Unusually intense haboob dust storms strike Phoenix twice this week

MaineHealth board votes to close midcoast hospital birthing unit

Officials said the roughly 130 annual births at the Damariscotta hospital are too few and they haven't been able to maintain stable staffing.

Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue

Meta said Thursday that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company, the latest in a series of disclosures about AI models going rogue. In recent weeks OpenAI and Anthropic also have described instances of AI models going beyond humans’ instructions to access the web and find […]

Lindsay Clancy sobs during murder trial as jurors view autopsy photos of her youngest child

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Lindsay Clancy sobbed uncontrollably Thursday as jurors viewed autopsy photos of the youngest of her three children who she strangled in 2023, until the court eventually had to take an unscheduled break. In the second week of her Massachusetts murder trial, prosecutors brought more friends, a former work colleague and her […]

Somesville Library to hold annual Books and Blueberries Sale

SOMESVILLE, Maine — The Somesville Library Association will hold its annual Books and Blueberries Sale on Saturday, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the library lawn at 1116 Main St. in Somesville.  The library’s largest fundraiser of the year will feature thousands of used books for sale, covering a wide range of […]

Judge denies request to stop vote on closing midcoast maternity ward

Justice Daniel Billings said the plaintiff, a pregnant Lincoln County woman, failed to demonstrate how she would be irreparably injured "simply by a vote to close the center."