The lawsuit asks a federal court in Austin to declare the Texas law unconstitutional.

From shampoo to school supplies, dog treats to dishware, the brand names that admit to using forever chemicals are ubiquitous.

The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo's false claims that mRNA coronavirus vaccines contaminate DNA imperils lives as respiratory viruses surge this winter.

The records included the depositions of several of Epstein's victims, many of whom have told their stories publicly previously.

Maine homeowners and businesses can access Department of Environmental Protection services to mitigate oil spills and systems at risk of leaking, state officials say.

Lancashire heelers are solidly built dogs that are shaped a bit like a downsized corgi, standing around 1 foot at the shoulder and weighing up to about 17 pounds. They need a job.

Suicide-prevention barriers at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge have been completed more than a decade after officials greenlighted a project to install stainless-steel mesh nets on both sides of the 1.7-mile bridge.

Ariana Tito, 18, is back in Maine after spending several weeks in jail on Rikers Island in New York City. She was arrested in Brooklyn after allegedly shooting a woman in Saco in November.

Last month the Colorado Supreme Court concluded Trump engaged in an insurrection before and during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and as a result could not appear on the state’s primary ballot.

The total is expected to increase when all damage reports are filed for representatives from federal and state emergency management agencies to review.

The Scandinavian bakery's owners also have a fine-dining restaurant, Elda, upstairs.

While impeachment of the secretary of state is highly unlikely, some Republican lawmakers said her decision to keep former president Donald Trump off Maine's primary ballot has energized Republican voters.

About 300 people were ordered out of the Maine State House because of the hoax bomb threat Wednesday afternoon, on the first day of a new legislative session.

Organizers expect to put the final construction design for the park out to bid next week, which means construction could begin this summer, if all goes according to plan.

Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi and Montana were among the states that evacuated statehouse offices or buildings.

One project, co-owned by the parent company of Central Maine Power, will be a 62-turbine wind farm 15 miles off the coast of Massachusetts.

The massive prisoner exchange followed other such deals earlier in the war, which is nearing the 2-year mark.

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Some also called for protecting Second Amendment rights as Maine lawmakers returned for a new session that is expected to focus on gun safety in the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston in October.

Federal and state regulators say the trackers will help them understand fishing patterns and protect right whales. Lobstermen say the devices violate their privacy rights.

The thieves took cash drawers from Coffee by Design and LFK in Portland, and Taco Trio and Buena Vista Filipino Market in South Portland, which shared images of the suspects on social media and asked people to provide tips.

The strike in Hezbollah's southern Beirut stronghold could cause the low-intensity fighting along the Lebanon border to boil over into all-out war.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for what appeared to be the deadliest militant attack to target Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution.

A new study by an international team led by evolutionary biologist Tim Waring says that humans are good at extracting resources from the Earth but struggle to cooperate on a scale necessary to fight worldwide environmental threats.

Michael Skakel is suing an investigator and the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, after he spent 11 years in prison.

The pianist and singer’s 1969 antiwar song 'Compared to What' sold more than 1 million copies.

The inauguration ceremony for Mike Morris drew more than 100 people Tuesday night to the City Hall Annex at 46 Front St.

The cause of the fire at a multi-unit apartment building on Route 302 remains under investigation.

Incoming elected officials urged the community to continue the strength, perseverance and unity it displayed following the October shooting to move the city forward.

Lawmakers will hold public hearings Wednesday afternoon on proposals to grant tribes exclusive access to all Internet gambling and to open the door for a tribal casino.

The indictment says a Qatari investor negotiated a multimillion-dollar investment in a real estate project planned by Fred Daibes, one of three businessmen charged, and the 70-year-old senator and his wife.

The debt doesn't appear to be a weight on the economy right now, but its path in the future might put at risk national security and major programs like Social Security.

The Maine Labor Relations Board concluded that an unnamed lieutenant in the Fire Marshal's Office made changes to mileage reimbursements and the way employees swap shifts without going through the collective bargaining process.

Kyle Desmarais, 42, raised a gun and took several steps toward an officer before police killed him in a shootout on Dec. 17, the footage from police body and dashcams shows.

In its Dec. 28 decision, the court ruled that the Maine Public Utilities Commission's approval of the special rate 'did not result in unjust, unreasonable or discriminatory rates.'

The damage was so great that it could not immediately be assessed. Japanese media reports said tens of thousands of homes were destroyed.

Republican leaders who criticized Shenna Bellows' decision said on Tuesday that they condemn any threats or use of violence.

The filing cites Scott Perry's role in trying to help stall the certification of the election by installing an acting attorney general who would be receptive to Trump’s false claims of election fraud.

Cote Noonan, 32, is scheduled to appear in federal court in Portland on Friday for a detention hearing.

Grants of up to $10,000 to replace equipment or lost supplies will be available through the fund created by the Retail Association of Maine and the Maine Grocers and Food Producers Association.

Nationally, the average number of daily requests shot up nearly tenfold, from about 25 in the eight months before the May 2022 Roe v. Wade leak to 247 after.

The population of North Atlantic right whales fell by about 25% from 2010 to 2020, and now numbers less than 360.

Officials with New Mexico’s largest electric utility say a proposed multibillion-dollar merger with Avangrid, a U.S. subsidiary of global energy giant Iberdrola, has been scuttled.

The former president said in a court filing Tuesday that Secretary of State Shenna Bellows doesn't have the authority to remove him from the ballot and 'acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner.'

Air defenses shot down all 10 of the Russian Kinzhal missiles, which can fly at 10 times the speed of sound, out of about 100 of various types that were launched, said Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's commander-in-chief.

A House committee announced Thursday it will investigate the policies and disciplinary procedures at Harvard, MIT and Penn.

The hacking of a municipal water authority in a small Pennsylvania town is prompting new warnings from U.S. security officials as the U.S. wrestles with how to harden water utilities against hackers.

His death could provoke major retaliation by Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militia.

Sheriff's deputies first made arrests at a residence in China Saturday before state police made several more Tuesday afternoon.

Liberal opposition leader Lee Jae-myung's party says he' recovering at an intensive care unit.

The city cleared its largest remaining homeless encampment Tuesday morning. City staff have said there are enough beds at the shelter for those living at the camp.

The pilot of a coast guard aircraft that was preparing to take off escaped but the 5 crew members died in the collision with a passenger jet.

Israel's onslaught in Gaza has been unprecedented in the century-old Mideast conflict, killing nearly 22,000 Palestinians and leveling large swaths of the tiny Mediterranean territory.

Lawmakers return to the State House on Wednesday for the start of the second regular session of the 131st Legislature.

Iran’s foray into the Red Sea a day after the U.S. action compounds a highly volatile situation in the channel.

Police provide few details but say there is no danger to the public.

Instead, he looked back on technological advancements in the nation’s court system, detailing developments from 19th-century quill pens to modern artificial intelligence.

A Bangor hospital appears to have delivered the state's first baby of the new year.