How Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is playing in Maine’s US Senate race

Clock tower above Rumford town hall hit by gunfire

Police are investigating a spate of shootings and stabbings over the past couple weeks.

Dolores Huerta's death sparks an outpouring from allies and admirers

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Dolores Huerta’s death on Wednesday provoked an outpouring of emotions from many who had worked with her on social causes and resonated far and wide among others inspired by her legacy. They shared stories about becoming public servants, volunteering and organizing within their own communities because of Huerta. Deanna Muñoz, founder […]

Passing truck sends SUV off Maine road and into a camper

The Subaru went off the road, hit a culvert, demolished a camper and came to a rest on its front grill perpendicular to the ground.

Alvin K. Hellerstein, a federal judge who handled Trump, Maduro and 9/11 cases, dies at 92

NEW YORK (AP) — Alvin K. Hellerstein, a Manhattan federal judge who presided over matters involving President Donald Trump, former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the 9/11 attacks during nearly three decades on the bench, has died. He was 92. Hellerstein died Wednesday, according to Edward Friedland, district executive for the Southern District of New […]

Lawsuit seeks to block ICE from hiding locations of detainees with final removal orders

Groups that provide legal services to immigrants filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the Trump administration’s new policy of hiding the locations of tens of thousands of detainees with final deportation orders. The policy, adopted suddenly last month to expedite deportations, interferes with immigration lawyers’ rights by making it difficult, and sometimes impossible, to […]