Maine’s U.S. Senator Susan Collins helped to christen – and then drive – a high-tech military boat built in Bath that is capable of being air-dropped from a cargo plane for special forces and rescue missions.

Vermont U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy is renewing his fascination with the Caped Crusader by appearing in a scene in the next Batman movie, ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ which will get its first public showing in Vermont.

Of the 35 million Americans expected to travel by car this Fourth of July, a good chunk will reach for technology before an old-time paper map.

He was a singer, an actor, a stand-up comic and once even a schoolteacher, but we knew him best for creating Mayberry, the Camelot in bib overalls on “The Andy Griffith Show.”

Michael Hein, 42, was sentenced to seven days in jail for willful violation of the Maine Clean Election Act.

A person familiar with the schedule says free agent guard Ray Allen – who the Boston Celtics hope to re-sign – will visit with LeBron James and the NBA champion Miami Heat on Thursday.