The federal judge’s ruling now faces an expedited appeal by the National Organization for Marriage.

BELL, Calif. – The City Council in this small, blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles was planning to ask three administrators whose salaries total more than $1.6 million to resign Thursday or face possible firing. Revelations about the pay in Bell has sparked anger in the city of fewer than 40,000. The officials include Chief Administrative […]

Peter Eglinton says he needs more time to spend with his family.

ATLANTA – A fungus usually found in the tropics has taken root in the Pacific Northwest and is blamed in the deaths of 15 people over the last six years, health officials said Thursday. At least 60 people have been sickened in four states by the fungus, cryptococcus gattii, which grows on or around trees. […]

If a consumer’s initial appeal is denied, an independent reviewer can issue a binding decision.

Claire Gobeil Leduc of Brunswick wants to learn as much as she can about Maine’s French because she is proud to be a Franco-American. When discussing herheritage with her father, Amadee Gobeil, he told her about the French name of the benefactor who helped to establish Bowdoin College. Leduc later learned from her sister, a […]