‘He was our dream’: Dad remembers missing Orono man found dead

Hermon Middle School quarter 4 honor roll

High honors Grade 8 DiFrederico, Ava R. Estes, Zoe E Hutchinson, Adelin E McClary, Grace K Miville, Halle C Nadeau, Jesse O Pinette, Anna-Reta C Smith, Elise D Grade 7 Bart, Olivia N Dube, Emery R Dunn, Lillian T Fournier, Kaylan E Gerry, Jacob P Kerswell, Ruby Mehrhoff, Gavin M Morin, Logan J Pinette, Harrison […]

US Senator warns of administration plan to hastily remove over 500 unaccompanied migrant children

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic U.S. senator warns the Trump administration is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing legal protections. It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of […]

Federal judge halts Trump’s election executive order seeking to create a federal voter list

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, sided with a coalition of nearly two dozen states that challenged […]

AI is plowing through the workplace. This new group wants to help people adapt and have jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) — America has been rushing into an artificial intelligence future without much of a plan to stop what could be catastrophic job losses. Critics warn of doomsday scenarios out of a sci-fi thriller, while backers say AI will generate so much new wealth that no one should worry too much about millions of […]

Man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife set to be ninth person executed this year in Florida

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife decades ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke for the 1992 stabbing death of his wife Karen. If carried out, […]