birthday surprise she got in her own backyard when she turned 80 this year. She was tending her garden when two little girls from next door — “my buddies,” she calls them — brought her a […]

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — At least 5,000 people have fled villages in central Nigeria at the heart of clashes between nomadic cattle herders and farmers, officials said today, as at least five people have died in the fighting. Authorities acknowledged there could be many more deaths in the violence hitting rural Benue and Nasarawa states […]